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Kate Reid: The Love I’m In
by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. Kate Reid is a faculty member of the Fine Arts department of Cypress College in Southern California. However, Reid is no stuffed shirt, ivory tower type. No, she is a living, breathing, practicing jazz singer, one who holds on to tradition loosely, having fun with the music she performs. She belongs to that treasured group ...
Floratone (Frisell / Chamberlain / Townsend / Martine): Floratone II
by John Kelman
Plenty of artists treat their music as egalitarian, but some projects are more collaborative than others. Guitarist Bill Frisell has long considered his work to be about the greater whole, going so far as to credit the arrangements on Sign of Life (Savoy, 2011), as “(on the spot and subject to change) by Bill Frisell, Eyvind ...
The Second Approach Trio: Pandora's Pitcher
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Leo ci offre questa ennesima prova della bravura degli improvvisatori russi. Composto da musicisti non più giovanissimi ma ancora poco conosciuti, il Second Approach Trio si è formato alla fine degli anni Novanta ed ha alle sue spalle già sette CD [leggi la recensione dell'ultimo CD Event Space], alcuni dei quali arricchiti da ospiti. Per ...
Borislove & Noizepunk: Cello Lounge
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There are so few composers of contemporary music who have expanded its idiom and its language that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Among those few, the shape-shifting guitarist/electronics manipulator Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight ...
Kairos 4tet: Statement of Intent
by AAJ Italy Staff
Com'è ormai ben risaputo, la Gran Bretagna è sempre stata - jazzisticamente parlando - una sorta di enclave. Per dirla con termini più moderni, anche una sorta di buco nero che tutto assorbe e in sostanza nulla trasmette se non in rarissime occasioni. Proprio pochi giorni fa mi sono trovato a parlare della cosa con un ...
Vitor Pereira Quintet: Doors
by Bruce Lindsay
Music produced by London's F-IRE Collective is almost guaranteed to be intriguing and innovative. Doors, the debut from Portuguese guitarist Vitor Pereira's Quintet, is a worthy addition to the Collective's output. The quintet contains some of the UK's finest young players, including alto saxophonist Chris Williams, from Led Bib, and drummer Eddie Hick, from Gilad Atzmon's ...
Neil Yates: Five Countries
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un trombettista inglese, Neil Yates, un chitarrista rumeno, Zsolt Bende, un percussionista irlandese, Cormac Byrne, e Five Countries, i cinque paesi come quelli di provenienza e di attuale domicilio dei musicisti coinvolti. Inutile sottolineare come i paesaggi musicali descritti o, meglio, evocati nel CD siano un crogiolo di influenze ma in questa incisione sembrano trovare una ...
Yair Yona: World Behind Curtains
by Eyal Hareuveni
Like his debut, Remember (Anova, 2010), this sophomore release from Yair Yona still features the Israeli as a guitarist paying his debts to the American Primitive and British finger-picking traditions. But the ambitious World Behind Curtains focuses, first and foremost, on Yona the composer. His compositions for an acoustic chamber ensemble move the finger-picking schools into ...
Phil Woods - Bill Mays: Phil & Bill, Woods & Mays
by AAJ Italy Staff
Californiano, sessantotto anni appena compiuti, una discografia abbastanza smisurata (a suo nome come a fianco di svariati grandi del jazz, oltre a Frank Zappa, e soprattutto a tante voci, da Al Jarreau a Peggy Lee, da Anita O'Day a Frank Sinatra, a Sarah Vaughan), Bill Mays era forse il partner ideale per questo nuovo capitolo della ...
Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band: Eleven
by C. Michael Bailey
Like many other corners in that amorphous room called jazz, big band jazz has grown more abstract and experimental since its heyday in the 1930s. This process is necessary for the creative evolution of the art, but often produces music that is as unlistenable as it is creative--or brilliant. Abstract growth may be considered horizontal evolution, ...
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