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Fish in Oil: Poluostrvo

Read "Poluostrvo" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

With the release of Fish in the Oil's debut, Polustrvo, the jazz underground in Belgrade, Serbia climbs closer towards daylight. This eclectic album explores several forms, all at once, as it eschews the easily identifiable and standard structured sounds. It seems Fish in Oil has opted for a multilayered approach, as it uses different sounds, rhythms, ...

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Stefano Pastor: Songs

Read "Songs" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Songs is virtuoso Italian violinist Stefano Pastor's attempt to explore song form through his solo violin, aided only by different sound processors and his voice--feeling the sound of his voice as well as his violin physically, inside his body, and directly, without anything but his own body, as Pastor writes in the liner notes.

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Hamilton de Holanda: Brasilianos 3

Read "Brasilianos 3" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il mandolino a dieci corde è uno strumento che fa parte della tradizione musicale del Sud America, anche se non è certamente utilizzato frequentemente nella musica dei giorni nostri. I veterani Jacob do Bandolim, Joel Nascimento e Armandinho sono gli eroi di questo strumento. Il bravissimo Hamilton de Holanda cerca ora di riportarlo all'attenzione degli appassionati, ...

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Rufus Reid: Hues of a Different Blue

Read "Hues of a Different Blue" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Rufus Reid è uno di quei musicisti che meriterebbero attenzione solo per lo splendore della voce strumentale. Cavata e swing del suo contrabbasso sono semplicemente fra le cose più belle che si possano ascoltare nel jazz, apprezzabili in molti dischi e accompagnate da un considerevole impegno didattico. A queste prime considerazioni aggiungiamo subito che Hues of ...

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Insub Meta Orchestra: Archive #1

Read "Archive #1" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel

Founded in September 2010, the Insub Meta Orchestra (IMO) is an ensemble composed of several dozen improvisers from Switzerland and beyond. The group first explored its possibilities in seven separate concerts and then, in the summer of 2011, forty members hunkered down for a three-day musical marathon, which allowed it time and space to delve into ...

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Nobuyasu Furuya Quintet: The Major

Read "The Major" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il quintetto del sassofonista giapponese Nobuyasu Furuya è chiaramente formato da due entità distinte e distinguibili. Da una parte la sezione ritmica con il pianoforte di Rodrigo Pinheiro, un piano trio (Red Trio il suo nome) autonomo con importanti registrazioni all'attivo, nelle quali è comunque norma la presenza di un ospite di lusso. Dall'altra i due ...

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Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble and TACTUS feat. Dave Liebman: Sky Changes

Read "Sky Changes" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Jazz and classical music have long been bedfellows. As far back as the 1920s, clarinetist/soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was quoting Italian opera in solos, and in the 1950s/60s, notable composers/arrangers like Gil Evans and George Russell were, at least in part, driven to innovation through exposure/study of contemporary classical music, with Gunther Schuller even coining the ...

Article: Album Review

Michele Di Toro: Echolocation

Read "Echolocation" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Echolocation è il nuovo lavoro in piano solo di Michele Di Toro, compositore che in questo CD ribadisce la sua grande forza comunicativa attraverso tredici brani che rimarcano un rapporto simbiotico e passionale con lo strumento. Il suo è uno stile che trova la chiave espressiva in un una forte preparazione tecnica, con la quale fa ...

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Theo Ceccaldi Trio: Carrousel

Read "Carrousel" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

This unique French string trio was recommended to Ayler Records by double bass master Joëlle Léandre. Léandre was right, of course. Carrousel, the debut from this trio, is an original set of sophisticated compositions delivered by mature musicians who found a sound of their own--a chamber-like quality but an adventurous one, intense but lyrical, light but ...

Article: Album Review

Claudio Puntin: East

Read "East" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Lo svizzero Claudio Puntin, splendido clarinettista e compositore originalissimo, autore di lavori di grande interesse come Berge Versetzen, con la Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, e COR, con Joao Paulo e Samuel Rohrer, presenta qui un nuovo e stimolante capitolo della sua biografia di musicista totale. Come nel caso di Berge Versetzen, anche East è un “concept album," ...


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