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Peter Appleyard And The Jazz Giants: The Lost 1974 Sessions

Read "The Lost 1974 Sessions" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 20, 2012

A gem of a discovery, vibraphonist Peter Appleyard's The Lost 1974 Sessions is an important record, both artistically and a historically. Appleyard assembled most of clarinetist Benny Goodman's group in RCA's Toronto studios for a one of a kind opportunity when band in town for a concert. He called the ad hoc band the Jazz Giants, ...

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Juhani Aaltonen / Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 20, 2012

The splendid music on Conversations is as close to the celebration of Impressionism in modern music as possible. It is true that saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist Heikki Sarmanto create epic narratives here, and also true that both act as characters in those narratives. Of greater significance, however, is the extraordinary emotion of these musical stories, ...

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Sandro Satta - Roberto Bellatalla - Fabrizio Spera: Re-union

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2012

Sandro Satta, Roberto Bellatalla, Fabrizio Spera: tre esperti improvvisatori italiani che incrociano i loro cammini dopo decenni di esperienze variegate e divergenti. Il sassofonista e il contrabbassista affondano i loro esordi negli anni Settanta, ma hanno poi percorso strade differenti: il primo è rimasto prevalentemente a Roma dove insegna alla Scuola Popolare di Musica del Testaccio, ...

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Jo-Yu Chen Trio: Incomplete Soul

Read "Incomplete Soul" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2012

Giunta al secondo disco, la pianista taiwanese conferma e perfeziona quanto aveva espresso nel precedente Obsession. Stessi partner e stesso produttore (Sam Yahel) per un lavoro nuovamente ricercato, in cui il talento strumentale si lega a quello compositivo. In Incomplete Soul troviamo sette temi a suo nome, tre momenti liberamente improvvisati, due motivi pop taiwanesi ("Chess" ...

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Paolo Fresu & Omar Sosa feat. Jaques Morelenbaum: Alma

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2012

L'incontro tra Paolo Fresu e Omar Sosa dà vita a un album dai colori contrastanti, capace di rapire l'ascoltatore grazie a una continua oscillazione tra bellezza formale e forza espressiva, tra esposizioni dirette e complicità sottintesa. Insieme a loro in Alma c'è anche Jaques Morelenbaum al violoncello, che interviene in diversi momenti restituendo ampiezza interpretativa a ...

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Jessica Lurie Ensemble: Megaphone Heart

Read "Megaphone Heart" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2012

La newyorkese Jessica Lurie non si accontenta di suonare un solo strumento, ma vuole di più: sassofoni, flauti, clarinetti e anche la fisarmonica. In più: non disdegna di cantare. Non è finita: nel suo bagaglio spazioso ha in serbo escursioni nei generi disparati. Che si tratti di far dialogare allegramente e con fantasia: folk, jazz, rock ...

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John Moulder Quintet: The Eleventh Hour: Live at the Green Mill

Read "The Eleventh Hour: Live at the Green Mill" reviewed by Dave Sumner

by Dave Sumner
March 19, 2012

Whereas many of Chicago's jazz and blues guitar icons seem to channel the dark alleys and the bar sign neon of the city through their instruments, John Moulder's sound is more akin to a synthesis of the lakefront--a beauty and serenity that is just as likely to show a face of fury and cold precision. For ...

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Michel Godard - Roberto Martinelli - Francesco D'Auria: Le Sonnet Oublié

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2012

Un arpeggio di basso elettrico delicato come una piuma, una soave voce di un sax contralto, un basso tuba che un basso tuba non sembra grazie a dolcezza di timbro e duttilità di fraseggio, percussioni che si librano nell'aria leggere come farfalle, una melodia dal sapore rinascimentale, struggente e carica di lirismo come una poesia preziosa ...

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Daunik Lazro / Jean Francois Pauvros / Roger Turner: Curare

by John Sharpe
March 19, 2012

Silence could be the fourth member of the group responsible for the cooperatively derived Curare, joining the French pairing of reed supremo Daunik Lazro and guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros with English drummer Roger Turner. As the four cuts are sourced from two live dates some 20 months apart, this cross-Channel aggregation is clearly not a one-off. Lazro ...

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Andrew Cyrille / Haitian Fascination: Route de Freres

Read "Route de Freres" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 19, 2012

To experience ecstasy without the memory of it would certainly be a travesty. Fortunately, it may now be possible to have both--to have the near-perfect memory of being in the throes of ecstasy--and it is all because of the music on Route de Frères by Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination. More specifically, it is because of ...