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Busnoys: By Tapering Torchlight

Read "By Tapering Torchlight" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 11, 2012

Busnoys is named after 15th century French composer Antoine Busnoys (or Busnois). Not that this gives much away about the music on By Tapering Torchlight, the trio's follow up to its debut, San Angelo (Tall Guy Records, 2010). The fact that the band is based in Bristol in the west of England, home to Massive Attack ...

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Cristina Morrison: I Love

by Dan Bilawsky
May 11, 2012

Vocalist Cristina Morrison is as worldly and well-traveled as they come. She was born in Miami and spent time living in Rome, Quito, the Galapagos Islands and Los Angeles before landing in the Big Apple, from whence she recorded this fine debut. Morrison possesses a voice that's alternately soothing, sassy, straightforward or sly, and she brings ...

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Bol / Westerhus / Snah: Numb, number

Read "Numb, number" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 11, 2012

Norwegian trio Bol has always been a melting pot of untimely sound worlds, poetic texts and fearless, improvising character. Vocalist Tone Åse experiments with live electronics and subtle interpretations of poems, as she did on her recent collaboration with drummer Thomas Strønen, Voxpheria (Gigafon, 2012). Keyboardist Ståle Storløkken evokes progressive rock symphonies with his usage of ...

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Jerome Sabbagh: Plugged In

Read "Plugged In" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 11, 2012

New York City-based tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh has made the rounds by performing with a who's who of modern jazz artists amid his flourishing career as a solo artist. Possessing a stout tone and commanding presence, the artist's lyrically resplendent phraseology is often a good fit for a variety of jazz settings, including mainstream and the ...

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Black Hole Quartet: Black Ol' Blues

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 11, 2012

Black Ol' Blues è il secondo capitolo dell'avventura musicale targata Black Hole, un robusto quartetto di improvvisatori che si/ci diverte a proporre una musica profondamente radicata nella storia afro-americana e altrettanto sensibile a sollecitazioni e contaminazioni che ne hanno sistematicamente accompagnato l'evoluzione. Lo zoccolo duro degli storici Nexus, Tiziano Tononi alla batteria e Daniele Cavallanti al ...

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Linda Jozefowski: For My Dead Folks

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 11, 2012

È toccante la nota di presentazione che Linda Jozefowski firma all'interno di For My Dead Folks, un album dal carattere introspettivo dedicato a tre persone che non ci sono più, realizzato in un momento particolare della sua vita, dove gli eventi tragici «hanno portato l'essere umano a mettere in discussione i propri parametri esistenziali». Da questo ...

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FAS Trio: Chimeco

Read "Chimeco" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
May 11, 2012

Saxophonist Remi Álvarez explores the horizons of free improvisations through six different combinations. He plays solo, collaborates in a duo setting with drummer Gabriel Lauder and has led four trios. FAS Trio is his Mexican band, one that balances composition with freedom for often arresting results. The trio takes chances but does not defy logic, and ...

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Ablaye Cissoko / Volker Goetze: Amanke Dionti

Read "Amanke Dionti" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 10, 2012

Amanké Dionti is the most curiously beautiful record to hit shelves in the first half of 2012. Senegalese kora master Ablaye Cissoko and German trumpeter Volker Goetze have created a warm, engrossing, transcendent album that's glazed over with stark beauty and slight reverb, making it sound like a meeting of West African ideals and ECM-style production ...

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Dan Cavanagh Trio: The Heart of the Geyser

Read "The Heart of the Geyser" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 10, 2012

There's no arguing that the best of the best in the piano trio field comes from the longterm units: on the younger end of the spectrum there's Brad Mehldau's group with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, who replaced his long term predecessor in that chair, Jorge Rossy; and, of course, on the legendary end, ...

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Jean Claude Jones & Kadima Collective: Myelination

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2012

Questo intrigante e inedito progetto realizzato dal contrabbassista Jean Claude Jones con il Kadima Collective parte dalla diagnosi di sclerosi multipla che il musicista di origine tunisina si sentì comunicare nel lontano 1999. Insieme all'amico e chimico Andy Shipway, Jones decide di documentare i suoni generati dalle vibrazioni della guaina mielinica, struttura multilamellare con funzioni isolanti ...