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Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors
by Mark Corroto
The Theology of the Body is an integrated vision of the human person as body, soul, and spirit. Attending the church of jazz, this amalgamation can be best illustrated+ with improvisation and, if so, this duo of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo is a sacred meeting.Following the previous releases of Smith's ...
Christian Pruvost: Ipteravox
by Eyal Hareuveni
Within the small cult of trumpeters who reinvent the sonic range of the trumpet-beginning with the late Bill Dixon, continuing with Americans Nate Wooley and Peter Evans, Europeans Franz Hautzinger and Birgit Uhler and Lebanese Mazen Kerbaj-underrated French trumpeter Christian Pruvost (a member of the Muzzix musicians collective based in Lille)) is still a rare bird. ...
Gerardo Núñez: Travesía
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli otto brani di Travesía si ispirano alla storia di Ahmed e Khaleb, due profughi africani amici di Gerardo Núñez, conosciuti dopo uno sbarco clandestino e che in seguito hanno accompagnato il chitarrista durante i suoi concerti, aiutandolo nell'organizzazione. Una vicenda raccontata attraverso le vibranti e coinvolgenti atmosfere del flamenco, che pervadono l'intera registrazione, fatto salvo ...
Didier Lasserre - Joel Grip - Niklas Barno: Can't Stop Snusing
by AAJ Italy Staff
Can't Stop Snusing, titolo che fa riferimento allo Snus, tabacco da masticare assai diffuso in Svezia, è album da maneggiare con attenzione, per evitare che un'assunzione scriteriata della musica contenuta, possa scatenare una sventagliata di controindicazioni sull'incauto ascoltatore. Il trio franco-svedese si muove per oltre cinquanta minuti nei territori della libera improvvisazione assoluta, ciascuno dei protagonisti ...
Michael Formanek: Small Places
by Hrayr Attarian
Bassist Michael Formanek's second release on ECM, Small Places, is an impassioned and gratifying album. Working with the same quartet as his first, The Rub and Spare Change (ECM, 2010), the music here has crystallized and matured further as the familiarity and camaraderie among the artists has grown. Although The Rub was freer ...
John Yao: In The Now
by Franz A. Matzner
Trombonist John Yao's debut as a leader In the Now successfully fuses contemporary flavors and more traditional jazz idioms to produce a solid, hip collection of tunes bounding with vitality and fun.A protégé of Luis Bonilla, Yao reflects that trombonist's thoughtful compositional style, crafting an album of intelligently constructed pieces that give his powerful ...
Pharez Whitted: For The People
by Dan Bilawsky
Indianapolis-born trumpeter Pharez Whitted has kept a low profile in the new millennium. He's busied himself with teaching, attending to his duties as Director of Jazz Studies at Chicago State University, performing live and appearing as a sideman on a scant number of under-the-radar albums, but none of this has helped to boost his reputation beyond ...
New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anche i musicisti più eclettici e instabili hanno una loro intima poetica. Ecco scoperta quella di Jamie Saft, tastierista, manipolatore sonoro, produttore. Onnivoro in quanto a frequentazioni e come performer--dalla fucina Tzadik all'heavy metal, dal jazz progressivo alla musica contemporanea di derivazione europea--Saft sembra confessarsi intimamente con questo New Zion Trio, completato da Larry Grenadier al ...
Alexandra Grimal: Andromeda
by AAJ Italy Staff
Andromeda è disco notturno, e non poteva essere diversamente visto che a costellazioni e ad immagini di esplorazioni celesti fa riferimento e prende spunto. Notturno per il senso di mistero che pervade la musica, per il suo evocare immagini attraverso una narrazione allusiva piuttosto che descrittiva, per lo stupore che suscita nei confronti dell'infinito e del ...
Elise Caron / Edward Perraud: Bitter Sweets
by Eyal Hareuveni
The musical meeting of French vocalist Elise Caron and fellow countryman, drummer Edward Perraud, is a match made in heaven. Both are energetic free spirits, boundless in their sonic articulations, inventive and adventurous. Caron, with an infinite vocal range, dresses her voice in whatever character that comes to her mind--spoiled diva, hyperactive child, conspiring geisha, tempting ...
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