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Karen Johns & Company: Peach
by Edward Blanco
The multi-talented Karen Johns is known not only as a singer, but also as a songwriter, actress and a playwright. The highly entertaining and truly sweet Peach, by Johns & Company, features songs from her swing-jazz musical play, Once There Was A Peach. Their third jazz album and eighth overall, the group delivers an exciting, infectious ...
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed
by AAJ Italy Staff
C'è da domandarsi se nella carriera della pianista giapponese questo disco rappresenti una tappa mirata ma isolata, oppure un'evoluzione consapevole e duratura, in grado di proiettarsi nel futuro. Infatti la musica scaturisce da un approfondimento del Min-Yoh, cioè della musica folklorica giapponese “che, suonata da dilettanti ed arrangiata collettivamente dagli esecutori, presenta una bellezza derivata dalla ...
Kate McGarry: Girl Talk
by Mark Corroto
Someone should tell vocalists today--at least the ones we see on those TV talent hunts--that singing doesn't have to be some exercise in screaming self-annihilation, that beauty and style is more about composure and command. You could tell them, or you can hip them to Girl Talk, by Kate McGarry.McGarry, a jazz vocalist, has ...
Joel Harrison 7: Search
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il recente Holy Abyss con il bassista italiano Lorenzo Feliciati (pubblicato da Cuneiform pochi mesi fa) sembrava avere distolto almeno un po' il bravo chitarrista americano dal suo mondo fatto da incroci improbabili fra generi solitamente lontani come il jazz contemporaneo e la musica classica del novecento. Questo album intitolato Search, appena pubblicato dall'etichetta Sunnyside, gli ...
Hendrik Meurkens / Gabriel Espinosa: Celebrando
by Dan Bilawsky
Defining the Zoho imprint as a “World Music" label is a bit of a misnomer, but label head Joachim “Jochen" Becker does seem to have a global outlook when it comes to artist signings. Afro-Cuban music, British blues, Argentine sounds, R&B, Asian-jazz hybrids, Brazilian jazz, and vocal projects have all found a home at Zoho. Some ...
Matteo Sabattini: Dawning
by Ian Patterson
Perhaps due to New York's dynamism--and no doubt in part the result of the city's pivotal role in jazz's history--New York jazz ensembles are frequently characterized by bold playing and a hard edge that's arguably less common in many European jazz groups. Italian-born alto saxophonist Matteo Sabattini's New York Quintet builds a bridge between a melodic ...
Skogen: Ist gefallen in den Schnee
by John Eyles
Ist gefallen in den Schnee, lasting sixty-one minutes, consists entirely of a November 2010 recording of the title composition by Magnus Granberg. For the recording Granberg's group Skogen--in which he plays piano--is expanded to a nonet including two non-Swedish guest musicians, Angarad Davies on violin and Toshimaru Nakamura on his instrument of choice, the no-input mixing ...
Dino Saluzzi - Anja Lechner - Felix Saluzzi: Navidad de los Andes
by AAJ Italy Staff
La regione di La Puna, nelle Ande. Quegli altipiani sospesi tra cielo e terra, tra vulcani e ampi silenzi, con la natura a farla da padrone. E la delicatezza di un bimbo, il miracolo della nascita, la festa del Natale. Questo lo scenario che fa da sfondo a “Navidad de los Andes," album in cui sin ...
Twelves: The Adding Machine
by Glenn Astarita
The addition of guitarist Rob Updegraff to Twelves, the U.K. band that started as a trio in 2008, tenders a compact yet expandable group focusing largely centered on asymmetrical pulses, layered sound-sculpting, and toggling between the misty divisions of free jazz and free-bop. The guitarist and saxophonist Mark Hanslip act as searchers perched atop oscillating currents, ...
Jeff Covell: Thin Air Tango
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non fatevi trarre in inganno dal titolo. Thin Air Tango non è l'ennesimo disco dedicato alla musica della passione e della sensualità per eccellenza, o una delle innumerevoli rivisitazioni/emulazioni del genio di Astor Piazzolla. Per la verità il tango è soltanto una delle sorgenti stilistiche che alimentano la musica di questo intrigante duo. Jeff Covell (apprezzato ...
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