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Henry Cole and the Afro Beat Collective: Roots Before Branches

Read "Roots Before Branches" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 6, 2012

As a rising jazz drummer in today's environment, Henry Cole's percussive sound has emerged in works with seminal artists such as Miguel Zenón, David Sánchez, and the Le Boeuf Brothers. Like his peers, Cole is challenging old ideas and channeling new concepts into the mix. The debut of Roots Before Branches , with his Afro-Beat Collective, ...

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Karrin Allyson: 'Round Midnight

Read "'Round Midnight" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 6, 2012

La notte cantata da Karrin Allyson è piena di passioni, di luci soffuse, di amori che vanno e vengono passando per canzoni come “Smile" e “Goodbye". Un grande album, il tredicesimo per la Concord, in cui la Allyson ritorna anche dietro la tastiera del pianoforte e del Fender Rhodes, con autorità. La sua voce malinconica si ...

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New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard

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by AAJ Italy Staff
March 6, 2012

Unstandard è il secondo album del New York Standards Quartet, fondato dal sassofonista Tim Armacost nell'autunno del 2006. La formazione annovera quattro solidi ed affermati musicisti come David Berkman al piano, Yosuke Inoue al contrabbasso e Gene Jackson alla batteria. Ancora standards? Sì, e non ci stuferemo mai di ascoltarli. D'altronde è questo uno dei lati ...

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Stephane Belmondo: The Same As It Never Was Before

Read "The Same As It Never Was Before" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 6, 2012

It is all a matter of the right tone for French trumpeter Stephane Belmondo. On Same As It Never Was Before, it is a matter of getting his lips in the right position--singular embouchure--then grabbing the air from his lungs and blowing it out in hot wild gusts through the horn. But it is also more ...

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Luis Disla: The Prophecy

Read "The Prophecy" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
March 6, 2012

One quick way to verify a musician's credentials is to check out who plays on his debut record. Respected reed man Luis Disla obviously called in a few markers for The Prophecy , assembling an all-star lineup and achieving a glossy production in the process. No stranger to the studio with numerous sessions ...

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Mike Longo Trio +2: To My Surprise

Read "To My Surprise" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 6, 2012

When is a trio not a trio? Well, when it's the Mike Longo Trio +2, which actually makes it a quintet. Such is the case on six of the dozen tracks on Longo's new CD, To My Surprise, which showcases not only the versatile pianist's core group (bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Lewis Nash), but also ...

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Daniel Studer: Reibungen

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 6, 2012

Virtuoso del contrabbasso, didatta e libero improvvisatore, il cinquantenne artista svizzero ha vissuto a Roma per quindici anni e ha collaborato con numerosi musicisti italiani, tra i quali Giancarlo Schiaffini che scrive le note di copertina di questo particolare lavoro in solitudine (la traduzione del titolo è “Attriti"). Studer, che si muove in numerosi ambiti della ...

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Sebastiano Meloni - Simona Bandini - Massimo Tore - Roberto Pellegrini: Cut-up

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 6, 2012

Questo CD della TiConZero, registrato ad Oristano nel gennaio 2011, ci propone un collettivo di improvvisazione formatosi a Cagliari. Tutti i quattro musicisti sono polistrumentisti, il che permette un'ampia gamma di situazioni timbriche e dinamiche, ma le peculiarità dei vari brani sono spesso determinate da specifiche coppie di strumenti diversi. Il misterioso incipit di “Western Lands" ...

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Kathy Kosins: To the Ladies of Cool

Read "To the Ladies of Cool" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
March 6, 2012

Singers June Christy, Chris Connor, Anita O'Day and Julie London were prominent in the 1940s and '50s. Christy, O'Day and Connor all spent time with Stan Kenton's band, while the sultry London became a pinup as well as a big record seller. Popular with both jazz and pop fans, these singers could regularly be heard on ...

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Miguel Zenon: Alma adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 5, 2012

Alma adentro è l'album della definitiva consacrazione dell'altosassofonista portoricano Miguel Zenon, nella duplice veste di arrangiatore e bandeader. Una inedita combinazione timbrica tra colori classici e jazzistici porta a livelli di assoluta eccellenza una musica di grande fascino. È un progetto che supera le rigide barriere delle convenzioni contemporanee per proporre qualcosa di diverso rispetto all'anima ...