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No Reduce: Jaywalkin'

Read "Jaywalkin'" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 31, 2012

When a trio of young Swiss jazz musicians visited New York in 2011, they weren't content just to follow the tourist trail or soak up the atmosphere in the Big Apple clubs. Before they left the city, saxophonist Christoph Irniger, guitarist Dave Gisler, and bassist Raffaele Bossard joined forces with drummer Nasheet Waits to record an ...

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Avishai Cohen: Triveni II

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 31, 2012

Facendo seguito a Introducing Triveni, il trombettista israeliano (ma di stanza a New York) Avishai Cohen si misura nuovamente con la dimensione del trio nel suo nuovo lavoro Triveni II: il risultato è un sincero e ben confezionato album di estrazione hard bop con contaminazioni contemporanee, alla cui registrazione hanno preso parte il contrabbassista e collaboratore ...

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Makaya McCraven: Split Decision

Read "Split Decision" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 31, 2012

Drummer Makaya McCraven supposedly “thinks about rhythm last" when composing, yet his music is all about rhythmic perspicacity. McCraven, who was born in Paris, spent his formative years in Massachusetts and eventually uprooted himself to move to Chicago, uses rhythm as a thickening agent, call to arms, catalyst and continual game changer, throughout this engaging debut. ...

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Bruce Hornsby: Red Hook Summer

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 31, 2012

È passato parecchio tempo dal 1986, quando la sua The Way It Is, ritratto ragionato dell'America anni '80, ha scalato le classifiche musicali americane e non. In questi anni, attraverso molteplici esperienze artistiche (da solista e con band come i The Range ed i The Noise Maker), Bruce Hornsby ha confermato il proprio ruolo di artista ...

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Darren Jay and the Delta Souls: Drink My Wine

Read "Drink My Wine" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
October 31, 2012

On any given weekend there are young musicians who are out to make their bones performing at local venues that will give them an opportunity to play their music. The genre of choice for the drinking crowd is usually blues-drenched covers, so that the audience can relate to and enjoy the show. Out of this scenario ...

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Marcello Tonolo Trio: Second Take

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 31, 2012

Second Take è il nuovo lavoro di Marcello Tonolo. Il pianista veneziano rivisita in maniera personale ed originale otto standards della canzone americana, con l'ausilio di Marco Privato al contrabbasso e Jimmy Weinstein alla batteria. Si parte con “It Could Happen to You" in una interpretazione originale in cui a fare la parte del leone sono ...

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Kalle Kalima & K-18: Out To Lynch

Read "Out To Lynch" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 31, 2012

Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima uses the cinema as a platform for riding a wave of abstract impressionism. As this album title intimates, the premise is based on eccentric film director David Lynch's body of work. The band pulls quite a few punches on a per-track basis, spanning cantankerous minimalism, free jazz, and levitating sub-themes amid some ...

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Van Morrison: Born to Sing - No Plan B

Read "Born to Sing - No Plan B" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 30, 2012

When Ray Charles died in 2004, he left only one artist (two if you count Willie Nelson) with a comparable musical vision and depth and breadth of creative reach: Van Morrison. For 40 years, Morrison has surveyed the spectrum of American music, just as Charles had. Morrison passed blues, soul, R&B, rock, country, jazz and folk ...

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Randy Klein's Two Duos: What's Next?

Read "What's Next?" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 30, 2012

Randy Klein launched his Two Duos series with Sunday Morning (Jazzheads, 2010), pairing the pianist up with trombonist Chris Washburne and tenor saxophonist Oleg Kireyev, but he leaves the horns behind for this follow-up. This time around, Klein turns to two different, but equally skilled string men. Guitarist Alex Skolnick, reborn as a jazz guitarist but ...

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Naked Truth: Ouroboros

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 30, 2012

A poco più di un anno dall'uscita di Shizaru, i Naked Truth di Lorenzo Feliciati ritornano in pista. Questa volta insieme al bassista e compositore romano, oltre ai già sperimentati Pat Mastelotto alla batteria e Roy Powell alle tastiere, c'è l'ottimo Graham Haynes alla cornetta che rimpiazza il trombettista di origine vietnamite Cuong Vu. Dicevamo ottimo ...