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Mike Nock / Laurenz Pike: Kindred
by John Kelman
Despite the lack of major label support--or, perhaps, as a result of it--jazz appears to be in a strange period of ascendancy, where the number of people playing it seems diametric to the industry support it receives. New Zealand-born Mike Nock should know; since relocating to Sydney, Australia in the mid-1980s--after spending a quarter century in ...
Scott Amendola Trio: Lift
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo Lift del trio di Scott Amendola arriva a parecchi anni di distanza dall'ottimo Believe del 2005 che vedeva il batterista californiano impegnato alla testa di un quintetto con i chitarristi Nels Cline e Jeff Parker affiancati dalla violinista Jenny Scheinman. Il basso era sempre affidato al fido scudiero John Shifflett. In Lift ritroviamo gli stessi ...
Dr. Lonnie Smith: The Healer
by Dan Bilawsky
Dr. Lonnie Smith has always addressed organ traditions on his own terms. He seems to intentionally avoid clichés and marketplace trends, preferring instead to chart his own course, so it's beautifully ironic that he's become something of a trendy figure-to-follow for the jazz-meets-jam crowd. While Smith recently attained septuagenarian status, he shows no signs of developing ...
Third World Love: Songs and Portraits
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il titolo del disco, Songs and Portraits, sembra quasi anonimo, così abusato, storpiato, variamente declinato. Poi si ascolta l'album e la minaccia di anonimato scompare. Innanzi tutto perché il gruppo ha un'identità talmente peculiare, fatta di solisti identificabili all'istante, che è impossibile non riconoscerla; poi perché l'apporto compositivo contribuisce, in questo come nei lavori precedenti, a ...
Soren Bebe Trio: A Song For You
by Jakob Baekgaard
Danish pianist Søren Bebe has carved a niche for himself with his particular brand of mournful Nordic ballads, which have enchanted not only Europeans, but also a Japanese audience that has embraced the bittersweet nostalgia that imbues many of his compositions. Thus, it is no coincidence that the Japanese label, Spice of Life, picked ...
Metallic Taste of Blood: Metallic Taste of Blood
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo quartetto guidato dal chitarrista Eraldo Bernocchi (già collaboratore di Bill Laswell e altri) conta sulle tastiere e sull'energia imperterrita, condita di ironia, di Jamie Saft, il ragazzo prodigio della scena downtown newyorkese, per scatenare un'eruzione di lava bollente che giunge inaspettata sulla scena ambient prog internazionale. Sono con loro Colin Edwin al basso elettrico (noto ...
Ed Cherry: It's All Good
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist Ed Cherry has been playing professionally since the early '70s, as a sideman to musicians such as Tim Hardin, Jimmy McGriff, Henry Threadgill and Jimmy Smith. Most famously, he spent over fifteen years in Dizzy Gillespie's band, remaining with the group until the trumpeter's death in 1993. Perhaps because of his busy career as a ...
Angelo Olivieri & Alípio C Neto Doppio Trio - Omaggio a Mario Schiano: If Not
by AAJ Italy Staff
Forse proprio l'estasi non l'abbiamo raggiunta, ma questo nulla toglie alla validità di questo disco. Il titolo If Not richiama infatti quel “If Not Ecstatic, We Refund" (se non andate in estasi vi rimborsiamo) con cui il sassofonista, compositore, artista e attore Mario Schiano, a cui è dedicato questo CD, aveva intitolato una delle sue composizioni. ...
The Remote Viewers: City Of Nets
by Alex Franquelli
From A to B. The language spoken by The Remote Viewers is one that feeds itself with the interferences caused by lines crossing each other at various speeds in a continuous effort to connect the dots. We, the humans, are the thriving beads forever longing that 'B' we, sometimes, don't even want to reach. City of ...
Magda Mayas: Myriad
by John Eyles
Myriad is the second duo recording by German pianist Magda Mayas and Lebanese alto saxophonist Christine Abdelnour, building on the excellent Teeming (Olof Bright, 2010). Recorded in concert at Météo Festival, Mulhouse, France, in August 2011, Myriad features two tracks with a combined running time under 34 minutes. However, that is not an issue as the ...
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