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Will Bernard Trio: Outdoor Living
by Doug Collette
As if capturing the Will Bernard Trio caught up in a rush of inspiration, both the initial and concluding pairs of tracks on Outdoor Living are sequenced together without breaks between. It's an appropriate production touch for an album on which the participants are clearly feeding on each others' ideas and building on the individual and ...
Brian Patneaude: All Around Us
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
On All Around Us, Albany, New York saxophonist Brian Patneaude's solid quartet delivers a high energy, straight-ahead jazz date.As a saxophonist, Patneaude solos transparently and has a bright sound, set off by a hard-edged technical competence that will remind some of Michael Brecker, as on the complicated line of “Blucocele." On Bronisław Kaper's “Invitation," ...
Flippo Music: Tao Tunes
by AAJ Italy Staff
È il “Taoismo" ad influenzare l'immaginario musicale di Flippo spingendolo a rielaborare i testi di diciassette capitoli del “Tao Te Ching" inserendoli poi in altrettante composizioni originali. Le direzioni stilistiche in cui sono ambientati i brani vanno dalla bossa nova al rock passando dal tango alla samba e molte altre ancora. La formazione mostra flessibilità e ...
Simon Nabatov: Spinning Songs of Herbie Nichols
by Glenn Astarita
A heralded outsider, Russian pianist Simon Nabatov imparts a personal spin on a selection of legendary jazz pianist Herbie Nichols' discography. Here, Nabatov performs solo, exuding his habitual creative sparks during these interrogations and investigations of Nichols' often-overlooked body of work. Featuring integrations of traditional jazz applications with austere classicism, bop, world-beat grooves and more, the ...
Alec Spiegelman - Lefteris Kordis - Thor Thorvaldsson: Bebop Trio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Alec Spiegelman, Lefteris Kordis e Thor Thorvaldsson affrontano con lucidità e coerenza una sorta di suite che pesca da brani originali e da celebri cavalli di battaglia del bebop. La loro bravura progettuale e strumentale permette a queste due tipologie di materiale di fondersi elegantemente senza perdere energia. Alec Spiegelman sceglie il clarinetto e lascia nel ...
Adrian Cunningham: Walkabout
by Edward Blanco
One of Australia's finest jazz musicians, Saxophonist Adrian Cunningham has been busy leading The Adrian Cunningham Quartet in venues around his country of birth, establishing himself as a fixture in New York's vibrant jazz scene since his relocation in 2008. Recorded in Cunningham's home town of Sydney, Australia, Walkabout is a tasteful slice of modern jazz ...
Dimitri Grechi Espinoza - Tito Mangialajo Rantzer: When We Forgot the Melody
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quaranta minuti di musica completamente improvvisata, sviluppata da due musicisti aperti e coraggiosi come Espinoza e Mangialajo Rantzer, che oltre tutto si conoscono assai bene e possono far valere la loro intesa: già queste premesse basterebbero a rendere appetitoso questo ennesimo interessante lavoro della Rudi Records. Ma se ci aggiungiamo che - come indica il titolo ...
Darius Jones Quartet: Book Of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)
by John Sharpe
Saxophonist Darius Jones has rung the changes on each of his widely acclaimed leadership dates. Book Of Mae'bul subverts expectations again with an all new quartet drawn from NYC's finest, who shift between intricate script and flowing invention in the blink of an eye. Together they navigate eight of Jones' compositions, which tend towards order rather ...
Kate McGarry: Girl Talk
by Dan Bilawsky
While the world has no shortage of fine female singers, few have the musical depth, sense of passion and artistic ambitions of the divine Kate McGarry. It's doubtful that any other jazz singer could convincingly cover The Cars, weave their way through pianist Fred Hersch's take on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and triumphantly match wits, ...
Paolo Botti Quartet: Slight Imperfection
by AAJ Italy Staff
A due anni dal disco d'esordio Looking Back e dopo lo splendido lavoro in solitudine attorno alla musica di Albert Ayler, Angels & Ghosts, Paolo Botti (clicca qui per leggere una sua intervista) torna a registrare con il suo quartetto e a esplorare in modo moderno le radici blues del jazz. Le atmosfere non sono lontane ...
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