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Katie Guthorn: Why Not Smile?
by Edward Blanco
San Francisco-based actress, educator and singer Katie Guthorn is primarily known for her work in pop, R&B, Motown and even country music, having performed with groups such as the Soul Delights and the Randy Craig Trip. Though jazz has been part of her repertoire in the past, it has never truly been her main dish or ...
Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio
by Mark F. Turner
Robert Glasper's love for the music of his upbringing is deep. The sounds of hip hop, R&B, and urban soul music are intrinsically linked to a brilliant young jazz pianist who has gigged with jazz icons, headlined his own bands, and released a number of noteworthy recordings, including 2007's In My Element (Bluenote) and 2009's Double ...
The Doors: LA Woman: 40th Anniversary Edition
by Doug Collette
The two-disc reissue of The Doors' L.A. Woman (Elektra, 1971), released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original album, documents how this band achieved what The Beatles could not with Let It Be (Apple, 1970). Jim Morrison and company effectively and authentically went back to their musical roots and, in so doing, restored their camaraderie ...
The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is The Beautiful?
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Poetry has always been the libretto of jazz music. Even before epic works of the late Gil Scott Heron like “H2O Gate Blues" or “Winter in America" (which inspired the nations of rap and hip-hop), there was Langston Hughes with bassist Charles Mingus on Weary Blues (Verve, 1958), the great Amiri Baraka, and A.B. Spellman. Then ...
The Michael Landau Group: Organic Instrumentals
by John Kelman
What do Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Neil Diamond have in common? Well, aside from being amongst the more important singer/songwriters of the past forty years, they've all recruited Michael Landau at one time or another. Between hundreds of recordings and plenty of high profile tours, it's more than a little surprising that the guitarist hasn't ...
Rosset - Meyer - Geiger: Lucy's Dance EP
by AAJ Italy Staff
Poco più di venti minuti di pura goduria e creatività caratterizzano questo superbo mini CD del trio svizzero Rosset-Meyer-Geiger. Ancora in primo piano ed in linea con il disco d'esordio la magnificazione del groove, qui declinato attraverso plurime modalità d'espressione. Si parte dalla traccia iniziale ricca di swing, blues e gustosi riferimenti alla cifra strumentale dei ...
Gabriel Vicens: Point in Time
by Andrew J. Sammut
Gabriel Vicens brings together simpatico colleagues from the scene in his native Puerto Rico and beyond to explore twelve of his works on the guitarist and composer's debut, Point in Time. Vicens' compositions explore quirky, catchy heads ("Point in Time," “Beautiful Place"), plenty of vamps ("La Diferencia," “Frame of Mind" and “El Camino") and medium tempo ...
Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Shoot!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Le scarnissime note di copertina dicono poco o nulla di questo power trio norvegese capitanato nientemeno che da una chitarrista hard rock, come si sarebbe detto una volta, che risponde al nome di Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen. È lei la bionda che vedete in copertina e che spara riff al fulmicotone e sventaglia assoli granitici in puro ...
Falkner Evans: The Point of the Moon
by AAJ Italy Staff
Passato al jazz dopo esperienze nel rock, il pianista Falkner Evans è da anni leader di apprezzati trio attivi nell'area di New York. Oggi vara un sestetto dalle chiare connotazioni neo-bop, dopo due incisioni con Cecil McBee e Matt Wilson e un lavoro più recente (ARC, 2007) con la ritmica di questa stessa formazione. I nomi ...
Aleks Girshevich Trio: Tomorrow
by Florence Wetzel
The word “prodigy" comes from the Latin prodigium, which means “sign" or “portent." Jazz boasts its fair share of these exceptional individuals, including drummer Tony Williams, pianist Keith Jarrett, saxophonist Grace Kelly and Trombone Shorty. Folks on the Colorado music scene have been talking for years about the tremendously talented drummer Aleks Girshevich, who was born ...
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