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Get The Blessing: OCDC

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 2, 2012

OCDC è il classico album che farà irritare i puristi. E i Get the Blessing, quartetto di Bristol qui alla loro terza prova discografica, si capisce subito che si divertono un mondo a sovvertire le regole del mainstream con un jazz iperitmico, venato di rock e trascinato dalle tipiche e melodiche evoluzioni dei fiati - tromba ...

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Avishai Cohen - Trumpet: Triveni II

Read "Triveni II" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 2, 2012

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen had already reached the upper echelons of the jazz world when he put Triveni into motion, but this trio's debut--Introducing Triveni (Anzic Records, 2010)--still managed to mark a quantum leap in his artistry. The Israeli-born horn man first made stateside ripples when he placed third in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition in ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day Octet

Read "Canada Day Octet" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 2, 2012

Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt has developed into one of the most imaginative writers on the scene for larger ensembles. On Canada Day Octet, he presents the latest installment following on from such larger scale works as All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poo-bah, 2007), and the wonderful Woodblock Prints (No Business, 2010). But this time, the difference is ...

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Pharoah Sanders: The Pharoah Sanders Story: In the Beginning 1963-1965

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 2, 2012

Insieme ai più anziani Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, Roswell Rudd e Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders resta uno dei grandi testimoni viventi della stagione in cui il jazz si liberò degli ormeggi armonici, ritmici, sintattici e semantici per intraprendere la grande e tuttora non esaurita esperienza del free. Come ricordano le eccellenti note di copertina di questo ...

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Jordan Young: Cymbal Melodies

Read "Cymbal Melodies" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 1, 2012

Drummer Jordan Young took the organ quartet outside of its stylistic comfort zone on his debut, Jordan Young Group (Self Produced, 2010), and continues to carve his own path within this format on this enjoyable follow-up. Young reconvenes the quartet from his first leader date, with Avi Rothbard taking the place of guitarist Yotam Silberstein, and ...

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Isamu McGregor: Isamu McGregor: Live at the Baked Potato!

Read "Isamu McGregor: Live at the Baked Potato!" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
October 1, 2012

Keyboardist Isamu McGregor has fairly raced out of the blocks, playing or recording with guitarist Wayne Krantz, saxophonist Chris Potter, drummer Ari Hoenig, bassist James Genus, pianist Jean- Michel Pilc, vibraphonist Stefon Harris and vocalist Jimmy Scott--to name but a few--while still just 22 years old. His debut as leader sees him lead his energetic quartet ...

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Eve Risser / Benjamin Duboc / Edward Perraud: En Corps

Read "En Corps" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 1, 2012

This magnificent French trio is comprised of three promising and yet underrated young musicians-- experimental pianist Eve Risser, an explorer of paradoxical piano sounds and a member of the French-Swedish-German musicians collective Umlaut, the band The New Sounds and the duo Donkey Monkey; likeminded prolific bassist Benjamin Duboc, whose activity encompasses free improvisation, free jazz and ...

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Nicky Schrire: Freedom Flight

Read "Freedom Flight" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 30, 2012

Freedom Flight is the debut from vocalist Nicky Schrire, a young singer who was born in London, raised in Cape Town and now resides in New York. It's a distinctive debut, heralding the welcome arrival to the scene of a fine vocalist with an eclectic range of source material--a mix of Latin, pop, folk, and American ...

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Connie Evingson: Sweet Happy Life

Read "Sweet Happy Life" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 30, 2012

Norman Gimbel's name may not register with a lot of educated jazz fans, yet he's linked to some of the most important songs and artists in the music. Gimbel wrote the lyrics attached to harmonica ace Toots Thielemans' best known number, “Bluesette," captured Michel Legrand's musical moods in words on “I Will Wait For You" and ...

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Ich bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson: Ich bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson

Read "Ich bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 30, 2012

Young Norwegian power trio Ich bin N!ntendo is a sonic heir to European power outfits such as the Swedish-Norwegian trio The Thing, Italian punk-jazz trio Zu, and Dutch quartet The Ex. Its affinity with Swedish sax titan Mats Gustafsson of The Thing, who guests on this live recording, is obvious. Both enjoy exploring and pushing the ...