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Lawrence English: For/Not for John Cage

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 25, 2012

Il centenario di Cage sembra ispirare incessanti progetti, sia dal vivo che su disco. Il compositore australiano Lawrence English si aggiunge alla lista con questa serie di otto composizioni ispirate - a vario titolo - dal musicista statunitense. Punto di partenza è stata una nuova “versione" di un lavoro come One11 [film senza soggetto con istruzioni ...

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Medeski, Martin & Wood: Free Magic: Live

Read "Free Magic: Live" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 25, 2012

Free Magic: Live is the first release of by trio Medeski Martin & Wood from its third decade of existence. Maybe I should repeat that. This disc is by a jazz band that has remained intact for more than 21 years. Like a family, the trio has born musical genres, specifically the infamous jamband phenomena, matured, ...

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Cowboys from Hell: Big Fish

Read "Big Fish" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 25, 2012

Ascoltando questo Big Fish del trio Cowboys from Hell potrebbe venire in mente una parodia del titolo di uno dei celebri libri di Ian Fleming dedicati alla saga di James Bond: “Dalla Svizzera con Furore". Infatti i tre ragazzi che compongono il gruppo cercano di sbriciolare le regole convenzionali associate ad un trio con sax, basso ...

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Lua Hadar with Twist: Like A Bridge

Read "Like A Bridge" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
October 25, 2012

Singer Lua Hadar her band Twist have aptly come up with Like a Bridge, a bold, worldly musical venture with multiple lingual selections and styles. Hadar's grasp of various languages and vernaculars is vast, singing in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian and Malagasy. What is more impressive is her command of each of the seven ...

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Ed Cherry: It's All Good

Read "It's All Good" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 24, 2012

Guitarist Ed Cherry is best known for his lengthy, decade-plus tenure with trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie, but his work with another heavyweight of a different ilk--organist Big John Patton--is a more obvious influence on It's All Good. Cherry played the important role of Patton's guitar-playing foil during some of the legend's '90s comeback sessions and he ...

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Barb Jungr: Stockport to Memphis

Read "Stockport to Memphis" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
October 24, 2012

Since her breakthrough Chanson: The Space in Between (Linn, 2000), vocalist Barb Jungr has mainly released albums of songs by other people. Several have focused on the work of one performer, notably Every Grain of Sand (Linn, 2002), consisting of Bob Dylan songs, the Elvis Presley tribute Love Me Tender (Linn, 2005) and Just Like a ...

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George Schuller: Listen Both Ways

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2012

"Monkianesimo postmoderno": si potrebbe definire così la vena compositiva di George Schuller, messa in evidenza dal suo ultimo CD Listen Both Ways. E' il terzo disco che il batterista di stanza a Brooklyn pubblica alla guida del suo quintetto Circle Wide. Dopo i lavori dedicati alla musica del primo Davis elettrico -quello più sperimentale- e del ...

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Nate Radley: The Big Eyes

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2012

"Quand'ero giovane ero ossessionato dalla musica di Jimi Hendrix ed Eric Clapton" dice il chitarrista statunitense, una delle figure emergenti nella scena di New York. In questo debutto da leader, a capo un quintetto dal brioso respiro ritmico, non troviamo però incursioni nel rock ma una solida adesione a modelli jazzistici. Nate Radley evidenzia infatti uno ...

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Janel & Anthony: Where Is Home

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2012

Non ricordiamo altri esempi di album in duo con violoncello e chitarra, anche se, vista la proliferazione ormai incontrollabile di autoproduzioni favorite dall'uso sempre più frequente di tecniche low cost di produzione musicale, non possiamo certo escludere questa possibilità. In questo caso la violoncellista Janel Leppin e il chitarrista Anthony Pirog trovano il giusto supporto nella ...

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Julian Vaughn: Breakthough

Read "Breakthough" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
October 24, 2012

Within the first 30 seconds of the stomping “On Your Feet," the lead-off track on Breakthrough, it's hard not to think, “Darned if this guy doesn't sound just like Wayman Tisdale." Hopefully Julian Vaughn will take the comparison as a compliment because his “lead bass" playing style is eerily reminiscent of Tisdale, who passed away in ...