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Sven-Ake Johansson: Die Harke und der Spaten
by Mark Corroto
Part performance piece, part free improvisation, Die Harke und der Spaten ("The Rake and the Spade") is a musical stage play composed by Swedish jazz legend Sven-Åke Johansson. This recording, made in Malmö, Sweden in 1998, features a Who's Who of European improvisers and proponents of free jazz--a European free jazz that distinguishes itself from American ...
Les Doigts de l'Homme: 1910
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra i tanti tributi dedicati al grande Django Reinhardt nel centenario della sua nascita da poco passato va inserito anche questo 1910, quarto lavoro del quartetto francese Les Doigts de l'Homme, guidato dal chitarrista Olivier Kikteff. Il repertorio è costituito prevalentemente da brani di Reinhardt e canzoni degli anni dello swing; Kikteff contribuisce con tre composizioni ...
Foxes Fox: Live at the Vortex
by John Eyles
Foxes Fox--Evan Parker on tenor saxophone, Steve Beresford on piano, John Edwards on bass and Louis Moholo-Moholo on percussion--first came together as a quartet in 1998. Live at the Vortex is, however, only their third album, following Foxes Fox (Emanem, 1999) and Naan Tso (Psi, 2005). Unlike its predecessors, this release--captured in February, 2007--was recorded live ...
Jon Corbett Dangerous Musics: Kongens Gade
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ecco un disco impeccabile nel suo genere, ma scontato e inutile in quanto non sollecita alcuna nuova riflessione rispetto a quanto è già stato scritto infinite volte su certa improvvisazione radicale di derivazione free e su buona parte dei CD della Leo. Il fluire continuo di questa performance, registrata dal vivo a Londra nel maggio 2009, ...
Boris Hauf Sextet: Next Delusion
by Glenn Astarita
Reedman Boris Hauf frequently pushes the envelope. For evidence, one need only look at his longstanding affiliation with the avant-garde, acoustic-electric Austrian band Efzeg, known for subliminal sound-sculpting mechanics and ethereal subtleties. However, his repertoire is quite extensive. Making frequent trips to Chicago over the years, he has aligned with like-minded individuals and noted improvisers, often ...
Brian Charette: Music for Organ Sextette
by Dan Bilawsky
Finding an organ in a gathering of more than four in jazz seems to be taboo, yet no logic exists behind this unspoken truth. The organ is constantly making friends with guitars and drums, with the occasional singular horn dropping by to converse with them, but the possibility of a broader social circle always seems to ...
Nico Gori / Fred Hersch: Da Vinci
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Clarinetist Nico Gori and pianist Fred Hersch both played the North Sea Jazz Festival in July 2010 and struck up a friendship riding together on the bus from the performance site to the hotel. Soon thereafter they began a series of duo gigs in Europe and New York. The studio recording Da Vinci captures the strong ...
Kenny Poole: Heritage
by Jack Huntley
Kenny Poole was a guitarist's guitarist. He never sought the limelight that others with his talents achieved, but his much admired jazz chops attracted musicians in the know. He performed with such luminaries as Jack McDuff, Tal Farlow, Joe Pass, Howard Alden and Jack Wilkins. Sadly, Poole lost his fight with cancer in 2006. But with ...
White Hills: Frying on this Rock
by Glenn Astarita
Among other things, the New York City-based space rockers White Hills will give any stereo system a workout by pushing the limits of acceptable sonic distortion, sort of like a proving grounds for aural integrity. Unabashedly loud, and progressing with a massive wall-of-sound approach, this album tenders a psycho-rock brew tinged with thrashing guitar licks amid ...
Indigo Kid: Indigo Kid
by AAJ Italy Staff
Suscita un po' di stupore ascoltare Iain Ballamy, uno degli alfieri del rinascimento del jazz inglese Anni Ottanta culminato in quella fucina di talenti denominata Loose Tubes e, successivamente, presenza fondamentale nel gruppo di jazz elettronico Food, abbandonare gli abiti da eterno monello e indossare comode pantofole da salotto. Niente di ironico e irriguardoso, ci mancherebbe, ...
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