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Tobias Delius - Mikaele Pellegrino - Stefano Giust - Clayton Thomas - Chris Heenan: Three Nights in Berlin

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2012

Da quasi vent'anni l'etichetta Setola di maiale sforna CD di sperimentazione senza confini, che documentano spesso le collaborazioni fra improvvisatori italiani e stranieri. Nelle tre notti berlinesi dell'ottobre 2009 dalle quali è stato tratto questo CD, registrato in tre diversi locali, il percussionista di origine svizzera Stefano Giust (uno dei fondatori dell'etichetta) si trovava ad operare ...

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Matt Wilson's Arts And Crafts: An Attitude For Gratitude

Read "An Attitude For Gratitude" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 13, 2012

Drummer Matt Wilson may be the supreme human confluence of technique, swing, spirit, humor and musicality. Over the past 20 years, Wilson has proven to be one of a select few that can balance an inside/outside aesthetic, often within a single piece of music. He has helped shape the music of Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Either/Orchestra, ...

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Kris Davis: Aeriol Piano

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2012

Brandelli di melodia che si ricompongono per un istante al termine di un girovagare tortuoso e apparentemente senza meta tra tasti di ebano e di avorio, martelletti, corde tese, cassa di risonanza e il vuoto circostante. Si tratta di “All the Things You Are" sofisticata, essenziale, minimalista, ma colma di pathos, biglietto da visita di Aeriol ...

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Trio M: The Guest House

Read "The Guest House" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
February 13, 2012

Historically, the most revered jazz piano trios tend to erase the distinction between leader and accompanist; empathetic listening skills and quicksilver responsiveness enable adroit performers to spontaneously shape the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic contours of the music in democratic fashion. The esteemed Trio M, whose personnel boasts pianist Myra Melford, bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Matt ...

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Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2012

Un piano solo rappresenta sempre e comunque una prova per un pianista. Se poi di mezzo ci sono l'ECM e Manfred Eicher, dalla prova si passa alla sfida. Perché non stiamo parlando di un'etichetta qualsiasi, e nemmeno di un produttore qualsiasi. Qui c'è in ballo il confronto con un'estetica perfettamente definita e ingombrante, con un suono, ...

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Kassap - Lavant - Lopez - Médioni - Tchamitchian: Ascension, Tombeau de John Coltrane

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2012

Il connubio fra jazz e poesia non è certo una novità: da Marinetti ed i futuristi al movimento beat ed oltre, gli esempi non mancano. Su questo disco, dedicato a John Coltrane, la musica e la poesia si incrociano di nuovo, dando vita a risultati convincenti. Ascension, Tombeau de John Coltrane traduce in versi l'ossessione del ...

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Je Suis!: Mistluren

Read "Mistluren" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 13, 2012

In 1962 free jazz pioneer Albert Ayler moved to Sweden. Like Jesus Christ's 40 days in the desert, he came home to the United States after being tempted by the devil, and led a revolution in free jazz. His Swedish temptation, perhaps it was a viral contagion, has survived these past 50 years, resurfacing in the ...

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Gregory Porter: Be Good

by Dan Bilawsky
February 12, 2012

Debut albums often serve as fine introductions to the work of fledgling artists with potential for greater things, but that wasn't the case with Gregory Porter's Water (Motéma, 2010). Porter's debut, which was nominated for a Grammy Award, presented a vocal soul-jazz juggernaut that seemingly materialized out of thin air as a fully matured musical entity. ...

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Andy Aitchison Quartet: You Ain't Never

Read "You Ain't Never" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 12, 2012

The piano and the violin are, perhaps, the only two musical instruments so complete and so possessed of body and soul that they can elicit and provoke the purest feelings of sadness and joy, and every other feeling in-between. But of the two, only one does so with the manipulation of merely four strings. The violin ...

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Talking Cows: Almost Human

Read "Almost Human" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 12, 2012

Talking Cows may be the world's only bovine-themed jazz group. Titles of previous CDs include Bovinity (Morvin Records, 2006) and Dairy tales (Morvin Records, 2009). Almost Human indicates a move further in the primate direction. But where a true bovine creature may have an aspect of the ruminative in its nature, the Talking Cows does not. ...