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Matthieu Marthouret: Upbeats

Read "Upbeats" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Giunge alla seconda prova discografica l'Organ Quartet di Matthieu Marthouret: Upbeats, uscito da poco per la Double Moon Records, continua il percorso cominciato nel 2009 con Playground. Il pianista francese, nativo di Grenoble, ma ormai parigino a tutti gli effetti, dove risiede da qualche anno, è innegabilmente attratto dal soul jazz, tipico degli anni d'oro della ...

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TriBeCaStan: New Deli

Read "New Deli" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

TriBeCaStan is a mythical kingdom or mystical state (or both) founded by John Kruth and Jeff Greene, built upon music brought within its walls from Western China, Cuba, Morocco, Uzbekistan and just about any and every where else. For New Deli, their second official “state communication," TriBeCaStan's population expands to include Claire Daly, baritone sax ace ...

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Antonio Onorato: Breathing

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Secondo quanto riporta Wikipedia, Antonio Onorato è l'unico musicista al Mondo a utilizzare la Breath Guitar - Yamaha G10 (o chitarra a fiato), strumento caratterizzato dal poter essere suonato proprio come un sassofono grazie a un Breath Controller (imboccatura simile a quella di uno strumento a fiato). Sta di fatto che in Breathing il nostro mette ...

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Jazz Soul Seven: Impressions of Curtis Mayfield

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by Edward Blanco

Paying homage to one of the most influential and important artists in the past century, the Jazz Soul Seven collective tips its hat to Curtis Mayfield on Impressions of Curtis Mayfield, an instrumental re-imagining of twelve of the R&B, funk and soul singer's most popular compositions. A voice of African-American pride, Mayfield was a socially-conscious artist ...

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Miles Okazaki: Figurations

Read "Figurations" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Guitarist Miles Okazaki's Figurations is a fascinating document of how musical invention takes place on the spur of the moment. It is not a mad conglomeration of notes that come out in jagged clusters, but a mellifluous harmolodic excursion by four spectacular musicians as they begin to create music on each of their instruments, with their ...

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Szilard Mezei Wind Quartet: Innen

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Se è vero che il jazz è una musica di sintesi, che ha come tratto essenziale la creatività individuale e collettiva, questo ne è un magnifico esempio, pur con una forma molto vicina alla classica contemporanea (intrisa d'inflessioni folk dell'area serba e ungherese). In questo secondo lavoro del Wind Quartet di Mezei ritroviamo l'anomala formazione dalla ...

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Randy Hoexter: Fromage

Read "Fromage" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

In manufacturing, it's nearly impossible to work with substandard raw materials and wind up with a high quality finished product. While the same tenet often holds true in music, pianist Randy Hoexter is out to prove that the manner of presentation can overcome the matter itself. On the aptly titled Fromage, Hoexter rearranges ...

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Javier Girotto - Luciano Biondini: Iguazù

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Collaboratori di antica data, sia in duo che in gruppi più ampi, Girotto e Biondini sono musicisti che uniscono le doti di raffinati compositori, di eccellenti strumentisti e, soprattutto, di fantasiosi e passionali improvvisatori. In questo lavoro documentano la loro intesa, sia in studio (registrazione del marzo 2011, presente su CD), sia dal vivo (quattro tracce ...

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Keith Pray: Confluence

Read "Confluence" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

When not leading the 17-piece Big Soul Ensemble, the Soul Jazz Revival group or the New Orleans-style Mohawk Brass Band, bandleader, educator and alto saxophonist Keith Pray fronts a hard-swinging quartet performing at venues in Albany and throughout the Capital District of upstate New York. Confluence is his fifth recording as leader, a project he designed ...

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Marco Colonna - Francesco Lo Cascio - Lillo Quaratino: Domino's Tales

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Racconti che sembrano quadri. Storie narrate attraverso pennellate, colpi di spatole decisi, ma anche pennarelli che spandono macchie di colore dai contorni sfumati. In Domino's Tales arte affabulatoria e sensibilità pittorica trovano un fertile punto di incontro nella mente e negli strumenti dei tre protagonisti, oltre che nella splendida opera di Ezio Peccheneda esibita sulla copertina ...


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