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Francois Houle 5 + 1: Genera

Read "Genera" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 13, 2012

Celebrated Canadian progressive jazz clarinetist Francois Houle enlists an all-star support system for a comprehensive album that radiates numerous slants amid ethereal backwashes, scrappy improvisation and softly explorative passages. “Albatros" highlights the sextet's manifold capabilities. Propagated by Houle's buoyantly lilting stride, the band generates a deceptively complex primary theme based on odd-metered unison phrasings, spanning free-bop ...

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Dennis González Yells At Eels – Alvin Fielder: Resurrection and Life

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 13, 2012

Inciso fra il giugno 2010 e il settembre 2001, questo lavoro vede affiancato il gruppo del trombettista texano Dennis González (comprensivo dei suoi figli Aaron, bassista, e Stefan, percussionista) col veterano batterista Alvin Fielder, classe 1935, membro fondatore dell'AACM. Il risultato è un album di sicuro spessore, innervato da strutture solide ma mai prevaricanti l'estro del ...

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Chris Greene Quartet: A Group Effort

Read "A Group Effort" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 13, 2012

In October, 2011, Chicago saxophonist Chris Greene's quartet stepped up to the stage--The Mayne Stage, to be exact, the entertainment and dining venue located in Chicago's Rogers Park--to perform a live set of sizzling post-bop ultimately captured for its first in-concert CD, A Group Effort. With an introduction from pianist/musical director William Kurk, the show kicks ...

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Musica ex Machina: L'Age d'Or

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 13, 2012

L'Age D'Or nasce dall'esperienza dell'Ichnusa Festival diretto da Paola Bellu, ponte di cultura e di spettacolo tra New York e Sardegna, che ha visto svilupparsi una fruttuosa collaborazione tra artisti sardi e jazzisti d'oltreoceano con risultati, in certi casi, straordinari. E quello che vi stiamo raccontando è proprio uno di questi casi: qui infatti il quartetto ...

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Roberto Gatto: Pure Imagination

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 12, 2012

Quando si ascoltano dischi come questi le parole servono a ben poco: un critico si sforza di valutare i brani in perfetta solitudine per riuscire a carpirne tutte le sfumature possibili, ma la prima cosa che mi è venuta in mente è stata: sarebbe bello se in questo momento potessi condividere le mie emozioni con più ...

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Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction

Read "Spirit Fiction" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
June 12, 2012

Ravi Coltrane's Blue Note debut, Spirit Fiction, presents the saxophonist in a self-created environment of formal experimentation defined by multiple conceits and constraints.Coltrane's penchant for this type of thoughtful experimentation has been consistent over his career. With Spirit Fiction, however, he has taken the approach to a new level, deploying an array of recording ...

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Nils Berg Cinemascope: Popmotion

Read "Popmotion" reviewed by James Pearse

by James Pearse
June 12, 2012

There are concept albums and then there is concept music. While progressive rock and pop artists habitually follow a specific theme or develop a story over the course of an album, some musicians offer entirely new models of composition. Popmotion, the debut album by Swedish trio Nils Berg Cinemascope, falls unquestionably into the latter category.

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Lisa McClowry: Lisa McClowry Sings Acoustic Alchemy

Read "Lisa McClowry Sings Acoustic Alchemy" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
June 12, 2012

It's an interesting dilemma: how does a singer cover a band whose songs have no lyrics? The solution the Chicago-based tandem of vocalist Lisa McClowry and producer Jim Peterik came up with was not only to add lyrics to the songs of Acoustic Alchemy, but to invite the guitar duo of Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale ...

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Dialogues Trio with Julian Siegel: Twinkle Twinkle

Read "Twinkle Twinkle" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 12, 2012

Non fatevi ingannare dal brano iniziale, un valzerino alla Bill Evans, che fa pensare all'ennesimo tentativo, qui peraltro piuttosto ben riuscito, di portare acqua fresca al mulino musicale lasciato in eredità dal grande pianista di Plainfield. Perché Twinkle Twinkle è disco che si muove in diverse direzioni, attinge a varie fonti, è camaleontico nello sviluppo, con ...

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Mac Gollehon: Oddissey of Nostalgia

Read "Oddissey of Nostalgia" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 12, 2012

Ecco un CD che, a un primo ascolto, potrebbe essere facilmente trascurato: un programma di classici del jazz, riproposti in modo apparentemente privo di particolarità - né filologici, né rivoluzionari - da musicisti non di primo piano (vi svetta, e un po' sorprende la sua presenza, Amina Claudine Myers), coronato da un titolo (offerto dall'unica composizione ...