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Music for a While: Graces That Refrain

Read "Graces That Refrain" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 30, 2012

Five years have passed since Norwegian quintet Music for a While released its debut, Weill Variations (Grappa, 2007), a collection of fresh, outspoken versions of Kurt Weill songs. Now this dream team band--headed by cabaret diva Tora Augestad, with accordionist Stian Carstensen (leader of Farmers Market), trumpeter Mathias Eick (from Jaga Jazzist and a leader in ...

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Stefano Pastor: Songs

Read "Songs" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 30, 2012

Nell'ormai folta produzione discografica di Stefano Pastor, Songs per molti aspetti si ricollega a Chants edito nel 2009, le cui incisioni, sempre in solo, risalivano prevalentemente al settembre 2006. Tutti i brani di Songs sono stati invece registrati nel corso del 2010, salvo “Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" che appartiene alla medesima seduta del 2006. Nelle ...

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I.Overdrive Trio et Marcel Kanche: Interprètent Léo Ferré - Et vint un mec d’outre saison

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 30, 2012

Diciamo subito che la I puntata prima di Overdrive sta per Interstellar, per cui l'omaggio primario del trio che affianca Marcel Kanche in questa singolare operazione sull'opera di Léo Ferré è Syd Barrett. Un'altra precisazione, ancor più doverosa, riguarda la voce (regolarmente recitante, tranne un lieve cantilenare in “Tu penses à quoi?" e “A mon enterrement") ...

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Quartetto Terrestre: Secondo gradino

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 30, 2012

Alessandro Fedrigo è uno dei pochi specialisti della chitarra basso acustica che talvolta associa con effetti elettronici per ampliarne ulteriormente la ricchezza timbrica originaria. Curioso per natura, si muove tra jazz, musica sperimentale, elettronica, multimedialità con un particolare interesse per la composizione. In Secondo Gradino composizione e suono sono gli elementi attorno ai quali il quartetto ...

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Kyle Brenders Quartet: Offset

by Troy Collins
November 29, 2012

A former student of visionary composer Anthony Braxton, Canadian multi-instrumentalist Kyle Brenders subtly expands upon the idiomatic language of his former Wesleyan professor on Offset, the second album by his self-titled Quartet, following 2010's Karst. In addition to numerous other projects, Brenders engages his interest in the oeuvre of iconic soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy as a ...

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Gato Libre: Forever

Read "Forever" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 29, 2012

Innovative trumpeter Natsuki Tamura is a creative artist with a wide repertoire that draws as much from modern improvised music as it does jazz and world folk heritages. Often a key collaborator in wife/pianist Satoko Fujii' inimitable ensembles, he emerges as a leader of the unique quartet Gato Libre on its fifth release, Forever.

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Lars Bech Pilgaards Slowburn: Mammut

Read "Mammut" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 29, 2012

Danish guitarist Lars Bech Pilgaard's musical philosophy denies the existence of any genre or convention. His musical range encompasses free improv, avant-garde, Kraut rock, punkish energy, odd cinematic soundscapes, noise, and even fifties classics. Mammut, Pilgaard's debut as a leader with The Slowburn trio, attempts to find a common thread among this colorful sonic universe. Experienced ...

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The Greg Abate Quartet Featuring Phil Woods: The Greg Abate Quintet Featuring Phil Woods

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by Edward Blanco
November 29, 2012

Led by reed man, educator and Conn-Selmer clinician Greg Abate, The Greg Abate Quintet Featuring Phil Woods documents an electrifying set of bebop, straight-ahead and Latin styles featuring legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods as its marquee player. The quintet burns through an exciting ten-piece repertoire of Abate originals complimented by contributions from both Woods and pianist ...

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Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio: Jump Up

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by AAJ Italy Staff
November 29, 2012

Jump Up è un magnifico esempio di energia e di forza espressiva. Registrato il 30 agosto del 1980 al festival di Willisau, originariamente venne pubblicato su vinile nel 1981. Siamo lontani dalla stagione in cui la coppia Lyons - Murray suonava in trio con Cecil Taylor (e, assieme a Taylor, suonò anche con Albert Ayler, a ...

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Jacob Anderskov: Granular Alchemy

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 29, 2012

Il giovane pianista e compositore danese Jacob Anderskov è qui alla testa di un lussureggiante quartetto per il resto tutto a stelle e strisce, con Chris Speed, Michael Formanek e Gerald Cleaver, che nell'iniziale “Sediments" ci propone un jazz avanzato, piuttosto diretto, leggibile, ma al tempo stesso elegante, pur con qualche tramatura intestina più increspata e ...