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Devin Gray: Dirigo Rataplan
by Dave Wayne
In today's crowded jazz market, it's an achievement to come up with a signature group sound. And yet, this is just one of the wonderful things immediately apparent on Devin Gray's Dirigo Rataplan. An amazing percussionist, Gray's stunningly detailed playing sounds like a cross between Fritz Hauser and Roy Haynes.He flashes some serious compositional ...
Jana Herzen: Passion Of A Lonely Heart
by Dan Bilawsky
Numerous artists, both famous and relatively obscure, have found a recording home on the Motéma Music imprint. Every musician on the roster, from pianist extraordinaire Monty Alexander and veteran bassist Rufus Reid to newcomer-turned-vocal star Gregory Porter, has benefited from head honcho Jana Herzen's attention to detail, tireless promotional efforts and label largesse; every artist, that ...
Jason Robinson: Tiresian Symmetry
by Eyal Hareuveni
Composer and reed player Jason Robinson tends to weave his musical projects with multiple and overlapping narrative layers, and Tiresian Symmetry is no different. It is more ambitious than his previous large ensemble project, The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform, 2010), but still draws inspiration from Greek mythology. This time he was inspired by the mythical ...
Leni Stern: Smoke, No Fire
by James Nadal
In March, 2012, a military coup overthrew the government in the western African nation of Mali, disrupting life for the civilian population--repetitively the victims in such situations of political turmoil. Guitarist Leni Stern was living in Mali at the time of the coup, and though she could have departed the country, she decided to stay and ...
Paul Dunmall - Tony Bianco: Thank You to John Coltrane
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sessantuno minuti e rotti dedicati alla memoria di uno dei numi tutelari della musica afro-americana. Titolari di questa incisione sono Paul Dunmall e Tony Bianco. Cominciamo subito con un accenno aneddotico: sembra persino ovvio che il disco di riferimento - quando si parla di Coltrane sperimentale in duo - sia il fondamentale Interstellar Space che il ...
Michael Blake: In the Grand Scheme of Things
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel corso della sua carriera artistica Michael Blake si è distinto per la ricerca di percorsi musicali alternativi al mainstream: la sua è da sempre una musica meticcia che pur affondando le proprie radici nella tradizione jazzistica assimila componenti provenienti dal rock, dal country ma anche dal gospel o dal soul... In the Grand Scheme of ...
Jeremy Siskind: Finger-Songwriter
by AAJ Italy Staff
A due anni dal cd d'esordio Simple Songs, Jeremy Siskind conferma le coordinate di fondo della sua estetica in un quadro espressivo più organico e maturo. In questo lavoro ritroviamo la propensione verso climi cantabili, spesso coniugati alla forma canzone ma il progetto è finalmente coerente e caratterizzato da reminiscenze tradizionali (il jazz pre-boppistico, il song ...
Fischermanns Orchestra: Conducting Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Attiva a Lucerna dal 2007, la Fischermanns Orchestra evidenzia di primo acchito un approccio decisamente free al linguaggio per grande organico, pur nel rispetto di un tangibilissimo disegno architettonico-strutturale. Tutto ciò spicca in particolare nel trittico di brani che apre il CD, ma si sviluppa poi anche lungo tutt'altre coordinate. Per esempio abbandonando l'opulenza, la pienezza, ...
GoGo Penguin: Fanfares
by Bruce Lindsay
Jazz musicians are some of the most musically imaginative souls on the planet, but their imaginations often desert them when it's time to choose a band name. So thanks must go to whoever decided to name this group GoGo Penguin: it's a suitably imaginative name for a trio full of imaginative music. Three young men who ...
Joe Gilman: Relativity
by Dan Bilawsky
M.C. Escher captured the imagination of the world with his perspective-altering artwork. Escher's mind's eye and eye's mind challenged people to see things differently, and pianist Joe Gilman has found inspiration in his brilliant work. Gilman, who previously delved into the music-inspired-by-art realm on Americanvas (Capri, 2010), uses Escher's creations as inspirational seeds and guiding forces ...
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