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Piero Delle Monache Quartet: Thunupa
by AAJ Italy Staff
A soli trenta anni Piero Delle Monache si sta distinguendo come saxofonista ispirato, didatta, compositore e direttore artistico. Thunupa arriva a confermare le buone impressioni che aveva destato con il precedente Welcome, in dieci brani autografi affrontati con la collaborazione di un ottimo quartetto, completato da Tito Mangialajo Rantzer al contrabbasso, Alessandro Marzi alla batteria e ...
Johan Randen: Summary
by Glenn Astarita
Johan Randen is amassing a notable reputation in Europe as a nascent guitar-slinger and session ace. On 24 year-old Swede's third solo outing, Randen conveys guile and exemplary technical acumen. The album also signifies a resume that highlights the guitarist's diverse bag of tricks and comprehensive vernacular, while projecting a comfort zone within several genres. With ...
Susie Arioli featuring Jordan Officer: All The Way
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Susie Arioli's performances on All The Way are all about impact through intimacy. Arioli's laidback and understated vocals don't fall in line with the textbook definition of “powerful," but her ability to create highly emotive atmospheres in cloistered and relatively calm surroundings marks her as a powerful singer nonetheless. For this, her ...
Tom Tallitsch: Heads Or Tales
by Bruce Lindsay
Tenor saxophonist Tom Tallitsch makes his Posi-Tone debut with Heads Or Tales, a welcome addition to that label's impressively strong roster of straight-ahead and swinging musicians. Tallitsch has a warm tone, a lyrical and flowing style and an ability to craft solos that add to the narrative of his compositions: qualities that make the tunes--all but ...
Giovanni Francesca: Genesi
by AAJ Italy Staff
Genesi è il primo album di Giovanni Francesca, chitarrista e compositore con esperienze anche in ambito pop e teatrale, registrato tra il 2009 e il 2010 e uscito per Auand Records, nel quale si incanalano diversi discorsi espressivi - che ne costituiscono il motivo di maggiore interesse - e dove troviamo una nutrita serie di ospiti. ...
John O'Gallagher - Vardan Ovsepian: Nocturnal Prophecy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Vardan Ovsepian è un pianista di origini armene dai solidi studi classici, animato da passione jazzistica coltivata in luoghi di eccellenza come il Berklee College of Music. John O'Gallagher è contraltista tra i più originali della scena jazz newyorchese, con collaborazioni che spaziano da Uri Caine a Joe Henderson, da Maria Schneider a Tony Malaby. Il ...
Ballister: Mechanisms
by Glenn Astarita
The patrons for this live date must have been sitting on the edge of their seats throughout this exhilarating performance captured at a Chicago venue. With eminent proponents of the Chicago free-jazz sector wreaking havoc and Scandinavian drumming hero Paal Nilssen-Love adding his perennial doses of pop and sizzle, the trio's brazen and unrelenting attack often ...
Aquarium: Aquarium
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tutti i brani inseriti nel CD, realizzato nel dicembre 2009, si devono alla penna del giovane pianista londinese Sam Leak, di conseguenza leader effettivo del quartetto, che pure reca un nome collettivo. Ci si muove lungo i territori di un jazz classico-moderno piuttosto consolidato, a conti fatti in possesso più di solidità (globale) che non di ...
Eyal Vilner Big Band: Introducing The Eyal Vilner Big Band
by Hrayr Attarian
Most contemporary big band music is either of the heavily arranged, progressive jazz variety or the light-swing, Glenn Miller orchestral type played mainly for the benefit of nostalgic dancers. It is therefore refreshing to hear an ensemble that embraces the exuberance of mid-20th Century large groups and simultaneously delivers a bop-ish and elaborate sound.
Troyka: Moxxy
by Bruce Lindsay
The three young British players who constitute Troyka--guitarist Chris Montague, keyboard player Kit Downes and drummer Joshua Blackmore--keep many things simple on their second album, Moxxy. One-word band name, album title and song titles keep things nice and easy. The album cover--a faux '50s Russian propaganda poster and a departure from Edition Records' usual visual style--maintains ...
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