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Louis Durra: The Best of Both Possible Worlds

Read "The Best of Both Possible Worlds" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Versatile pianist Louis Durra is no stranger to genre bending experiments. His resume as a recording artist includes sessions with church choirs and musical casts, as well as Christmas discs and those with his more mainstream jazz trio. On The Best of Both Possible Worlds, he interprets eight popular tunes ranging from light rock to reggae, ...

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Oscar Del Barba - Francesco Saiu: Quattro elementi

Read "Quattro elementi" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Quando s'incontrano un pianoforte e una chitarra le aspettative sono sempre molto alte: entrambi strumenti armonici, hanno per questo ciascuno infinite possibilità; uniti, possono dialogare nelle forme più diverse. Eppure, non sempre queste promesse vengono mantenute, vuoi per caduta nella routine, vuoi per carenza di idee o di coraggio. Non è il caso di questo Quattro ...

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Marco Benevento: TigerFace

Read "TigerFace" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

When a renegade instrumentalist such as keyboardist/sonic adventurer Marco Benevento records an album with a relatively big budget, and with the shock-horror addition of a vocalist, it can be bad news for the core audience. Bye bye bohemia, hello mainstream. TigerFace was tracked, not at Benevento's usual Brooklyn location, but at Los Angeles' EastWest studio, where ...

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Clazz Ensemble - Frank Carlberg: Federico on Broadway

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Frank Carlberg più che essere un direttore d'orchestra è un domatore da circo. Sa come prendere per il verso giusto belve inferocite, sa utilizzare bene il bastone e la carota con una facilità disarmante. Eppure, il compositore finlandese di stanza a New York, non ha di fronte a sé una manica di pagliacci né leoni imbolsiti ...

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Bugge & Henning: Last Spring

Read "Last Spring" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

With such a focus on jazz, it's easy to forget that, at the end of the day, all music is--or, at least, comes from-- improvised music. Whether drawn from the ether and performed in real time or written down on manuscript, it's still drawn from the ether. Classical music has its own history in improvisation, ranging ...

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Andrea Ferrario Quartet: The Mask

Read "The Mask" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

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Jasmine Lovell-Smith: Fortune Songs

Read "Fortune Songs" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

A debut CD has to be good to get noticed--really good. Also, behind the pretty, well-designed cover art, an aspiring jazz person with a low profile has to have some nerve to put forty-five minutes to an hour of brand new music out there. At the very least, a new-to-the-scene artist better be able to run ...

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Matthias Ziegler: La Rusna - Music for Flutes

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by AAJ Italy Staff

La Rusna è disco soggetto a due forze centrifughe. Da una parte vi è il marchio Leo Records, etichetta storicamente votata alla sperimentazione spesso radicale, garanzia di originalità e di integrità artistica. Dall'altra vi sono il sottotitolo, “musica per flauti," e le immagini di copertina (un paesaggio idilliaco con cascate e verdi dirupi mozzafiato) che sanno ...

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Iskra 1903: Goldsmiths

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Si deve alla passione e alla tenacia di Martin Davidson la pubblicazione postuma di questo concerto, tenuto al londinese Goldsmiths College nel 1972 dal trio Iskra 1903, all'epoca composto da Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey e Barry Guy. Come le precedenti incisioni del gruppo edite dalla Emanem (Chapter One e Buzz Soundtrack) anche questo CD non suona ...

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Stian Westerhus: The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers

Read "The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Beyond his reputation as Norway's “hardest working guitarist"--an éclat supported by, amongst many others, ongoing membership in Nils Petter Molvær's trio and assuming the producer's role for the trumpeter's Baboon Moon (Sula, 2011); collaborating with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for Ripples, raptures and disbelief (a Molde Jazz Festival commission screaming for release); and, with Didymoi Dreams ...


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