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Christian McBride: The Good Feeling

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by AAJ Italy Staff
March 13, 2012

The Good Feeling à l'album di debutto della Big Band guidata da Christian McBride, che con questo lavoro -pensato e messo insieme durante un lungo periodo di tempo -mette in evidenza un nuovo lato della propria personalità musicale. Il contrabbassista ha scelto un repertorio fatto di suoi brani, rivisti e formalmente adattati per l'occasione, e una ...

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Enzo Carpentieri Circular E-motion: Everywhere Is Here

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2012

Batterista tra i più versatili del jazz italiano contemporaneo, Enzo Carpentieri è attivo professionalmente dalla metà degli anni ottanta. S'è fatto le ossa accanto a Urbani, Odorici, Atti e accompagnando svariati protagonisti mainstream ma ha dimostrato ottime doti anche in contesti più avanzati come il Lunar Quartet di John Tchicai, col pianista Greg Burk e il ...

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Indigo Trio - Michel Edelin: The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest

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by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2012

Come spesso accade nel jazz, ad un incontro live fa seguito una sessione di registrazione in studio. In questo caso, i protagonisti dell'incontro sono l'Indigo Trio (Nicole Mitchell, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake) ed il flautista Michel Edelin. Il luogo, Strasburgo. L'album, questo “The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest," che già nel titolo lascia intravedere quel ...

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Andy Sheppard / Michel Benita / Sebastian Rochford: Trio Libero

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by John Kelman
March 12, 2012

Sometimes unexpected connections yield the most wonderful results. Saxophonist Andy Sheppard, bassist Michel Benita and drummer Sebastian Rochford all have more than enough cred to suggest capability in any context, but none of their individual pursuits could presage a collaboration like Trio Libero, quite possibly the finest saxophone trio recordings of the new millennium, and one ...

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Emma Smith: The Huntress

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by Bruce Lindsay
March 12, 2012

"Experienced" is seldom an appropriate adjective to apply to a 21 year-old performer, but it's perfectly apposite when applied to singer and composer Emma Smith. She began singing with a big band at the age of 14 and was, barely a year later, a mainstay of Britain's National Youth Jazz Orchestra. With the support of musicians ...

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Dave Douglas – So Percussion: Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 3: Bad Mango

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by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2012

Nel suo peregrinare (in positivo, si capisce) tra formule e assortimenti vari, Dave Douglas incontra in questo album - il terzo della seria Greenleaf Portable Music, dopo Rare Metals e Orange Afternoons con due quintetti diversi - un quartetto di tutti percussionisti (spesso più aromatici che squisitamente ritmici, in verità, e comunque muniti anche di tastiere ...

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Franco D'Andrea: Traditions And Clusters

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by Mark Corroto
March 12, 2012

It is a satisfying musical experience when a performance can deliver traditional jazz without the music being reduced to orthodoxy. Such is the resonance of Franco D'Andrea's sound.The seventy-something Italian pianist follows Soprais (El Gallo Rojo, 2011), with his long-established quartet, by adding the early jazz instruments of clarinet and trombone, played respectively by ...

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Dave Douglas: Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1: Rare Metals

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by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2012

Il titolo Rare Metals è quanto mai appropriato per questo CD, perché di rado capita di imbattersi in gemme rilucenti come questa. In primo piano un inusuale tappeto timbrico ed una front-line dominata dai timbri scuri e cupi di trombone e tuba, per contraltare la squillante tromba del leader. Douglas si rivela ancora una volta il ...

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Sarah Elgeti Quintet: Into The Open

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by Edward Blanco
March 12, 2012

From the Danish Radio (DR) Big band--directed by such greats as Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim McNeely--to the jazz environment of Copenhagen's Café Montmarte, Denmark has been at the forefront in nurturing and producing some of the finest jazz musicians in Europe and, indeed, the world. Saxophonist/flautist Sarah Elgeti is the latest Danish wonder to ...

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Vijay Iyer Trio: Accelerando

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by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2012

Stessa etichetta, stessa formazione, stessa miscela di composizioni originali, di standard jazz e di pop covers, stessa grande musica. Ci riferiamo al Vijay Iyer Trio che bissa lo splendido Historicity con l'altrettanto splendido Accelerando. Partiamo da “Human Nature," per chi scrive la vetta dell'album. Difficile per tutti confrontarsi con le versioni in studio e soprattutto live ...