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Josh Quinlan Quintet: Mountain Time Standards

Read "Mountain Time Standards" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
April 21, 2012

Although the Gold Rush is long over, the Wild West still holds out the promise of reinvention and inspiration. For saxophonist Josh Quinlan, who came of musical age in Chicago and moved to Colorado in 2006, the Front Range jazz scene has been chock-full of opportunity: he is co-director of the Telluride All-Star Program, director of ...

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Indigo Kid: Indigo Kid

Read "Indigo Kid" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 21, 2012

Indigo Kid, the eponymous debut from this UK-based quartet, is a slow burner. At first, it seems pleasant enough: strongly melodic and musically tight, with well-arranged tunes. But with each additional play the melodies get stronger and the interplay between the guitar and tenor saxophone reveals more and more depth. Third or fourth time around, the ...

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Dudley Owens / Aaron Wright Band: People Calling

Read "People Calling" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2012

Saxophonist Dudley Owens and bassist Aaron Wright bring together (in classic quintet format) a band intent on expanding the language of Miles Davis's second great quintet from within. On People Calling the band does exactly this: they create a late '60s sonic image stamped in 21st Century digital. The writing is firmly post bop, with Atlantic ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

Read "Maiden Voyage Suite" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 21, 2012

Imagine a painter, sculptor or writer attempting to recreate a masterpiece done by a Picasso, Michelangelo or Shakespeare. The task redefines challenge and chutzpah. While jazz recreations are more common than those in other arts--Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra's marvelous revisit (Americana Music, 2004) of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958), ...

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George Crowley Quartet: Paper Universe

Read "Paper Universe" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 20, 2012

There are times on Paper Universe, George Crowley's debut album, when the young saxophonist and composer sounds like he's been sitting by the side of Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young. There are times when he flies out of the speakers like he invented hard bop. Then a few minutes later he's creating long, flowing melodic lines ...

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Nabatov-Reijseger-Schubert: Square Down

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 20, 2012

Nessun preambolo, nessuna introduzione, nessun avvertimento su quello che sarà. “Long Haul" scaraventa l'ascoltatore nel bel mezzo di un uragano sonoro, in balia degli eventi, sballottato da una parte all'altra con tangibile violenza, tra vorticosi turbinii di note e una massa densa, assordante, che annichilisce la capacità di pensiero e porta al parossismo ogni tipo di ...

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Spike Wilner: La Tendresse

Read "La Tendresse" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 20, 2012

Joy.But having been told that one word reviews aren't sufficient, how about this: Pianist Spike Wilner's disc La Tendresse is pure joy.Wilner can probably best be described as an old soul occupying a modernist corpus. His foundations in ragtime and stride piano inform the music heard here, but like Thelonious Monk, he ...

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Valentino Tamponi: Turchese

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 20, 2012

Insieme ai suoi fidati compagni di viaggio - Emiliano Vernizzi ai sassofoni, Paolo Dassi al contrabbasso e Carlo Garof alla batteria - il chitarrista sardo Valentino Tamponi realizza un album dalle ambientazioni calde e suggestive, fatte di melodie lineari e dal grande senso lirico. Questo grazie anche all'apporto espressivo fornito da Vernizzi, il quale pennella deliziose ...

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Mari Wilson: Cover Stories

Read "Cover Stories" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
April 20, 2012

Back in the 1980s, when she was renowned for her retro beehive hairstyle and her spectacular live shows, Mari Wilson had a string of chart-making hits that included “Just What I Always Wanted" and “Cry Me a River." These days, the only remaining vestige of that hairstyle is in the name of her record label. More ...

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Werner Hasler - Gilbert Paeffgen - Karl Berger: Hasler - Paeffgen - Berger

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 20, 2012

Questo disco singolare ha innanzi tutto il notevole pregio di suscitare importanti considerazioni di carattere generale. Un primo approfondimento meriterebbero le formazioni anomale nel jazz attuale. Questo sodalizio fra tromba, vibrafono, batteria ed elettronica risulta davvero interessante, ben amalgamato, capace di impasti timbrici suggestivi, anche grazie al peculiare impianto compositivo dei brani ed alla calibrata costruzione ...