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Cristina Morrison: I Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Cristina Morrison is also quite the lyricist as she demonstrates in spades on I Love. Original compositions like “Summer in New York" are beautifully carnal while the title track is a celebration of art and free spirits. Swing is the vitamin that nourishes this music, catalyzing a fine extended band to pitch-perfect performance. This is ...
Fulvio Sigurtà - Claudio Filippini: Through the Journey
by AAJ Italy Staff
Fulvio Sigurtà e Claudio Filippini, due tra le più belle realtà del panorama jazzistico italiano, mettono insieme le loro forze per dar vita a Through the Journey, un album dalla notevole cifra espressiva, giocato su lunghi dialoghi e confronti tesi alla ricerca della bellezza melodica. Nell'ora di musica proposta c'è un giusto grado di introspezione, ottenuto ...
Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble: A Fresh Take
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nato dalle ventennali esperienze di rielaborazione della tradizione ebraica del pianista e leader Eugene Marlow e del batterista Bobby Sanabria, A Fresh Take riprende e riarrangia il materiale già edito nel 2006 nel primo lavoro della formazione, Making the Music Our Own, alla ricerca di sviluppi originali della musica yiddish attraverso l'impiego di stilemi del jazz, ...
John Zorn: Nosferatu
by Thomas Carroll
The idea of saxophonist/composer John Zorn writing music to accompany a production about vampires has exciting implications. After all, it would seem logical that a man who has, over the past 40 years, helped expand the scope of sounds that can be considered music should be able to craft something truly mind-bending when dealing with such ...
Dialogues Trio with Julian Siegel: Twinkle Twinkle
by Glenn Astarita
The UK-based Dialogues Trio was formed in 2005 and is led by pianist Bruno Heinen, who sports an insightful compositional pen here on the band's debut, Twinkle Twinkle. The musicians often radiate a workingman's type process, where no dillydallying or inflated soloing escapades rule the roost. Featuring reedman Julian Siegel, lending his wares on select tracks, ...
Steve Lyman: Revolver
by Bruce Lindsay
Drummer Steve Lyman makes his debut as leader with Revolver, a mini-album of original compositions clocking in at just over 27 minutes. Brevity is the soul of wit, of course, and Lyman wisely avoids the desire to throw everything he has onto his first recording. The result is a concise, sharp, collection with a laidback, meditative ...
Ryan Truesdell: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi semina vento, raccoglie tempesta. Ma chi semina arte e genialità raccoglie amore e passione. Forse questa, in estrema sintesi è la morale dell'omaggio che Ryan Truesdell ha voluto dedicare all'arrangiatore canadese Gil Evans, uno degli artisti più importanti del secolo scorso. Geniale e umile allo stesso tempo, anticonformista e giovane fino alla fine, Gil è ...
Enrico Pieranunzi: Permutation
by C. Michael Bailey
Italy's jazz piano poet, Enrico Pieranunzi, records with his “American Trio"--bassist Scott Colley and drummer Antonio Sanchez--on Permutation, a collection of original Pieranunzi compositions that concentrate on percussive motifs and rhythmic variations. Pieranunzi's résumé is long and varied, and Permutation shows the pianist has no plans in slowing down his musical explorations.For all of ...
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Clean on the Corner
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Ogni tanto ci vuole". Avevo chiuso con queste parole, un po' di mesi fa, la recensione di una nuova avventura musicale di Mike Reed con la sua Loose Assembly, Empathetic Parts. Era una scelta nemmeno tanto ironica per chiosare un gran bel disco ma, specialmente, per incensare il nome ormai “santo" del batterista che forse più ...
Jon Gold: Bossa of Possibility
by Jerry D'Souza
Keyboardist Jon Gold continues where he left off with Brazil Confidential (Blujazz Records, 2011) and his love for Brazilian and Latin jazz. He brings back several of the musicians from that date to help essay 12 new compositions which ease into terrain that goes beyond his root calling. He adds to the mood of the music ...
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