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Manner Effect: Abundance

Read "Abundance" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 1, 2012

Manner Effect is not merely an energetic group consisting of a vocalist backed by a four- piece band, but a quintet with two frontline instruments and a rhythm section. This is primarily due to Sarah Elizabeth Charles's utilization of her amazing vocal cords as a wind instrument, and in her delivery of songs in the tradition ...

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Snap: Boggy Creek Bop

Read "Boggy Creek Bop" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 31, 2012

Il noto saxofonista americano Phillip Johnston ha lasciato New York da alcuni anni e si è trasferito in Australia. Pian pianino sta ricostruendo una rete di amicizie musicali che presumibilmente finirà per assomigliare a quelle che aveva a New York. In attesa di avere quindi un Microscopic Septet australiano e magari un Fast 'n' Bulbous di ...

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Wolfgang Schalk: Word of Ear

Read "Word of Ear" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
August 31, 2012

As if to quietly utter “enough with talking about the music...," guitarist Wolfgang Schalk gets to the heart of the matter with Word of Ear and lets his playing speak loud and clear. This is his sixth recording as a leader and he continues to reveal expressive phrasing and piercing solos on hollow body electric and ...

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Milton Suggs: Lyrical, Volume 1

Read "Lyrical, Volume 1" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
August 31, 2012

Vocalist/composer Milton Suggs released Things To Come to certain positive acclaim. In an arid male jazz vocals landscape, Suggs recalls a simpler time ruled by the likes of Joe Williams and Johnny Hartman. His voice is deep and rich, with Betty Carter's pliability and Jon Hendricks' smokiness. On Lyrical, Volume 1 he fronts a larger-than-average band ...

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The Spokes: Not So Fast

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 31, 2012

Composto da tre navigati ed eclettici musicisti dell'area newyorchese, il trio The Spokes fonda il proprio appeal su numerose originali particolarità, la prima delle quali emerge fin dall'organico: tre fiati non frequentemente affiancati, per giunta apparentemente sbilanciati timbricamente, con due ance “alte" accanto a un ottone “basso". Analoga la “tensione" che emerge dalle composizioni, caratterizzate da ...

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School Of Music Graduate Ensemble: Mars Apes

Read "Mars Apes" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
August 31, 2012

The Philadelphia based University of Arts is famous for the excellence of its school of music and particularly the high caliber of its jazz education. Listening to the whimsically titled Mars Apes, it becomes clear that these accolades are not undeserved. Billed as School Of Music Graduate Ensemble, the group performs mostly original ...

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Edmondo Romano: Sonno Eliso

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 31, 2012

Sonno Eliso è un disco elaborato che pretende un organico di livello per dar vita ad un “Non-jazz project" che assembla strumenti di tradizioni diverse (Edmondo Romano, sax soprano, clarinetto, duduk, whistle, santur; Mario Arcari, oboe; Alessio Pisani, fagotto, controfagotto; Roberto Piga, violino, viola; Kim Schiffo, violoncello; Fabio Vernizzi, piano; Riccardo Barbera e Ares Tavolazzi, contrabbasso; ...

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Lionel Loueke: Heritage

Read "Heritage" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
August 31, 2012

On Heritage, Benin-born Lionel Loueke takes a more electric approach than on previous releases, which mostly featured his acoustic, nylon-string guitar. This change is immediately felt on the opening “Ifê," beginning with the muted notes of an acoustic steel-stringed guitar whose sound resembles a kalimba (thumb piano). Loueke is backed solely by his trio (rounded out ...

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Barcode Quartet: You're It

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 31, 2012

Annette Giesriegl è una vocalist di origine austriaca che nel corso della sua carriera ha esplorato ogni possibile declinazione della voce, compresi studi sui sovracuti e tecniche vocali utilizzate nella musica indiana. Attorno alla figura di questa spericolata improvvisatrice ruota il Barcode Quartet completato dalla violinista inglese Alison Blunt, studi accademici alle spalle musica sperimentale come ...

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Aruán Ortiz Quartet: Orbiting

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 30, 2012

Contrariamente alle convenzioni, questa recensione si aprirà con un giudizio di sintesi. Orbiting è un esempio di come si possano ricombinare felicemente materiali di provenienza diversa pur rimanendo in un contesto espressivo squisitamente jazzistico, nel senso più viscerale del termine e senza sfociare in un revivalismo respingente. Si tratta di un lavoro inquieto, dall'estetica spigolosa e ...