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John Surman: Saltash Bells

Read "Saltash Bells" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 19, 2012

There's no denying the “the sound of surprise" of group recordings; working solo, however, provides its own possibilities, despite meaning different things to different people. Pianist Keith Jarrett views it as a means for pulling form from the ether: one man, one piano, in real time. Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus, on the other hand, considers it a ...

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Pietro Tonolo - Arnie Somogy - Jorge Rossy - Joe Chambers: Passport

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 19, 2012

Ci si accomoda con la sensazione che quello che starà per accadere sarà molto di più di un concerto. Quello che ascoltiamo in Passport è stato registrato nel marzo 2011 all'Audotorium Parco della Musica di Roma), tappa importante del tour di un gruppo che Joe Chambers descrive asciuttamente: «Quando Pietro mi ha chiesto di pensare a ...

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Henry Threadgill: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp

Read "Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
June 19, 2012

Henry Threadgill's music is best served neither cold nor hot, but with an open mind. The 68 year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist has endured as one of contemporary music's foremost innovators--a cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a bandleader with over thirty releases, and works with a number of eclectic bands including Zooid, ...

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Sumi Tonooka: Now

by Dan McClenaghan
June 19, 2012

Sumi Tonooka is a resourceful jazz pianist who, along with alto saxophonist Chris Burnett and tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, started the Artists Recording Collective, offering up Initiation (2010), an excellent quartet outing which Tonooka co-led with Lindsay, and a more intimate Tonooka-led trio effort, Long Ago Today (2008). A former student of piano legend Mary Lou ...

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Romain Collin: The Calling

Read "The Calling" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 19, 2012

Romain Collin è un pianista di classe. Qualità già emersa nel precedente The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn del 2009, e pienamente confermata nel nuovo The Calling, album nel quale ritroviamo al suo fianco Luques Curtis al contrabbasso e Kendrick Scott alla batteria, con l'aggiunta in alcune tracce del chitarrista John Shannon e di Adrian Daurov ...

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Palatino: Back in Town

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 19, 2012

Il gruppo italo-francese Palatino (il nome deriva dal treno che collega Roma e Parigi) è un progetto che ha visto impegnati il nostro trombettista Paolo Fresu accanto alla coppia ritmica formata dai francesi Michel Benita e Aldo Romano (di origine italiana) e al trombonista Glenn Ferris (americano, ma trapiantato a Parigi da trent'anni) nell'arco di tempo ...

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Kate Williams Septet: Made Up

Read "Made Up" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 19, 2012

Made Up is the fourth album from British composer/pianist Kate Williams. Her previous albums have featured trio, quartet and quintet lineups; Made Up leapfrogs the sextet setup to feature a seven-piece group of top flight UK musicians who prove to be superb interpreters of Williams' brightly original compositions.Made Up was released in the UK ...

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Burton Greene - Alan Silva: Parallel Worlds

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by AAJ Italy Staff
June 18, 2012

Erano gli anni '60 e la rivoluzione del free a New York coinvolgeva pure due giovani musicisti come il pianista Burton Greene ed il contrabbassista Alan Silva. Siamo ora nel 2012, il free esiste ancora e ogni tanto i due artisti, oggi residenti in Europa, sono ancora attivi su quel fronte ma fanno anche molto altro, ...

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Christine Tobin: Sailing To Byzantium

Read "Sailing To Byzantium" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 18, 2012

On Sailing To Byzantium singer/songwriter Christine Tobin adds music to the poems of Ireland's much-loved William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Get this wrong, and an entire nation might well demand answers: get it right and a richly imaginative and beautiful recording is promised. Tobin gets it right.Tobin's love of Yeats goes back to her teens ...

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Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet: Live in Basel

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by AAJ Italy Staff
June 18, 2012

Pete Robbins, sassofonista e compositore di Brooklyn, non trova ancora alcun riscontro in Italia, a dispetto delle numerose tournèe europee effettuate. Leader di differenti formazioni, in grado di proporre sguardi antitetici al jazz odierno, Robbins con il Transatlantic Quartet sviscera una musica carica di ricchezza armonica, ritmicamente leggera e tonica, brillante per qualità solistica, bene espressa ...