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Roman Tulei Trio: Inspiration
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inspiration è il nuovo album del Roman Tulei Tri in cui il pianista svizzero, con la complicità del batterista Tobias Friedli e del contrabbassista Lorenz Beyeler affronta nove composizioni originali piuttosto diversificate, che vanno dalla solare “City of Searches" agli up-tempo “E-Atmosphere" e “Mr. Johns" e all'intimismo di “Requiem" in cui Tule crea un'atmosfera spirituale e ...
Claudio Scolari: Synthesis
by Eyal Hareuveni
Synthesis unites two Italian drummers-the leader, Claudio Scolari, an educator whose background is in classical music, and the younger Daniele Cavalca. Both complement many other instruments, including Scolari's son, trumpeter Simone Scolari, for a musical journey that seeks to find new melodic textures. This project continues the work of the trio that began on Colors of ...
Randy Crawford and Joe Sample: Live
by Jeff Winbush
It's a slight exaggeration to say that keyboardist Joe Sample rescued Randy Crawford from pop music limbo, but it's not too far from the truth. Crawford is among the most distinct vocalists working, but her discography is riddled with over-arranged and over-produced disappointments. One of her finest moments remains when The Crusaders dropped all 11 minutes ...
Wadada Leo Smith / Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors
by John Sharpe
There is a natural fit between drums and trumpet. It stretches back all the way into prehistory, with the shamanistic combination of animal horns and percussive devices, persisting up until the early twentieth century in military drum and bugle corps who passed signals and directed troop movement. That synergy continues to bear artistic fruit to the ...
Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters: Urban Nightingale
by Dan McClenaghan
Chad McCullough, with one CD under his own name--the outstanding Dark Wood, Dark Water (Origin Records, 2009)--has also contributed his distinctive voice to recordings by the Kora Band and Tunnel Six, all under the Origin Records banners. But the Seattle-based trumpeter must have a European sensibility; his finest work to date has been in teaming, as ...
Lean Left: Live at Café Oto
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per chi non sapesse chi milita nei Lean Left [ma gli appassionati di avant-jazz lo sanno molto bene], il disco specifica già in copertina: “The Ex guitars meet Nilssen- Love/Vandermark Duo". Si incontrano/scontrano il collaudato duo sax/batteria composto da Ken Vandermark [al clarinetto oltre che al tenore] e il sempre più fenomenale Paal Nilssen-Love con i ...
Sleeping in Vilna: Why Waste Time
by Eyal Hareuveni
This transnational quartet blends poetry with intriguing, all-improvised sonic textures. On the poetry side are vocalist and hip-hop artist Mike Ladd, who worked with pianist Vijay Iyer on the staged projects In What Language and Still Life with Commentator (Pi, 2004 and 2007), and clarinetist Carol Robinson, who has recorded music from such experimental composers as ...
Virginia Mayhew: Mary Lou Williams - The Next 100 Years
by AAJ Italy Staff
Registrato nel dicembre 2010, a cent'anni dalla nascita di Mary Lou Williams, questo concept album di Virginia Mayhew celebra la grande pianista, compositrice e arrangiatrice, forse la più grande del jazz assieme a Carla Bley, Lil Hardin e pochissime altre. La versatile sassofonista (poco nota in Italia ma attiva professionalmente a New York dalla fine degli ...
James Luther Dickinson/North Mississippi Allstars: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone
by Doug Collette
The music of I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone is as ghostly as the black and white cover photo of its principal. The North Mississippi Allstars provides appropriately earthy accompaniment to a front man who commands the spotlight in larger-than-life fashion.A little background helps enhance the focus on the portrait provided by this album, ...
Michael Formanek: Small Places
by AAJ Italy Staff
A due anni da The Rub and Spare Change , sempre su ECM, ecco la nuova fatica di quell'autentica all stars che è il quartetto di Michael Formanek. Le attese, anche stavolta, non vanno certo deluse. I due brani iniziali, molto geometrici, per così dire appuntiti, sembrano in verità risentire qua e là di un minimo ...
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