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Vertere String Quartet & Robertinho De Paula: Vera Cruz

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 14, 2012

Il Vertere String Quartet è un ensemble cameristico giunto al decimo anno di vita. Composto da quattro musicisti pugliesi di formazione classica, ha però di mira non già l'esecuzione di un repertorio classico, bensì - sulla scia di analoghe formazioni come il Kronos o il Balanescu - la sperimentazione in ambiti diversi. Il quartetto ha al ...

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Gabriel Zufferey: Contemplation

Read "Contemplation" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 14, 2012

Jazz mashups are in the air. First, pianist Robert Glasper artfully wove pianist Herbie Hancock's “Maiden Voyage" together with Radiohead's “Everything in its Right Place" on the his In My Element (Blue Note, 2007). The Jazz Punks' raucous Smashups (Foam @ the Mouth, 2012) mashed up saxophonist Sonny Rollins with guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin ...

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Sara Gazarek: Blossom & Bee

Read "Blossom & Bee" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 14, 2012

All chicken or feathers, feast or famine, flood or drought; regarding jazz vocal releases, there is always a healthy steady stream of new music being produced. The vast majority is good while, as it should be, the truly exceptional are of a rarer variety. The release of Kate McGarry's exceptional Girl Talk (Palmetto, 2012) might have ...

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The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Evocations

Read "Evocations" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 14, 2012

The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, led by pianist, trumpeter, composer and music director Mark Harvey, celebrates its sixth album for Leo Records. Recorded at various venues in the Boston, MA, area, the orchestra's empirical gait surges forward, as no two compositions are distinctly alike. Variety is always an underlying factor within the band's manifesto; from military orchestral ...

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The Minus One: Live in Pisa

Read "Live in Pisa" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 14, 2012

Il 20 agosto 2011 il trio The Minus One ha tenuto un concerto al Jazzwide - Argini & Margini di Pisa, che viene ora pubblicato in questo CD live, pubblicato da Punto rojo, costola editoriale del collettivo ferrarese El gallo rojo. Dietro a The Minus One ci sono i nomi del batterista Tommaso Cappellato, del bassista ...

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Jerome Sabbagh: Plugged In

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by AAJ Italy Staff
June 14, 2012

Il saxofonista francese (ma di base a New York) Jerome Sabbagh organizza un quartetto di grande duttilità per dar vita a Plugged In, un album dove si incontrano mainstream e situazioni chiaroscurali, che si alternano a momenti dal taglio maggiormente più introspettivo e di ricerca. Sono ben quattordici le tracce in scaletta, nelle quali il leader ...

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Chris Cortez: Aunt Nasty

Read "Aunt Nasty" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 14, 2012

A businessman as well as an active musician, Chris Cortez has been very busy producing music through his own Blue Bamboo Music record label--so much so that Aunt Nasty is his first recording in five years. A guitarist and excellent vocalist as comfortable in rock and blues as he seems to be when performing a jazz ...

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Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: All There, Ever Out

Read "All There, Ever Out" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 13, 2012

It has been the Holy Grail of jazz since its inception: to carve out the perfect balance between the written and the spontaneously invented. While All There, Ever Out may not be the definitive statement, English pianist Alexander Hawkins has taken a bold stab at a new version of the equation, combining composition and improvisation in ...

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Matt Ulery: By A Little Light

Read "By A Little Light" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
June 13, 2012

A unique blend of traditional jazz, classical, Eastern European folk, and modern idioms, Mat Ulery's By A little Light is steeped in a melancholic grace and shadowy beauty that provides the two-disc set its unifying force. Throughout, Ulery has chosen detail and the oblique over the grandiose to etch his dusky scenes and portraits that seem ...

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Edward Simon - Scott Colley - Clarence Penn: A Master's Diary

Read "A Master's Diary" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 13, 2012

Esistono diversi modi di parlare di un incontro che ha risvolti importanti per chi ne è coinvolto. È il caso di Edward Simon (pianista di formazione classica e jazz) che insieme a Scott Colley (contrabbasso) e Clarence Penn (batteria) interpreta le musiche di uno dei nostri maggiori compositori per il teatro e il cinema, Fiorenzo Carpi. ...