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Remi Alvarez: Live at Vision Festival

Read "Live at Vision Festival" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
February 25, 2012

The Vision Festival is the premier showcase for art, dance and experimental music. Some of the finest exponents of avant-garde and free jazz perform on its stage. The atmosphere is electrifying and vibrant as it captures the expanse of the imaginations of the musicians. The unseen chord becomes a pertinent presence and the harbinger of a ...

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Démodé: Le Parole al Vento

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 24, 2012

Démodé è un'orchestra che produce gioa della musica, gioia dei suoni, senza paura di avventurarsi nell'improvvisazione, ma con una formula sempre chiara, nitida e onesta. Démodé è un'orchestra senza pace di ispirazioni, la musica folk europea, in un certo senso anche la canzone moderna italiana. Le Parole al Vento è il loro primo album. Questi musicisti ...

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Noah Kaplan: Descendants

Read "Descendants" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 24, 2012

Who knew that tenor saxophonist Noah Kaplan would turn out to be an old soul? Probably no one, especially those who have heard his extraordinary propensity for wailing in a sea of microtones and xenharmonics. But the truth is that Kaplan has made his lineage clear. He goes further back, from reeds-master Joe Maneri to the ...

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Bob Gluck: Returning

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 24, 2012

Returning ci offre una musica singolare, oscillante fra leggiadria e austerità, dall'evidente carattere melodico e strutturata in modo mai banale. Ora risulta evidente l'impianto della scrittura (tutti i brani sono di Bob Gluck, escluso l'ultimo che è a firma collettiva), ora emerge l'apertura dell'improvvisazione e di un istantaneo interplay. L'evoluzione dei brani è imprevedibile, mai scandita ...

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Talking Drums: Some Day Catch Some Day Down

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 24, 2012

La Innova Records ristampa Some Day Catch Some Day Down, uscito nel 1987 e qui riproposto con l'aggiunta di nove bonus track - che a loro volta vennero pubblicate su cassetta due anni prima con il titolo di Talking Drums - in formato mp3. I Talking Drums, dunque. Siamo in pieno territorio africano: ritmi pulsanti, colori ...

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Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets

Read "Dark Lady of the Sonnets" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 24, 2012

Every few years master composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith surprises with a new outfit that fits wonderfully in his rich and complex musical universe. The Mbira trio is no exception: a timeless, multidimensional trio, inspired by revered ancestors but with its course set for a possible future. In this trio, Smith contextualizes the spiritual veins ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio: Elastic Aspects

Read "Elastic Aspects" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
February 24, 2012

From the sublime introspection of Bill Evans' legendary trio to the unfettered expressionism of Cecil Taylor's various units, the acoustic piano trio has proven to be one of the jazz tradition's most versatile and enduring configurations. Underscored by percussion, the pairing of two chord-based instruments facilitates a wide range of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic freedom, enabling ...

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Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 24, 2012

America del ghetto, Africa e Caraibi s'incontrano in questo nuovo lavoro (incisione, però, del 2005) dell'oggi settantaduenne batterista già gloriosamente a fianco di Cecil Taylor. Negritudine sugli scudi, quindi, anche perché l'altro elemento schiettamente jazzistico del quintetto è quell'Hamiet Bluiett la cui prima visibilità rimanda all'estrema stagione mingusiana. Più Mingus, se proprio vogliamo (ricordiamo almeno l'"Haitian ...

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Joelle Leandre / Phillip Greenlief: That Overt Desire Of Object

Read "That Overt Desire Of Object" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen

by Mark Redlefsen
February 24, 2012

Contrabassist Joëlle Léandre and West Coast woodwind player Phillip Greenlief work out 11 different compositions between their two respective instruments and voices on That Overt Desire of Object. The flexibility and space that each provides the other seems to be reflected in the line note comments about the negative effects of greed. The title is a ...

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Oren Ambarchi: Audience of One

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 23, 2012

Chitarrista e esploratore sonoro con un meritato seguito di appassionati, l'australiano Oren Ambarchi aggiunge un nuovo, importante, tassello alla propria discografia con Audience of One, lavoro concepito come una suite in quattro parti e costruito con una equilibrata architettura narrativa che va a toccare differenti elementi lessicali cari all'artista. L'iniziale, ipnotica, “Salt" è come appesa al ...