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Hans Glawischnig: Jahira

Read "Jahira" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 29, 2012

The tonal riches of Hans Glawischnig's Jahira are so prodigious that the album feels like a devastatingly beautiful canvas that remains constantly wet and therefore changing and shape-shifting. Glawischnig has always given notice of his propensity for colors as he held together the bottom--and sometimes the top--register of the harmonics of many breathtaking musical charts. Now ...

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Jan Lundgren / Bengt Hallberg: Back 2 Back

Read "Back 2 Back" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 29, 2012

An historic meeting of two giants of modern jazz in Sweden. Bengt Hallberg, born 1932, helped to found the idiom via his work with alto saxophonist Arne Domnérus in the 1950s and attracted international attention by recording with such US legends as Clifford Brown and Stan Getz. Leonard Feather praised his “unique light-fingered style."

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Christoph Irniger / Pilgrim: Mt. Tongariro

Read "Mt. Tongariro" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 29, 2012

Whether by default or intent, Europe's Pilgrim communicates an artistic portraiture of progressive jazz. Framed on the sensibilities of travel and alluding to New Zealand's Mt. Tongariro as a core premise for the underlying themes, this quartet led by saxophonist Christoph Irniger pursues a signature sound and methodology. With ethereal overtones, budding passages, and succinct treks ...

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Pear: Extemp'ore

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 29, 2012

Curioso e bizzarro. Sono i primi aggettivi che vengono in mente con lo scorrere delle tracce di questo Extemp'ore, l'album di debutto del duo formato dal tastierista Rick Pierone, molto attivo nell'ambito della sonorizzazione di film e spettacoli teatrali, e del percussionista Rick Milne. I due registrano varie sessions a ruota libera, solo qualche indicazione, qualche ...

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Mike Nock Trio Plus: Hear and Know

Read "Hear and Know" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 28, 2012

It's an admirable objective to push the musical envelope, but it's unrealistic to expect artists of longevity to make each and every record a major milestone. What goes a longer way for those with careers measured in decades is consistency. New Zealand-born/Australia-based pianist Mike Nock has a handful of particularly memorable recordings including In Out and ...

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The Impossible Gentlemen: The Impossible Gentlemen

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2012

Allora: ci sono dischi dei quali si potrebbe o dovrebbe (?) scrivere pagine e altri no. Questo è uno di quelli sul quale si dovrebbe scrivere molto. Perché è un disco di una sorta di super-gruppo del jazz moderno, composto democraticamente da due americani e due britannici di “alte sfere". Perché un disco così esce ormai ...

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Eddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway: Live At The Library Of Congress

Read "Live At The Library Of Congress" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 28, 2012

Perhaps no wind instrument can be as expressive as the human voice besides the trombone and clarinet. The litmus test, so to speak, might be to cast either instrument in a silent movie and then to watch the film as the instruments imitate the lives whose stories they tell. Of course the instruments must be played ...

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Teho Teardo: Music, film. Music.

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2012

Le scarne note di copertina, a dispetto del packaging quasi lussuoso con splendide immagine tratte dai film, portano la firma di Ennio Morricone (ci piace pensare che, ad esempio, “Finale con Tiepolo," per i suoi colori e per il suo andamento, suoni come un omaggio al grande Maestro). Una garanzia di qualità diremmo noi, e l'ascolto ...

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Giovanni Francesca / Aldo Galasso / Dario Miranda: Telegraph

Read "Telegraph" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 28, 2012

This Italian trio imparts a cunning and personalized manifesto within the fuzzy area that borders free jazz, jazz-rock and avant-garde musings. The artists' realm of applications and concepts elicit an aura that hovers atop many theme-building episodes, prudently morphing various perspectives into loosely organized structural facets. These components serve as a baseline for both the intricately ...

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Alessandro Olivieri Trio: Silenzi Pieni

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2012

Un contrabbassista bolognese ed un progetto in cui ha investito tanta energia e la convinzione che potesse riuscire bene. Stiamo parlando di Alessandro Olivieri e della raccolta di standard Silenzi Pieni, un piacevole omaggio alle strade maestre del jazz, fatto senza pensare in modo complicato. L'energia, l'interplay e la freschezza di una session che suona molto ...