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Elephant9: Atlantis

by John Kelman
October 16, 2012

Ever a collective, Elephant9's Atlantis represents the Norwegian power trio's most egalitarian outing yet. 2008's Dodovoodoo and 2010's Walk the Nile were, for the most part, dominated compositionally by keyboardist and Supersilent/Humcrush coconspirator Ståle Storløkken. Atlantis is more evenly split between Storløkken's four tracks to bassist Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen's three, but most importantly demonstrates a continued ...

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Ablaye Cissoko - Volker Goetze: Amanké Dionti

Read "Amanké Dionti" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 16, 2012

Cosa potrebbero avere in comune un suonatore di kora senegalese, Ablaye Cissoko, e un trombettista tedesco, Volker Goetze? La risposta non è di sicuro in una sconceria d'osteria né in uno sproloquio da luogo comune. Certo è che fanno una bella e singolare coppia i due. Hanno iniziato questo viaggio transcontinentale da almeno una decina d'anni ...

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Anat Cohen: Claroscuro

Read "Claroscuro" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 16, 2012

Art begets art on Anat Cohen's Claroscuro. The Israeli-born, New York-based multi-reedist leaves the confines of Benny Goodman's world behind, following her clarinet-only sojourn into king of swing territory, Clarinetwork: Live At The Village Vanguard (Anzic, 2010), with a wide-ranging musical treatise on the balance between light and dark. Cohen addresses each end of the color ...

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No Reduce: Jaywalkin'

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by AAJ Italy Staff
October 16, 2012

No Reduce nasce dall'incontro di tre giovani improvvisatori svizzeri ed un affermato batterista statunitense. Il luogo è, naturalmente, New York, città dove i tre svizzeri hanno soggiornato per qualche tempo. La musica, scritta durante la primavera del 2011, è quella che si ascolta in questo Jaywalkin. L'etichetta è la nWog Records, neonata label del trombonista tedesco ...

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Erik Honore and Greta Aagre: Year of the Bullet

Read "Year of the Bullet" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
October 16, 2012

Impressive in its reach and warmth, the music of keyboardist/sampler/lyricist Erik Honoré and vocalist Greta Aagre on Year of the Bullet feels like a perfect brushstroke of sound calligraphy, full of cinematic passages that are designed to evoke a broad emotional spectrum. This is the duo's third release and first signed under their names--previously, they were ...

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The Jazz Convention: Sound Briefing

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 16, 2012

Sound Briefing è un ottimo album, suonato magnificamente da musicisti affiatati e preparati sotto ogni aspetto, che però non aggiunge granchè di nuovo a quello che già sappiamo, sia sui componenti del quintetto (attivo da diverso tempo) né sullo stato di forma dell'attuale scena del jazz italiano, o per lo meno della sfera, mediaticamente parlando, più ...

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Olavi Trio & Friends: Triologia

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 16, 2012

Tre musicisti finlandesi hanno scoperto di avere il secondo nome in comune (Olavi) e hanno quindi deciso di chiamare il loro gruppo 'Olavi Trio.' Per questo Triologia hanno scelto di coinvolgere in alcuni brani altri tre musicisti, il trombettista Verneri Pohjola, il saxofonista Juhani Aaltonen e il chitarrista Kalle Kalima, per aggiungere nuovi sapori e nuovi ...

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Torben Waldorff: Wah-Wah

Read "Wah-Wah" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 16, 2012

Danish-born, Sweden-based guitarist Torben Waldorff takes the leading role on Wah-Wah as main soloist, putting his melodic integrity, and a natural leadership that stresses tight group interplay, up front. All his original compositions feature the guitarist's gift for structuring engaging melodies with rich and sophisticated harmonic patterns and tasteful and economic solos, all varied in moods ...

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Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Live

by Dan McClenaghan
October 16, 2012

Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch and his group Ronin joined the ECM Records roster in 2006 with their label debut, Stoa. Since then they have produced a new ECM set every two years, with Holon (2008), Llyría (2010), and now their first recorded-in-concert set for the label, the double-disc Live. Ronin's music has been called ...

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Josh Berman & His Gang: There Now

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by AAJ Italy Staff
October 15, 2012

Cinque dei brani presenti in There Now portano direttamente ai Roaring Twenties, i ruggenti Anni Venti nei quali impazzavano le prime formazioni jazz e si affermavano personaggi come Eddie Condon, figura leggendaria che animava con i suoi gruppi le roventi notti di Chicago. Proprio da Chicago arriva la Gang di Josh Berman, cornettista, già membro della ...