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Jon Irabagon - Mike Pride - Mick Barr: I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze

Read "I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Ci ha preso gusto Jon Irabagon. E quella che fino a ieri dava l'impressione di essere una deviazione dalla strada maestra, un uno-due irripetibile destinato, fatalmente e fisiologicamente, a non avere seguito, al terzo rilancio acquisisce un diverso spessore. Il filone dedicato alle imprese titaniche si era aperto nel 2009 con I Don't Hear Nothin' But ...

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Iiro Rantala: My History Of Jazz

Read "My History Of Jazz" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

It is perhaps an odd history of jazz that opens and closes with a composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, but My History Of Jazz is a very personal history, the history of Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala. His previous album, Lost Heroes (ACT Music, 2011), was a solo piano recording; full of mesmerizingly beautiful music, it was ...

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Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Quartet: Voyagers

Read "Voyagers" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Austrian vocalist/trumpeter Michaela Rabitsch and guitarist Robert Pawlik have fronted a quartet and performed as a duo for the past 15 years, releasing three CDs ahead of the present Voyagers. Concentrating on original compositions that lean in a commercial-popular direction, the pair has received a good deal of buzz. The majority of Voyagers is prepared very ...

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Sean Conly / Michael Attias: Think Shadow

Read "Think Shadow" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

This is an intimate meeting between old friends. Bassist Sean Conlyand Michäel Attias who collaborated before on Conly's Re: Action (Clean Feed, 2012) and on Attias' recent Spun Tree (Clean Feed, 2012). But this recording features both musicians who work now as the Think Shadow duo. Here, they improvise on the spot, creating melody, rhythm, and ...

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Anglagard: Viljans Oga

Read "Viljans Oga" reviewed by Alex Franquelli

by Alex Franquelli

Complexity can sometimes be considered a form of art in itself and it seldom follows simplicity. Complexity is also impressionism in its purest form. Its faithful depiction of the present may be deemed naïve and unsophisticated, but it remains an unfiltered, pure representation of the being. Less than 20 years ago, Änglagård's albums, Hybris (Mellotronen, 1992) ...

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Harry Allen / Scott Hamilton: ‘Round Midnight

Read "‘Round Midnight" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Johannes Brahms was called “the keeper of the flame" for Beethoven. Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton are the same keepers for a tenor tradition that existed from the swing era through hard bop. The pair champions a sound and method established by Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester Young: a broad, dense tone, both ...

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Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Legends Live

Read "Legends Live" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The Jazzhaus label has, on its hands, an archive of some 1600 audio and more than 350 video recordings taken from live radio and T.V. broadcasts in post-World War II Germany, featuring some of the most vital jazz artists of the time. These recordings are now being released. The first batch of the Legends Live series ...

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Tommy Bolin: The Definitive Teaser Collector’s Edition

Read "The Definitive Teaser Collector’s Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Guitarist Tommy Bolin elevated the role of journeyman to a high art. After leaving his home in Colorado, where he played with Energy and Zephyr, he worked with fusion drummers Billy Cobham and Alphonse Mouzon, joined a post-Joe Walsh James Gang, and went on to Deep Purple when Richie Blackmore left the group. All of this ...

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Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

Read "Ancestors" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The title of this remarkable album says it all. American trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo are two forefathers of modern jazz, innovative musicians who redefined the practices of their instruments and the connections between the Afro-American, African and European jazz legacies-- creative composers and esteemed bandleaders for nearly five decades and ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Arabic Violin Bass Trio: Suite In Four Movements

Read "Arabic Violin Bass Trio: Suite In Four Movements" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Australia-based, Israeli composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid continues his noble endeavor to integrate classical Arabic music, Arabic-influenced Jewish music and contemporary Western classical music, all performed with enough room for improvisation, into a new tradition. Yedid began to work on this inclusive, universal musical concept previously with the extended suite Oud Bass Piano Trio (Between the ...


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