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Spero: Acoustic

Read "Acoustic" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
October 14, 2012

Greg Spero is a man of many parts in his approach to the piano. Based in Chicago, he has been involved in the city's adventurous jazz scene, having played with trumpeter Corey Wilkes and bassist Harrison Bankhead. But he goes beyond these boundaries, finding inspiration in hip-hop and electric distortion, which is quite a way from ...

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Erika Dagnino / Stefano Pastor / George Haslam / Steve Waterman: Narcéte

Read "Narcéte" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 14, 2012

This Anglo-Italian quartet presents its version of improvised jazz with poetry. The Italian side comes from poet and writer Erika Dagnino--who recites her poems in English--and violinist and double bassist Stefano Pastor. Their English partners are veteran improvisers and frequent collaborators, saxophonist George Haslam and trumpeter Steve Waterman. This recording features a happy ...

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Alex Machacek: FAT

by Ian Patterson
October 13, 2012

Alex Machacek has been turning heads with his incendiary guitar playing and striking writing since he burst on the scene with Featuring Ourselves (Next Generation Enterprises, 1999). Whilst drummer Herbert Pirker and bassist Raphael Preuschi have a less visible profile, their equally outstanding chops play a big part in the success of FAT. These musicians also ...

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Roy Assaf: Respect, Vol.1

Read "Respect, Vol.1" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 13, 2012

Innovation and as-yet-unheard-of ideals tend to sell headlines in jazz, but they mean nothing without respect for those who paved the road to the present. Many young emerging talents seem content to walk into jazz without doing their due diligence in discovery and digestion, but that often puts them in a peculiar position of being a ...

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Steinar Raknes: Stillhouse

Read "Stillhouse" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 13, 2012

Steinar Raknes is a man of many tastes. A founding member of the fiery modern jazz quartet The Core, a collaborator with lyrical jazz violinist Ola Kvernberg, co-leader of the SKÁIDI duo with yoik vocalist Inga Juuso, and leader of his own quartet that covers tango and bossa-nova classics, on Stillhouse, this Norwegian double bassist features ...

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Lou Marini: Starmaker

Read "Starmaker" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 13, 2012

Lou Marini's Starmaker is a reflection of the veteran reedman's professional life, with eight originals ranging from jazz, to blues and other related genres. Known by the moniker “Blue Lou," Marini has starred in the classic “The Blues Brothers" and has played with such diverse ensembles as Woody Herman's orchestra, Blood, Sweat and Tears, guitarist/composer Frank ...

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Roman Filiu: Musae

by Dan Bilawsky
October 12, 2012

Drummer Dafnis Prieto created the Dafnison Music label as a means to control his own work and get his forward-thinking recordings into the hands of the public on his own terms. That, however, doesn't mean he isn't willing to use this imprint as a means to promote the work of other deserving artists. Musae marks the ...

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Lanfranco Malaguti: Galaxies

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 12, 2012

Lanfranco Malaguti prosegue la sua ricerca con determinazione, coadiuvato dai tre partner con cui ha realizzato Panorami. È un'esplorazione complessa e in gran parte originale, sul terreno d'incontro tra tonalità e atonalità, acustico ed elettrico, composizione e libera improvvisazione. Il riferimento alle galassie, nel titolo del disco e in ognuno dei brani, non è casuale. Come ...

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Grant Geissman: Bop! Bang! Boom!

Read "Bop! Bang! Boom!" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 12, 2012

Grant Geissman's lengthy career as a guitarist and composer started in the early '70s. His résumé includes the guitar solo on flugelhornist Chuck Mangione's 1978 hit single “Feels So Good," a discography of around 15 albums as leader and compositions for TV such as the theme for the CBS comedy Two And A Half Men. Bop! ...

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Jacob Garchik: The Heavens: The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 12, 2012

Non fatevi ingannare dalle polifonie che emergono da The Heavens: the Athesit Gospel Trombone Album. Nessuna reincarnazione della Lester Bowie's Brass Band, semplicemente un album registrato in solitaria nel proprio studio domestico da Jacob Garchick. Che utilizzando la tecnica della sovra-incisione di parti per trombone, sousaphone, corno baritono, corno contralto e tromba a coulisse arriva a ...