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Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise
by John Kelman
With a surprising number of recordings coming out that represent some of drummer Paul Motian's final work before passing unexpectedly in the fall of 2011, few have created as deeply personal a tribute as the liner notes to Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi's Sunrise. “Suddenly Paul was gone. He left without warning," Kikuchi writes, as he recounts ...
Odwalla: Isis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Massimo Barbiero ama impreziosire la sua musica con elementi colti provenienti da altre forme d'espressione. Filosofia (l'Enten Eller dell'altro gruppo da lui diretto), letteratura (qui si cita Cesare Pavese nelle note di copertina e nella lunga suite che apre il CD), o altro ancora. In ogni caso, nella musica del percussionista di Ivrea si intravede sempre ...
Halie Loren: Heart First
by Dan Bilawsky
Though vocalist Halie Loren has made a name for herself by bringing her warm and inviting alto to bear on a mixture of pop and jazz classics, she has received far too little attention in the United States. Much of the praise heaped upon her comes from Japan, where her fan base is strong and plentiful, ...
Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio
by Troy Collins
Evoking the fruitful jazz and pop crossover efforts of the 1970s, pianist Robert Glasper's Experiment infuses improvisational sensibilities into an array of contemporary black music traditions, from R&B and neo-soul to funk and hip-hop. Glasper is no stranger to such collaborations; in addition to leading his own acoustic and electric ensembles, he is music director of ...
Romano Pratesi: Rubber Band Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non mancano certo esperienza e personalità alla rosa dei musicisti che accompagna Pratesi in questa esplorazione musicale alla ricerca di nuove sonorità. Rubber Band Live contiene composizioni originali di Romano Pratesi e Dave Liebman ma anche composizioni di Coleman, Cherry e Coltrane e da questo si intuisce già quale sarà il percorso delineato dalla formazione. Diversi ...
The Bill Harris Quintet: Inside-Out
by Edward Blanco
Portland, Oregon saxophonist Bill Harris is an educator, sideman and member of organist Steve Hall Quintet when not leading his own band. Growing up listening to jazz masters Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane and Phil Woods among others, he began playing woodwinds while in second grade and has favored the alto and tenor saxophones ever since. Though ...
Corroncho: Corroncho
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che ci fanno insieme un prestigioso chitarrista inglese e uno scultore colombiano? Non è mica facile da prevedere. Phil Manzanera è conosciuto principalmente per essere stato tra gli artefici principali del progetto Roxy Music. Ha poi avuto una carriera solistica tra alti e bassi (su tutti un disco importante come Primitive Guitars). Di Lucho Brieva (tra ...
Noel Catura: Soulful Situation
by Nicholas F. Mondello
San Francisco Bay Area saxophonist/flautist Noel Catura's debut, Soulful Situation, is about as smooth and soulful a debut as possible. Unlike some smooth jazz recordings--passionless, contrived, and delivered as easy listening jazz for the masses--Catura and crew withhold little in terms of expression and energy on this collection of eight original compositions. The ...
Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society
by Jeff Winbush
When you've been invited to perform for the President of the United States, turned heads as the bass-playing beauty in the Academy Awards house band, toured with Prince and beat out teen dream Justin Bieber for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, you're having a very good run in the spotlight--and it could turn your ...
Denman Maroney: Double Zero
by AAJ Italy Staff
Qualche anno fa, parlando di Denman Maroney in una recensione di Udentity, non avevo trovato di meglio che definire il suo pianoforte [o meglio il suo hyperpiano come lo chiama lui] come una sorta di “mondo" espanso, aperto, attraverso le preparazioni e le tecniche non convenzionali, a avventure espressive sempre sorprendenti. Un'ulteriore conferma viene ora da ...
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