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Marshall Gilkes: Sound Stories

Read "Sound Stories" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 22, 2012

Lyrical strains and muscular machinations are a counterintuitive combination, but trombonist Marshall Gilkes is living proof that they need not be mutually exclusive methods of musical dissemination. Gilkes has made a name for himself through his work with Colombian harp hero Edmar Castaneda, the Maria Schneider Orchestra and many others, but the full scope of his ...

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Jeff Gauthier Goatette: Open Source

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2012

Il Goatette di Jeff Gauthier è una delle formazioni più interessanti che operano nella West Coast americana, spostandosi senza soluzione di continuità fra un jazz molto spiritato e il rock progressivo più denso. Una sorta di Mahavishnu Orchestra diretta dal violinista invece che dal chitarrista. Rispetto alle prove precedenti abbiamo l'inserimento della tromba di John Fumo, ...

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Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side

Read "Upper West Side" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 22, 2012

Upper West Side is as fine a duet album as has been made by a pianist with another instrumentalist. This declaration may very possibly include the albums made by Hank Jones with Tommy Flanagan and Oscar Peterson with Dizzy Gillespie. It is a credit to pianist Ehud Asherie that he made this album at such a ...

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Kidd Jordan: On Fire

Read "On Fire" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 22, 2012

Tenor saxophonist Edward “Kidd" Jordan is one those rare musicians who is able to imbue the freest, most advanced improvisations with extreme lyricism and build complex harmonies out of dissonant notes. On Fire showcases his sublime musicianship to the fullest. On “Officer, that Big Knife Cuts My Sax Reeds," Jordan's breaths fire on ...

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Claire Dickson: Scattin' Doll

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2012

È una adolescente dal talento molto precoce la cantante che troviamo alle prese con la raccolta di standards contenuta in Scattin' Doll. È stato il padre Glenn Dickson, che qui suona il clarinetto basso in un'originale versione di “Caravan," che ha notato la sua passione per la musica di Ella Fitzgerald ed il talento, veramente sorprendente, ...

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Laszlo Gardony: Signature Time

Read "Signature Time" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2012

Il pianista di origini ungheresi Laszlo Gardony pubblica un nuovo lavoro per la Sunnyside Records dal titolo Signature Time, una sorta di tributo al sound proveniente dall'Africa, seme indispensabile per lo sviluppo dei generi contemporanei, dall'hip hop al jazz e per tutto quello che ci si può mettere nel mezzo.Il pianismo deciso del leader, ...

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Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris: Verona

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2012

Di Butch Morris non ce n'è mai abbastanza. Sono passati la bellezza di 27 anni dall'ormai leggendario Current Trends in Racism in Modern America, che il primo febbraio del 1985, eseguito da un ensemble di dieci elementi (tra i quali Frank Lowe, Tom Cora e John Zorn), inaugurò il filone delle Conduction. 27 anni sono lunghi ...

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Jacques Pellarin Quartet: Sup Dude

Read "Sup Dude" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 21, 2012

The world of Jacques Pellarin's music, especially on his Sup Dude, is brimming with the ecstasy of his ancient Bayan, that superb button accordion that swings and swerves as Pellarin coaxes the most extraordinary, absolutely joyful sounds out of it. His playing is reminiscent of both harmonicist Toots Thielmans and Hammond B3 organist Jimmy Smith at ...

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René Marie: Black Lace Freudian Slip

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2012

Rispetto al mare magnum delle odierne cantanti jazz, più attente al look che ai contenuti, René Marie spicca con lo splendore e l'autenticità di una gemma. In Italia è poco conosciuta anche se ha già inciso otto album, in una carriera iniziata nel 1999 all'età di quarant'anni. Cosa faceva prima? Nient'altro che la casalinga, in un ...

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Kayhan Kalhor & Ali Bahrami Fard: I Will Not Stand Alone

Read "I Will Not Stand Alone" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 21, 2012

Iranian kamanche virtuoso and innovative composer Kayhan Kalhor is known for his international collaborations with cellist Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Persian-Indian ensemble m: Ghazal = 23569, and the Brooklyn Rider string quartet . I Will Not Stand Alone, is a spellbinding meditation on one of the most difficult stages in his ...