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Pekka Pylkkänen Tube Factory: Listen!

Read "Listen!" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Pekka Pylkkänen è un artista piuttosto noto in Finlandia e nei paesi nordici, dove ha suonato come ospite nei gruppi di tanti americani ed in big band. Ha cominciato con la UMO Orchestra e poi continuato ovunque ci fosse da suonare, creando parallelamente il suo gruppo con cui è giunto ora alla terza incisione. Basta ascoltarlo ...

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Article: Album Review

Lola Danza: The Island

Read "The Island" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Vocalist Lola Danza has always been an original thinker, but that doesn't get you very far in a field crowded with people fitting that description. What makes Danza stand out is her strength of vision and steadfast commitment to following her muse, no matter how non-commercial it may be. With Janya (Evolver, 2011), Danza and her ...

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Kate McGarry: Girl Talk

Read "Girl Talk" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Girl Talk è il sesto album della vocalist del Massachusetts, Kate McGarry, che ritorna sulla scena discografica rivisitando dieci standard della canzone americana, avvalendosi della produzione del marito chitarrista Keith Ganz. Il talento vocale della McGarry viene fuori nel blues ovattato della title-track, mentre brani come “I Just Found Out About Love" e “It's a Wonderful ...

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Carmen Lundy: Changes

Read "Changes" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal

Contemporary jazz vocalists, caught in the current trend to accelerate their careers, are often indistinguishable from the pack, the essence of their music lost in haste. With her release of Changes , veteran singer Carmen Lundy proves that this premise does not apply to her, rising to that proverbial summit to enjoy the rarefied air of ...

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Bobby Bradford - Mark Dresser - Glen Ferris: Live in LA

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Bobby Bradford, uno dei miglior trombettisti emersi dal free jazz e dalle zone contigue all'avanguardia, partner di Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, autore con il clarinettista John Carter di una manciata di dischi pregevoli, rientra a buon diritto nell'ampia schiera di unsung heroes, musicisti che hanno dato un contributo di notevole importanza all'evoluzione della musica ...

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SoSaLa: Nu World Trash

Read "Nu World Trash" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

SoSaLa is the brainchild of vocalist, saxophonist, music activist and native Iranian Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, who fuses Persian influences with Western instrumentation amid indigenous platforms, summoning the Middle Eastern contingent. A well-travelled musician, Ladjevardi immerses his craft into quite a few projects and multifaceted ensemble-based frameworks. He resides in New York City, and as the story ...

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Jurg Wickihalder European Quartet feat. Irene Schweizer: Jump !

Read "Jump !" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Wickihalden è un ottimo sassofonista della scena free svizzera, già validissimo collaboratore di Irene Schweizer, Pierre Favre e l'Omri Ziegele Billiger Bauer. Ma sul suo più recente disco pesano due influenze che alla fine lo rendono per lo più derivativo. Sia pur con liberi innesti di free-form di maniera, le cinque tracce guardano a Monk e ...

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Ebo Taylor: Appia Kwa Bridge

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Se ci si pensa, il generale trend “retromaniaco" e la fortuna artistica di vecchi leoni della musica africana vanno abbastanza a braccetto. Tra l'altro con il grande vantaggio, per chi si è mosso sempre nell'ambito di musiche non occidentali [magari ritornando magicamente dopo anni di latitanza], di poter riproporre traiettorie non troppo dissimili da quelle di ...

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Article: Album Review

Taurey Butler: Taurey Butler

Read "Taurey Butler" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

A keen interest in learning and a predilection for Oscar Peterson-style piano playing seem to be the two biggest guiding forces behind pianist Taurey Butler's life journey thus far. The New Jersey native started on piano in his youth, but put the instrument on the back burner until a Peterson-produced epiphany rekindled his interest in the ...

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Swingadelic: The Other Duke - Tribute to Duke Pearson

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Divertente. È questo il primo aggettivo che salta in mente dopo aver ascoltato le dieci tracce di The Other Duke - Tribute to Duke Pearson, il nuovo lavoro firmato Swingadelic. Questo perché la musica del pianista e compositore Duke Pearson, qui omaggiata in maniera molto fedele ai tratti originali, porta dentro di sé una vitalità contagiosa ...


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