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Aaron Goldberg / Ali Jackson Jr. / Omer Avital: Yes!

Read "Yes!" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 1, 2012

The strains of wistful longing are almost palpable right through the length and breadth of Yes!, a remarkable album by a remarkable trio. Pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Omer Avital and drummer Ali Jackson Jr. play with such empathy that they appear of one mind, body and soul. This is the stuff that significant music has been ...

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Exultet: Kern

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2012

C'è della sana originalità in Kern, l'album firmato dal trio Exultet, realtà composta da un trio formalmente inedito - fisarmonica, chitarra, percussioni - e capace di percorrere vie espressive fuori dalle consuetudini. Potremmo semplicemente definirla sperimentazione, se non fosse per quel senso di compiutezza che - a conti fatti - tiene insieme i dieci brani in ...

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Oscar Peterson: Unmistakable

Read "Unmistakable" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2012

The first thing Unmistakable on this recording is the pianist: it can only be the incomparable Oscar Peterson, who, if not the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived, is certainly among the top four or five. This scrapbook, however, is not, strictly speaking, a performance by Peterson but a “re-performance," taken from DVDs of three concerts--one ...

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Ivo Perelman / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver: Family Ties

Read "Family Ties" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 1, 2012

Family Ties is São Paulo-born saxophonist Ivo Perelman's sixteenth release for Leo Records and the sixth named after one of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's intense psychological works of fiction. Each of the record's six pieces is similarly titled after a short story from the aforementioned collection, yet the album's designation offers a broader, more salient interpretation ...

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Curtis Fuller: The Story of Cathy & Me

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2012

Registrato in seguito alla scomparsa della moglie Catherine Rose Driscoll, avvenuta il 13 gennaio 2010, questo album non può che rappresentare, conseguentemente, un punto d'arrivo denso di significato nella parabola artistica di Curtis Fuller, trombonista nato a Detroit nel 1934 e noto tra l'altro per aver partecipato, nel 1957, all'incisione del coltraniano Blue Train e per ...

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Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side

Read "Upper West Side" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 1, 2012

Wherever tenor saxophonist Harry Allen shows up, there is sure to be a major outbreak of Old School. Along with Scott Hamilton, Allen is a keeper of the flame encompassing saxophone practice from Frankie Trumbauer to Lester Young. Pianist Ehud Asherie is cut from the same bolt as Ralph Sutton and Dick Hyman. His previous Posi-Tone ...

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The Dorf: Le Record

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 29, 2012

Come sottolineavamo su questo sito nella recensione del primo CD, omonimo di questo progetto, “ ... sono giovani, sono pieni di grinta e di passione ma sono anche competenti e scaltri. Cosa volere di più?" Analisi molto corretta che calza a pennello anche per la seconda incisione di questo atipico open-combo in casa Leo. Dorf, vocabolo ...

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Katie Glassman: Snapshot

Read "Snapshot" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
February 29, 2012

The marriage of jazz and country music has a long and colorful history. In writer Geoffrey Himes' excellent article, “Jazz and Country Fusion: The Searchers" (JazzTimes, December 2008), he explores how this history contains everyone from saxophonist Sonny Rollins, bassist Charlie Haden and guitarist Bill Frisell, to banjoist Béla Fleck and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Defining “country ...

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Nuevo Tango Ensamble: D'Impulso

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 29, 2012

La collaborazione tra il gruppo italiano Nuevo Tango Ensemble e l'etichetta tedesca Jazzhaus Records continua nel migliore dei modi, dopo il convincente Tango Mediterraneo (che aveva seguito A Night in Vienna pubblicato dalla Phylology). Il loro percorso mischia tango nuevo e jazz, la musica di Buenos Aires, così come l'ha interpretata Piazzolla, ed il jazz americano, ...

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JC Stylles: Exhilaration and Other States

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 29, 2012

Jason Campbell Stylles riversa in Exhilaration and Other States tutta la sua esuberanza stilistica, in nove brani che evidenziano tecnica superba e grande comunicativa. Al suo fianco agisce - senza mai invadere troppo la scena - Pat Bianchi all'organo Hammond, mentre l'impalcatura ritmica è affidata al batterista Lawrence Leathers, che completa un trio dalla grande flessibilità ...