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Markus Burger / Joe LaBarbera / Bob Magnusson: Accidental Tourists: The L.A. Sessions

Read "Accidental Tourists: The L.A. Sessions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 29, 2012

Sometimes a definite connect exists between cover art and the music. German-born pianist Markus Burger's Accidental Tourists: The L.A. Sessions features a glossy cover photo full of reflections and right angle geometry, a sleek car with rounded contours. The music on this trio offering has a well-crafted geometry of its own, and a bright sheen brought ...

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Ornette Coleman: The Music of Ornette Coleman / Skies of America

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 29, 2012

Questa nuova ristampa abbina due lavori centrali nel percorso dell'Ornette Coleman compositore come The Music of Ornette Coleman e il più celebre Skies Of America e ci dà l'opportunità di riflettere nuovamente su questo versante dell'attività del musicista. The Music of Ornette Coleman esce originariamente nel 1967 [anno in cui il musicista riceve anche una prestigiosa ...

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Alisha's Quartet: Along for the Ride

Read "Along for the Ride" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 29, 2012

Alisha Pattillo's tenor saxophone case sports an impressive variety of destination stickers, real and metaphorical, where the young artist has visited in her life. Anglo-Australian, Patillo was raised in Singapore and proceeded to woodshed throughout Southeast Asia before receiving a first-rate schooling at Australia's Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, majoring in jazz saxophone and education ...

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The Clarinet Trio: 4

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 29, 2012

Sono pochi i trii di clarinetti nella storia del jazz e questo probabilmente anche perché lo strumento più basso della famiglia è entrato con forza nella storia del jazz solo negli anni Sessanta, grazie a Dolphy. Non sembra una caso quindi che questo trio tedesco voglia ricollegare tradizione europea del primo Novecento, jazz astratto e musica ...

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John Butcher: Bell Trove Spools

Read "Bell Trove Spools" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 29, 2012

British saxophonist John Butcher is one of the most innovative and influential saxophonists to emerge in recent decades. Butcher introduced a new conception of the saxophone--not just a horn instrument but a resonant metallic tube in which the properties of air moving through are investigated in relation to amplification devices as a microphone positioned inside the ...

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Manu Katche: Manu Katche

Read "Manu Katche" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 29, 2012

Since joining ECM for Neighbourhood (2005), Manu Katché has carved out a very specific niche for himself at a label whose purview continues to broaden--with this French-Ivorian drummer, perhaps surprisingly so. Contemporary? Yes, Katché has fashioned a nearly four-decade career as a superb groove-meister, whether in the rock world with artists Sting or Peter Gabriel, or ...

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Tianna Hall and the Mexico City Jazz Trio: Two for the Road

Read "Two for the Road" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 28, 2012

Tianna Hall's fifth recording, Two For The Road, and her first since Never Let Me Go (Blue Bamboo, 2011), continues to document the singer's evolution within the mainstream of jazz vocals. Thoroughly trained in the vocal arts at the University of Houston, Hall has progressively refined her smart and sexy delivery with each recording. Hall has ...

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Elina Duni Quartet: Matane Malit

Read "Matane Malit" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 28, 2012

There was a time when jazz musicians were commonly recruited to play on pop records, because their purview was so broad that they could mold themselves into any context. Elina Duni's music may not be jazz by conventional definition, but its improvisational spirit clearly occupies the broader “jazz state of mind" to which the Albanian-born/raised and ...

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Matthew Silberman: Questionable Creatures

Read "Questionable Creatures" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 28, 2012

The concept of straight-line status quo and normalcy powers plenty of artists along their journey of creation, but saxophonist/composer Matthew Silberman prefers the not-so-normal. The Salvador Dali-esque artwork that accompanies his album, and the population of questionable musical creatures that inhabit his world, are easy-to-read signs that point to a surrealist streak in Silberman's work. But, ...

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The Opposite: In Action

Read "In Action" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 28, 2012

The Opposite investigates improvisation and interplay through a collective group sound and open approach, assimilating elements of rock and Indian, African and Cuban musical traditions. In Sction documents this Swedish sextet live on a Swedish club tour in 2011. The live setting enable The Opposite to emphasize its formative influences, including early fusion bands like Weather ...