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Rick Stone Trio: Fractals

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il chitarrista americano Rick Stone divide il suo tempo fra didattica e concerti in area newyorkese. Dopo l'album Samba de Novembre, uscito nel 2004, si prende un bel po' di tempo di riflessione per giungere a questo Fractals che lo vede guidare un bel trio con il bassista Marco Panascia e il batterista Tom Pollard, ottimi ...

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Michael Neff Group feat. Marie Malou: Hidden Stories

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Quella di Michael Neff è una ricetta stilistica particolare, che unisce mainstream jazz, nelle melodie e in alcuni atteggiamenti formali, sprazzi di attualità hip-hop tradotti dalla voce di Marie Malou, inserti dal carattere rock, vedi la chitarra affilata di Andi Schnoz. Hidden Stories vive di questi felici contrasti, che nel breve volgere dei primi tre brani ...

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Animation: Transparent Heart

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by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Bob Belden is a sort of jazz renaissance man. He's worn many hats in his long career: producer, arranger, composer and reeds player, a combination of roles for which there are few parallels in the business.Transparent Heart highlights Belden the bandleader, the third release by his group, Animation. This is an all-new lineup for ...

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Sharp Radway: Hymns And Things (Introspection And Reflection)

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by Dan Bilawsky

All forms of jazz are a means of artistic personalization, but gospel jazz may be the ultimate form of individualized musical expression for those who believe. It serves as an aural representation of the individual communing with a higher power, and giving thanks. A broad yet set repertoire often binds gospel jazz projects and artists together, ...

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Ferenc Nemeth: Triumph

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by Hrayr Attarian

Ferenc Nemeth bursts onto the jazz scene with his second release as a leader. Triumph is the follow-up to his lyrical, more reserved debut Night Songs(Dreamers Collective 2007), and finds the Hungarian-born drummer in the company of a superb quartet including his boss in the Gilfema trio, guitarist Lionel Loueke. Where Night Songs ...

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Dom Minasi Septet: The Bird, the Girl and the Donkey II

Read "The Bird, the Girl and the Donkey II" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Following the successful realization of the powerful, free jazz collective headed by Dom Minasi on The Bird, The Girl And The Donkey (Re:konstruKt, 2010), the guitarist decided to expand his collective from a quintet to a septet. He kept the same attitude: intense, muscular and fiery playing from the first second till the last, but with ...

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Yves Theiler Trio: Out of the Box

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Dopo alcuni anni di collaborazione dal vivo, il trio del pianista zurighese Yves Theiler presenta il CD d'esordio. Questa formazione composta da tre giovani musicisti svizzeri è sostanzialmente paritetica, anche se le composizioni sono tutte a firma del pianista. Il quale senza dubbio guida la formazione e ne impronta il suono, senza però far scomparire i ...

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Dan Block: Duality

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Sembra un album manifesto, questo del sassofonista Dan Block, come i Duets di Lee Konitz con musicisti dall'origine musicale disparata, da Ray Nance a Karl Berger. Block si diverte allo stesso modo sia che suoni standards, originals o la musica di Dimitri Shostakovich. Impressionante quello che riesce a fare! Si parte con uno standard di Jerome ...

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John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension: Now Here This

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Ci sono diversi aspetti interessanti, e altri meno, in Now Here This, la nuova uscita dei 4th Dimension di John McLaughlin a due anni dal precedente To the One, nel quale figurava il batterista Mark Mondesir oggi sostituito dall'indiano Ranjit Barot. La band è una realtà tecnicamente formidabile e la sua forza espressiva lascia il segno ...

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The Fish: Moon Fish

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il trio francese The Fish assembla personalità molto eccentriche del panorama improvvisativo d'oltralpe per formazione personale ed eterogeneità di interessi, due delle quali, il contraltista Jean-Luc Guionnet ed il contrabbassista Benjamin Duboc, suonano insieme nel quintetto denominato Hubbub. The Fish aveva già dato prova della sua travolgente carica energetica nel doppio Live at Olimpic Cafè & ...


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