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Sandy Patton - Thomas Dürst: Painting Jazz Vol. 2

Read "Painting Jazz Vol. 2" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

A quattro anni di distanza da Painting Jazz, la cantante afro-americana Sandy Patton e il contrabbassista svizzero Thomas Dürst rinnovano la loro collaborazione con un secondo capitolo che amplia la prospettiva oltre l'universo degli standard. A parte qualche eccezione, il repertorio di questo disco comprende brani originali dei due protagonisti e temi che difficilmente troviamo nel ...

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Paula West: Live at Jazz Standard

Read "Live at Jazz Standard" reviewed by Tom Pierce

by Tom Pierce

Devotees of superior jazz vocalists have several reasons to rejoice about this fourth CD by the highly respected San Francisco-based Paula West. First and foremost, the recording is simply a true knockout; but the rejoicing is also because, despite rave audiences and reviews for over a decade, this is West's first release since the impressively executed ...

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Treperquattropiuuno: Vintage

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il progetto Treperquattro va avanti da alcuni anni. Per questo loro terzo album, Vintage, l'organico si allarga con l'arrivo del trombonista svizzero Danilo Moccia. La scelta di lasciare fuori uno strumento armonico può fare pensare a formazioni famose quali quelle pianoless di Gerry Mulligan o di Ornette Coleman. Il gruppo italiano si tiene lontano da queste ...

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Jürgen Hagenlocher: Leap in the Dark

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il contenitore “mainstream" continua ad ampliarsi esponenzialmente grazie a produzioni e collaborazioni in ogni angolo del mondo, consentendo un confronto artistico attraverso uno stile che - pur se in parte codificato - lascia ampio spazio a creativitità, complessità e virtuosismo. In Leap in the Dark abbiamo modo di ascoltare il sassofonista tedesco Jürgen Hagenlocher insieme ad ...

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Chris McGregor: In His Good Time

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by Chris May

Founder of South African group the Blue Notes and, later in London, the Brotherhood of Breath, pianist Chris McGregor (born in the Transkei to Scottish missionary parents) was among the first musicians to take what became known as “township jazz" beyond South Africa, when he and the Blue Notes went into voluntary exile in 1964. Like ...

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Massimo De Mattia: Black Novel

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Ultima fatica per Massimo De Mattia (clicca qui per leggere una sua intervista), che si presenta con un nuovo quintetto assieme ai fidi Denis Biason, Bruno Cesselli e Alessandro Turchet (con lui anche nel precedente Mikiri+3) e al vibrafonista Luigi Vitale. I brani stavolta sono improvvisati e perciò, anche se talvolta si avviano da piccole tracce, ...

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Kerong Chok: Good Company

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by Ian Patterson

Though still in his twenties, pianist/keyboardist/composer Kerong Chok has been one of the bright young stars on Singapore's jazz scene for a decade. He stepped into the limelight as co-writer, arranger and deft accompanist on singer Rani Singam's Contentment (Inflexion Lines, 2011), and here makes his full debut as leader, on a Hammond organ-flavored set that ...

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Massimo De Mattia: Mikiri+3

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Ampliando l'organico con il quale aveva dato vita ai precedenti lavori Mikiri e Atto di dolore, il flautista Massimo De Mattia va un passo oltre e realizza un opera multiforme e sfaccettata, nella quale la libertà improvvisativa che gli è solita si sposa con momenti di lirismo e di pathos, anche grazie ad un'oculata selezione dei ...

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Connie Evingson: Sweet Happy Life

Read "Sweet Happy Life" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Singer Connie Evingson is a master of thematic programming. Her last several recordings have all been predicated on specific themes that showed great consideration in their concepts. Recordings released since the new millennium include: Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg (Minnehaha Music, 2008); Stockholm Sweetnin' (Minnehaha Music, 2006); Gypsy in my Soul (Minnehaha Music, ...

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Mazz Swift - Tomeka Reid - Silvia Bolognesi: Hear In Now

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Nato nel 2009 in occasione di un festival in Italia e in seguito consolidatosi in ulteriori concerti in Italia e negli Stati Uniti, questo trio d'archi sviluppa una poetica di ricerca che crea un ponte tra la cameristica classica e l'improvvisazione chicagoana e newyorchese (non a caso le note del disco sono di William Parker). La ...


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