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Ja Vigiu Plamja: To Infinity and Beyond

Read "To Infinity and Beyond" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

El Gallo Rojo è una delle poche, pochissime, realtà che testimoniano con assiduità e costanza i molti fermenti che animano la scena musicale italiana più creativa e stimolante. Sicuramente è l'etichetta che più di altre, vi è ormai un corposo catalogo a provarlo, ha nella trasversalità un proprio tratto distintivo riuscendo nel contempo a mantenere alto ...

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Nikki Iles: Hush

Read "Hush" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

The transatlantic band that created Hush--British pianist Nikki Iles, and American bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Jeff Williams--had never played together as a trio before their single rehearsal session on the night prior to recording at Dave Bennett's New Jersey studio in September 2010. That the album sounds like the product of years of collaboration is ...

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Stefano Bollani Trio: Volare

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Si tratta dell'edizione per il mercato italiano di Volare, l'album registrato nel luglio 2002 da Stefano Bollani in trio con Walter Paoli e Ares Tavolazzi, finora disponibile nel circuito discografico giapponese su etichetta Venus Records. È con questo lavoro che il pianista ha iniziato a farsi conoscere anche in terra nipponica, dopo che il suo talento ...

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Nico Gori Millenovecento: Shadows

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Secondo disco, quattro anni dopo quello d'esordio (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione), per il quartetto Millenovecento di Nico Gori, che presenta qui due novità: la sostituzione del contrabbassista, che è ora Stefano Senni, e la presenza come ospite in quattro brani di Tom Harrell al flicorno. I brani in programma sono tutti originali, a firma ...

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Matthew Bourne: Montauk Variations

Read "Montauk Variations" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Still on the shy side of 40, British pianist Matthew Bourne has accomplished more, in a relatively short time, than many do in a lifetime. Bourne has leaned farther to the left for most of his career, experimenting in both acoustic and electric environs with a free-thinking approach informed, to some extent, by Annette Peacock, that ...

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Article: Album Review

Lola Danza: The Island

Read "The Island" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Singer/composer Lola Danza is not a multicultural artistic presence, she is a pan-cultural artistic presence. This is fully exploited on her ensemble recording, Janya (Evolver, 2011). Her singing and songwriting hover in the neighborhood of jazz because terms like “new age" and “world music" don't seem to quite cover it. Live Free (Evolver, 2009) was exactly ...

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Lauren Kinsella & Alex Huber: All This Talk About

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by Ian Patterson

In the thirty minutes of improvised vocals and drums (a daring premise to begin with) on All This Talk About, Lauren Kinsella and Alex Huber-- from Ireland and Switzerland, respectively--forge a rare and exotic partnership. The high-wire acrobatics of Kinsella--emitting a Joycean stream of consciousness with all manner of articulations, both syllabic and non-syllabic--will prove challenging ...

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Nico Gori - Fred Hersch: Da Vinci

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Dopo Shadows, che l'ha visto ospitare in quattro brani Tom Harrell, Nico Gori documenta con Da Vinci la sua collaborazione col pianista Fred Hersch, altra figura eccelsa del jazz contemporaneo. Il duo non è affatto occasionale e l'album era atteso. Gori ed Hersch s'erano conosciuti nel 2009 al North Sea Jazz Festival, condividendo il palco nella ...

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Gene Ess: A Thousand Summers

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by Edward Blanco

In a rare departure for Gene Ess, who has always favored original music and instrumentals, the veteran jazz guitarist has partnered with acclaimed vocalist and bassist Nicki Parrott for A Thousand Summers, a refined album of familiar jazz standards and love songs. When Ess began developing the project, he naturally focused on new material. One day ...

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Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Orchestra: The Sound of a Dream

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Dal quinto disco dell'orchestra inventata (all'inizio dello scorso decennio) e diretta da Rudolph fluisce un immenso quanto affascinante magma sonoro. Vi si riuniscono decine di archi e fiati e all'orizzonte si delinea una sorta di battaglia perenne tra improvvisazione totale, strutture costruite su immensi lastricati sonori, momenti ripetitivi, corpose sezioni e una sorta di sinfonismo contemporaneo ...


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