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Slumgum / Hugh Ragin: The Sky His Own
by Eyal Hareuveni
The third release of the young Los Angeles-based, Cal Arts-educated Slumgum attempts to expand its musical universe. This inventive quartet already defined its rich aesthetic, drawing from diverse influences like jazz, free improvisation, world music and modern classical music, stressing a vivid sense of exploration and adventure with close and supportive interplay. On The Sky His ...
Katherine Young's Pretty Monsters: Pretty Monsters
by Troy Collins
Rarely used in jazz and creative improvised music (except by individualists like Karen Borca), the unwieldy bassoon is commonly relegated to the role of a doubling horn, sparingly employed by eclectic multi-instrumentalists like Joseph Jarman and Yusef Lateef for its unusual tonal color. Brooklyn-based bassoonist Katherine Young transcends the instrument's reputation with a shrewd combination of ...
Samo Salamon Trio: Eleven Stories
by Dan Bilawsky
Guitarist Samo Salamon never treads on the same ground twice, but that doesn't mean his bands continually rotate personnel. A quick look at his recorded output, which includes approximately a dozen dates over the past decade, indicates that he does have a fondness for mixing, matching and mingling with different musical associates, but he also has ...
The Peggy Lee Band: Invitation
by Ted Harms
This is the fifth album, and second on Drip Audio, of Vancouver-based cellist Peggy Lee's ensemble. The Peggy Lee Band members are all solid players, and each has their turn taking the lead through this 11-song recording. The strong tunes occasionally evoke the feel and vibe of guitarist Bill Frisell's early '90s sextet classics This Land ...
Jacinta: Recycle Swing
by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira
Singer Jacinta's Recycle Swing is a tribute to Broadway's Golden Era, when cabaret music abounded and the likes of the Gershwins and Leonard Bernstein were getting increasingly popular. Indeed, Broadway had “the world on a string," and so does the jazz vocalist in this remarkable homage which includes, coincidently, the Ted Koehler/Harold Arlen masterpiece “I've Got ...
EA Silence: Cono di Ombra e Luce
by Francesca Odilia Bellino
Gli interni della Sinagoga di Ivrea che hanno accolto la registrazione delle otto tracce di “Cono di Ombra e Luce" dell'EA Silence--terzetto elettroacustico composto da Luca Cartolari, Mirio Scottii e Alessio Pisani-- effondono a distanza i loro giochi di ombra e luce che sembrano essere stati ispiratori, loro per primi, delle atmosfere di questo lavoro. Troppo ...
Matt Munisteri: Still Runnin' Round in the Wilderness - The Lost Music of Willard Robinson - Volume One
by AAJ Italy Staff
È probabile che la maggioranza dei lettori non abbia mai sentito nominare Willard Robinson, ma di sicuro avranno ascoltato almeno una versione di “A Cottage for Sale" o di “Old Folks," canzoni entrate a ragione nel Great American Songbook, grazie a interpretazioni memorabili di tutti i principali musicisti e cantanti di jazz. Robinson fu molto attivo ...
Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Muku
by Hrayr Attarian
The restlessly innovative husband and wife team of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii have produced some of the most intriguing and invigorating music to come out of Japan. Although rooted in the jazz idiom, their explorations are on universal themes, drawing upon a variety of inspirations. Their work is primarily improvised, but not in ...
The Peggy Lee Band: Invitation
by Troy Collins
Based in Vancouver, Canada since the early 1990s, Canadian cellist Peggy Lee has been steadily building an impressive discography. Invitation is the fifth album by her self-titled band, and the group's second release for Drip Audio. The record encompasses a broad stylistic range, revealing influences as disparate as folksy Americana and exotic Afro-pop--though Lee's harmonically sophisticated ...
Erik Jekabson: Anti-Mass
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Erik Jekabson likes to stroll through San Francisco's DeYoung Museum and imagine what the visual works there would sound like. In league with his Sting-tet ensemble, he explores the textures and colors, the harmonies and melodies of these artworks, translating them into sounds on Anti-Mass. Teaming with violin, viola, saxophone, bass and drum, and with ...
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