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Massimo Vescovi Quintet: Whistle This

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2012

In Whistle This troviamo il chitarrista Massimo Vescovi alle prese con un repertorio di brani da lui composti per l'occasione e alla guida di un quintetto ben assortito e pronto a disegnare scenari morbidi e atmosfere rassicuranti. Sono queste le caratteristiche principali di un disco che ruota attorno alla chitarra del leader e al clarinetto di ...

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Brian Patneaude: All Around Us

Read "All Around Us" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 28, 2012

With All Around Us saxophonist Brian Patneaude delivers a bravura performance as both artist and composer. This superior effort shouts breakthrough for this talented, but not widely known, New York Capital District saxophonist and his crew. The session offers eight brilliantly performed straight-ahead jazz compositions, of which six emanate from Patneaude's pen. Patneaude ...

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Holshouser, Bennink & Moore: Live in NYC

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

Due tra i più rappresentativi esponenti della scena jazz e avant europea come Michael Moore e Han Bennink e un giovane fisarmonicista americano - Will Holshouser - che ha studiato con Anthony Braxton, ha approfondito la conoscenza della musica creola e cajun, ha esplorato diverse aree della scena musicale nordamericana, vanta collaborazioni eterogenee (Regina Carter ed ...

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Joel Forrester - Phillip Johnston: Live at the Hillside Club

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

Joel Forrester e Phillip Johnston registrano per la prima volta un disco in duo dopo quasi quarant'anni di collaborazione e innumerevoli concerti in duo. Insieme, hanno dato vita ad organici diversi, tra i quali il Microscopic Septet è il più longevo. Live at the Hillside Club è stato registrato proprio durante il tour promozionale dell'ultimo disco ...

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Jenny Scheinman: Mischief & Mayhem

Read "Mischief & Mayhem" reviewed by Jack Huntley

by Jack Huntley
February 27, 2012

Violinist Jenny Scheinman's Mischief & Mayhem fires on all cylinders. Everything works--from arrangements to overall track cohesion, from the music's fertile energy to the musician's creative interplay, and from the quality of sound engineering to the ingeniously accomplished album art--making this a near-flawless package of musical craftsmanship. Mischief & Mayhem indeed, as the album is nothing ...

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Luís Lopes: Lisbon Berlin Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

È un territorio arido e pieno d'insidie quello coltivato da Luís Lopes, vertice alto del Lisbon Berlin trio, realtà completata dal contrabbassita Robert Landfermann e dal batterista Christian Lillinger. Perché i suoni prodotti nel loro album Lisbon Berlin Trio sono spesso dissonanti, taglienti, difficilmente masticabili da chi non ha denti di ascolto ben affilati. Niente melodie ...

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Starlicker: Double Demon

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

Come un novello Re Mida, con la cornetta al posto dello scettro, Rob Mazurek da qualche anno trasforma in oro tutto quel che tocca. È successo all'Exploding Star Orchestra, in ogni sua forma e incarnazione, al quintetto Sound Is, al Chicago e al São Paulo Underground, miscelati o presi singolarmente; non poteva non succedere al trio ...

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Ivo Perelman / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver: Family Ties

Read "Family Ties" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 27, 2012

Her boyfriend might have left Janis Joplin with nothing, as she asserts in her classic version of Kris Kristofferson's “Me and Bobby McGee," but Ivo Perelman refutes Joplin's claim that “freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" on Family Ties.The Brazilian saxophonist has returned to recording with a deluge of releases, this ...

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David Weiss and Point of Departure: Snuck Out

Read "Snuck Out" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 27, 2012

Point of Departure: from where a takeoff ensues. The name of this ensemble is most appropriate when it comes to the performances by this extraordinary group of musicians. Snuck Out presents the companion set of a memorable date recorded on March 25, 2008 that produced Snuck In (Sunnyside, 2010). The same intense energy pervades both recording ...

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Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

È impressionante il background del bassista canadese Michael Bates. Musicista hardcore e punk, raffinato contrabbassista jazz, allievo di Yoshio Nagashima (Tokyo Symphony), Tony Falanga e Mark Helias, studioso di Shostakovich, ora attivo a Brooklyn nella pattuglia di compositori-improvvisatori più creativi sulla scena newyorkese. Questo Acrobat prende le mosse proprio da Shostakovich, non già come omaggio stilistico, ...