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Dennis Rollins Velocity Trio: The 11th Gate
by Chris M. Slawecki
For more than two decades, British trombonist Dennis Rollins has played alongside Maceo Parker, Courtney Pine, The Brand New Heavies and others in and around his home base in the United Kingdom. Rollins' first international release, The 11th Gate came about from a simple conversation Rollins had with Pine, who wondered if it was possible for ...
Ralph Peterson: The Duality Perspective
by Dan Bilawsky
Balance is often overlooked in music criticism, yet it's such an important aspect in music-making and life. Light doesn't exist without dark, bold only takes shape when placed next to bland and earthbound realities are only truly understood by those who also know how to take flight. Drummer/educator Ralph Peterson understands this better than most, and ...
Nelson Veras: R/B
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nelson Veras non è quello che sembra. Gli piace depistare. Ha un nome francese, ma è nato a Salvador de Bahia (Brasile). Poco meno che ventenne si è trasferito in Francia e ha incontrato Pat Metheny. Qualche anno dopo si è messo subito in gioco con Eric Barret, Michel Benita e Aldo Romano. Ha inciso un ...
Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos: Carrera
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In his first recording since the magnificent arrangements of music of by Cuchi Leguizamon, Domador de Huellas (Sunnyside 2010), pianist Guillermo Klein has reassembled his main musical vehicle, Los Guachos, for Carrera. Here, Klein once again shows why he is such a master of manipulating the voices of the instruments he uses, bringing out subtle variations ...
Julia Ensemble: Julia Ensemble
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo breve CD (circa mezzora) documenta il lavoro portato avanti ormai da anni da un gruppo di musicisti sardi che si spingono aldilà dei generi, mescolando l'improvvisazione con ambient, minimalismo e progressive. A dominare la scena troviamo le chitarre di Raffaele Pilia e le tastiere di Valerio Baraccani, autori anche di tutte le composizioni, che si ...
Dan Clucas's Lost Iguana Ensemble: Do You Know The Ways
by Eyal Hareuveni
There is nothing conventional in the sound worlds of Los Angeles-based composer and cornetist/flutist Dan Clucas. He rarely release an album; his last official release with his Immediately quintet was Exile (pfMentum, 2006), though he released four albums in 2011 on his Bandcamp page, two of which were solo recordings and solos/duos with a computer program. ...
Jakob Bro: Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jakob Bro è un ancor giovane chitarrista danese (classe 1978) che sta incominciando a ricevere i giusti riconoscimenti e le dovute attenzioni, non solo per le sue collaborazioni con leggendari musicisti come Tomasz Stanko, Paul Motian e Bill Frisell. Le incisioni per la sua Loveland Records ci mostrano l'evoluzione da un neo bop de-strutturato e contaminato ...
Fela Kuti: Live in Detroit 1986
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nonostante un paio di figli che portano in giro il nome di famiglia e una certa moda afrobeat [sempre sia lodata!] che si sostenta ottimamente con vecchie glorie e nuovi virgulti, la partita finisce senza storia quando sul piatto si mette l'aureo peso specifico di Fela Kuti. A distanza di un ventennio dal suo ultimo disco ...
Rhett Frazier, Inc: Every Day is Saturday
by Chris M. Slawecki
Rhett Frazier, Inc. might be based in East Los Angeles, but its music was first baked in the working class breadbasket of the American Midwest: Songwriter and vocalist Rhett Frazier grew up in Oklahoma, less than half an hour's distance from the home or birthplace of legendary soulmen Roy Milton ("the father of modern R&B") and ...
Ben Riley: Grown Folks Music
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ben Riley is best-described as a drummer who has always been the epitome of great taste, elegance and almost certainly possessed of a higher musical intelligence. There is no better recommendation for this than the fact that Thelonious Monk hired him as a drummer, but if further proof were requested , then all that needs doing ...
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