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Phronesis: Walking Dark
by Bruce Lindsay
As the pile of talented and exciting piano trios continues to grow ever higher, it takes a very talented and exciting threesome to rise to the top and stay there. Enter Phronesis. Up on the peak with its third album--the award-winning Alive (Edition Records, 2010), Jazz Album Of The Year in both Jazzwise and Mojo magazines--the ...
In One Wind: How Bright a Shadow!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sono in sei, vengono da Brooklyn e hanno intenzione di stupire. Portano con loro un bagaglio di idee musicali che solo all'apparenza sembra disordinato. Può essere il loro alt country? Non è così. Fanno del folk? Sì, ma non proprio. Sono oltre il jazz? Può anche essere. Fanno i rockettari? A volte anche. In realtà, la ...
Dmitry Baevsky: The Composers
by David A. Orthmann
In some respects, The Composers is cut from the same cloth as Down With It, Dmitry Baevsky's 2010 release on Sharp Nine. The alto saxophonist selects seldom-played compositions from the jazz canon and executes thoughtful interpretations, so that the heads of tunes like Cedar Walton's “Ojos de Rojo," Wayne Shorter's “Mister Chairman," and Duke Ellington's “Self ...
Bryan and the Haggards: Still Alive and Kickin' Down the Walls
by AAJ Italy Staff
Torna la country-free-jazz band più divertente e fracassona di Hollywood. Brian and the Haggards, vale a dire il sassofonista Bryan Murray alla testa del suo improbabile quintetto di cowboy metropolitani: Jon Irabagon alle ance, Moppa Elliott al contrabbasso (metà dei Mostly Other People Do the Killing), il batterista Danny Fischer e il chitarrista Jon Lundbom (quello ...
Gabriel Vicens: Point in Time
by Dan Bilawsky
When Berklee beckons, most aspiring jazz musicians pick themselves up and trek to Boston to further their studies, but guitarist Gabriel Vicens isn't most people. While the young guitarist had a scholarship lined up at that venerable learning institution, he opted to stay in his native habitat and study at the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico. ...
Gary Husband: Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2
by Ian Patterson
With friends as talented as those of pianist/drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband, the musical possibilities are mouthwatering and seemingly endless. With a riotous assembly of jazz fusion greats playing their butts off, Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2 follows suit from Dirty & Beautiful Volume 1 (Abstract Logix, 2010). Several threads tie the two records together. Many of the ...
Joe McPhee - Michael Zerang: Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Suite)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Joe McPhee fa parte degli improvvisatori più prolifici su disco, ma anche di quelli più ignorati. Piuttosto schivo, concentrato soltanto sulla musica, è invece tra i musicisti più riflessivi e in relazione con ciò che lo circonda. Questo bel duetto con il percussionista Michael Zerang è legato a memorie di New Orleans e di tutta la ...
Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi recorded a session with the late trumpeter Miles Davis in 1978 that was never released. Had it been, the Japanese musician could perhaps have been slung by Davis' Jovian presence/influence to greater fame. As it is, Kikuchi has maintained a career as an iconoclastic artist, collaborating with some of the best jazz players. ...
Martin Pickett: Lyric Pieces
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con questo disco l'etichetta Slam Records di George Haslam ribadisce una verità elementare: il jazz comprende una pluralità di linguaggi che hanno pieno diritto d'esprimersi creativamente. Il cuore di questo disco è il trio 3PBM composto dal pianista Martin Pickett, dal bassista Paul Jefferies e dal batterista Ben Twyford allargato con l'inclusione della tromba e flicorno ...
Herculaneum: Uchu
by AAJ Italy Staff
Fin dagli esordi la band chicagoana, Herculaneum si caratterizza per un baricentro musicale assai composito che sa integrare le suggestioni ritmiche del progressive rock con la più classica improvvisazione jazzistica. Per molti versi ci troviamo di fronte ad un work in progress che investe prima di tutto la formazione, soggetta sempre a cambiamenti funzionali al percorso ...
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