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Kat Parra: Las Aventuras de Pasion!

Read "Las Aventuras de Pasion!" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 18, 2012

Kat Parra's voice may be the ultimate manifestation of the entire Latin music diaspora. While countless singers dabble in bossa nova or wander far and wide atop Afro-Cuban grooves, few people tackle the scope of music that Parra takes on. Engaging the totality of the entire Latin spectrum is no easy feat, but she seems willing ...

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Elliott Sharp: Aggregat

Read "Aggregat" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 18, 2012

Il chitarrista Elliott Sharp ci ricorda in questo ottimo Aggregat (Clean Feed Records) che è anche un interessante saxofonista, oltre che un paladino del jazz sperimentale e d'avanguardia. I suoi tre strumenti (chitarra elettrica, sax tenore e sax soprano) sono ripartiti abbastanza equamente nei dodici brani che lo vedono in trio accompagnato dal bassista Brad Jones ...

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Lee Konitz / Bill Frisell / Gary Peacock / Joey Baron: Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note

Read "Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 18, 2012

Super groups are, by their very nature, either bright shining stars or catastrophic exploding supernovae. Dream team basketball lineups get beat by upstarts, and the new Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Van Damme movie is sure to be a nonstarter. The reasons for the flops are usually chemistry and vision, both essential requirements.Same can be said for jazz groups. ...

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Ada Montellanico: Suono di donna

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 18, 2012

È un disco maiuscolo, quest'ultimo di Ada Montellanico. Una tappa importante nella sua carriera professionale e un'opera significativa nell'attuale panorama del jazz italiano. Suono di donna comprende otto pezzi scritti da altrettanti compositrici operanti nel mondo del jazz, del rock internazionale e della canzone italiana (più due brani della cantante). Artista poliedrica e anticonvenzionale, Ada Montellanico ...

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Anne Mette Iversen: Poetry of Earth

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 18, 2012

Palleggiandosi fra brani in inglese e in danese, rispettivamente cantati da Maria Neckam e Christine Skou (in un paio di casi, “Music" e “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket," anche insieme), questo nuovo lavoro della bassista e compositrice (tutte sue le musiche, costruite attorno a poesie dei vari Housman, Keats, Ibsen, Thomas Hardy, Svende Grøn, Lene ...

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Kurt Elling: 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project

Read "1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 18, 2012

Where female jazz vocalists are plentiful, male jazz vocals exist in vast minority. With Mark Murphy in twilight, Kurt Elling has few peers in the realm of male jazz vocals where sheer inventiveness and muscularity are concerned. Elling's facility is one so great and his musical vision so clear that, at least for the time being, ...

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Lee Konitz / Bill Frisell / Gary Peacock / Joey Baron: Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note

Read "Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 18, 2012

The idea of going into a club and playing a set of standards without any plans, preconceptions or pre- arrangements ain't exactly new; it's what plenty of jazz musicians do, each and every night. But it's one thing to go in and run down some Real Book charts, head-solo-head style, and give everyone a chance to ...

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Anthony Wilson: Seasons

Read "Seasons" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 17, 2012

Il chitarrista Anthony Wilson, noto principalmente per la sua partecipazione nel quartetto di Diana Krall fino dal 2001, è anche un compositore/arrangiatore molto attivo con vari progetti a suo nome, tra i quali spiccano un trio (con organo e batteria) e un nonetto, a cavallo tra avanguardia e tradizione. La sua discografia conta già una decina ...

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Kirk Knuffke - Jesse Stacken: Like a Tree

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 17, 2012

Una dozzina di brani usciti dalla penna di Lacy, Coltrane, Hemphill, Bley (Carla), Ayler, Coleman (Ornette), e Mengelberg accomunati da un approccio intimista, profondo, ricco di sfumature ma essenziale. Sono queste le coordinate entro le quali Kirk Knuffke alla cornetta, Jesse Stacken al piano e Kenny Wollesen alla batteria muovono le loro pedine interpretative. Il pianoforte ...

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Dave Douglas Quintet with Special Guest Aoife O' Donovan: Be Still

Read "Be Still" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 17, 2012

Eminent trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas models change through innovation. Among the more important progressive jazz musicians of the past three decades, he's evolved into a motivator and guiding light for scores of seasoned jazz artisans and progressive music upstarts. This 2012 campaign bridges Americana with equal parts jazz, folk, and hymnal pieces with a translucent melding of ...