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Steve Kuhn: Wisteria

Read "Wisteria" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Context, they say, is everything. With nearly 50 albums as a leader in a career that now spans 55 years--and stints with everyone from saxophonist Stan Getz and flugelhornist Art Farmer to trumpeter Kenny Dorham...even a brief stint with saxophonist John Coltrane--pianist Steve Kuhn's best and most varied work has been across the now-ten albums recorded ...

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Andrei Kondakov - Arkady Shilkloper - Vladimir Volkov: Outline

Read "Outline" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Quando si inserisce nel lettore un CD della Leo Records, pur consapevoli della massima libertà che questa etichetta lascia ai propri musicisti, viene naturale aspettarsi un certo tipo di musica, di atmosfere, di sonorità. Questo Outline, però, riserva delle sorprese sin dalle prime note. Un'intro per solo piano, dolcissima, sospesa, armonicamente e melodicamente intrigante. Non fosse ...

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Paolo Badiini 4et: Save the Flag

Read "Save the Flag" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Paolo Badiini è uno di quei (non frequentissimi) musicisti capaci di far convivere pienamente nella loro vita artistica il jazz e la classica. Membro da quindici anni della Slovenska Filharmonija di Lubiana, ma con alle spalle altre prestigiose collaborazioni con istituzioni sinfoniche, Badiini ha sempre coltivato il jazz e ne dà prova in questo Save the ...

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Henry P. Warner / Earl Freeman / Philip Spigner: Freestyle Band

Read "Freestyle Band" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

The Lithuania-based No Business label might seem an unlikely champion for the loft jazz of late '70s/early '80s New York City, but its track record speaks for itself. Rescued from obscurity, Freestyle Band follows on from 2010's acclaimed Muntu Recordings Box, Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1980-1983 and 2011's splendid Black Man's Blues / New York Collage. ...

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Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Read "Smul's Paradise" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

L'incontro tra un sax baritono e una ritmica costituita da un trio con organo Hammond, chitarra e batteria ha dell'insolito. Inconsueto è, di conseguenza, il risultato timbrico. Proprio il suono scuro, temperato dalle escursioni al registro acuto della chitarra, è l'elemento più sperimentale di un disco che, per il resto, è dichiaratamente e felicemente di genere. ...

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Jazz Punks: Smashups

Read "Smashups" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

The conceit of the Los Angeleno Jazz Punks' debut is an appealing one: creative arrangements combining ("mashing up") really well-known jazz tunes ("Take The 'A' Train," “A Night In Tunisia," “Take Five") with really well known rock 'n' roll tunes ("Foxy Lady," “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?," “Misty Mountain Hop"). The jazz is mostly ...

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Mike Freeman: The Vibesman

Read "The Vibesman" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The sound of the vibraphone glows--a ringing and sustained sonic luminescence. Current masters of the instrument include Gary Burton, Joe Locke, Bobby Hutcherson, and the perhaps lesser-known but also masterful Mike Freeman. With his percussion-soaked group Zonavibe--that includes, besides the vibes, the sounds of marimba, and kalimba, congas, bongos, campana and timbales--Freeman stirs up ...

Article: Album Review

Ethel String Quartet: Heavy

Read "Heavy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

È grazie al lavoro pionieristico di interpreti come il Kronos Quartet e compositori come John Zorn se le barriere tra la musiche di origine accademica e quelle di matrice popolare sono state definitivamente abbattute con effetti che si vedono sia nei programmi di concerto che nella composizione del pubblico. Tra i tanti gruppi nati in seguito ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Numbers

Read "Numbers" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

What's the difference between composition and improvisation once the music has been committed to disc? At that point even the wildest flights of fancy become fixed and immutable, able to be reheated and pored over at leisure. One difference may lie in the notation-defying musical characteristics integral to the finest improvisations: continual variation of tone and ...

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McCormack & Yarde Duo: Places and Other Spaces

Read "Places and Other Spaces" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Sono da tenere d'occhio i dischi della Edition Records, giovane etichetta britannica di Cardiff fondata nel 2008 dal pianista-compositore Dave Stapleton e dal fotografo di jazz Tim Dickeson, che si è subito distinta per il livello di qualitá e originalità delle proposte. Nel suo catalogo troviamo mostri sacri come Keith Tippett e giovani promesse, alcune peraltro ...


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