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Mal Waldron: Mal Waldron Quintets

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 26, 2012

Mal Waldron ha attraversato la storia del jazz con discrezione e determinazione. Il suo pianismo, partito da Monk, si è indirizzato su una strada ricca di varianti, che annodava in modo robusto blues e astrazione, con un formidabile istinto ritmico e timbrico. Ne ricordiamo le collaborazioni con Charles Mingus e con Max Roach, con Coltrane e ...

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Noah Howard Quartet: The Bremen Concert

Read "The Bremen Concert" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
June 26, 2012

Alto saxophonist Noah Howard was a key player in the free jazz movement of the 1960s. He moved into the realm of that decade--a time when the atmosphere was rife with saxophonists primed to the calling. Born in New Orleans, Howard characterized his approach with a distinctive sensibility for gospel music that unraveled enticingly in his ...

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Ivo Perelman - Joe Morris - Gerald Cleaver: Family Ties

Read "Family Ties" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 26, 2012

Ivo Perelman è un sassofonista brasiliano che dal suo album di debutto nel 1989 ha inciso una serie infinita di dischi a proprio nome. Fin qui niente di strano se non fosse per il piccolo particolare che il nostro non è nome di fama planetaria e suona free jazz, spesso addentrandosi nei territori e nelle forme ...

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Der Wawawa: Lord Huhn

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 26, 2012

Nove brani in quarantasei minuti compongono Lord Huhn, un album di jazz intenso, dalle atmosfere stratificate e suonato con grande unione di intenti dal trio Der Wawawa, una realtà di base a Berna che ha nel sax di Benedikt Reising il proprio tratto distintivo. Un timbro capace di segnare a fuoco le lunghe melodie che caratterizzano ...

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The Jay Vonada Trio: Red Pajamas

Read "Red Pajamas" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 26, 2012

Band leader/trombonist Jay T. Vonada has shared the stage with former Frank Sinatra pianist Russ Kassoff, bassists David Finck and Jay Leonhart, as well as drummers Tim Horner and Dennis Mackrel. He also leads several bands, is a member of the Zeropoint Big Band and performs in various venues throughout the Aaronsburg and central region of ...

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Dave Stapleton: Flight

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 26, 2012

Uscito dalle importanti aule del Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama quale uno più promettenti pianisti classici della scuola, il gallese Dave Stapleton è salito agli onori delle cronache musicali per essersi imposto poi quale uno dei più talentuosi pianisti del jazz britannico degli ultimi dieci anni. Ambizioso e con un backgound “classico" quanto basta, ...

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Karl Seglem: NORSKjazz.no

Read "NORSKjazz.no" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 26, 2012

He's done everything from solo concerts on heavily processed goat horns to free improvisation duets with fellow Norwegian, percussionist Terje Isungset, but in a career spanning 20 years and including the more electronica-centric yet curiously timeless Urbs (NORCD Music, 2008), saxophonist Karl Seglem has never recorded an album with a conventional sax-piano-bass-drums quartet. Until now. NORSKjazz.no ...

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Esbjörn Svensson Trio: 301

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 25, 2012

Sidney, gennaio 2007. Svensson, Berglund e Öström si ritrovano allo studio 301 a improvvisare una jam session che durerà ininterrottamente per due giorni interi, registrando circa 9 ore di musica. Quella sarà l'ultima seduta di registrazione degli E.S.T. perché nel giugno dell'anno successivo Svensson ha un incidente durante un immersione subacquea nel mare intorno a Stoccolma ...

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The Cookers: Believe

by Troy Collins
June 25, 2012

Believe is The Cooker's third release in as many years, celebrating the all-star septet's fifth anniversary as a working group. More than just a collective of high-profile scene veterans (named after Freddie Hubbard's live 1965 Blue Note recording Night of the Cookers), the lineup's impressive credentials collectively span from the acoustic hard bop of Art Blakey's ...

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Jamie Reynolds Trio: Time With People

Read "Time With People" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 25, 2012

Pianist Jamie Reynolds completed his studies at the University of Toronto in 2004, but his work was hardly done at that point. Reynolds headed to New York a year later and, thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, began studying with pianist Fred Hersch. A second grant afforded him the opportunity to ...