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Janice Finlay: Anywhere But Here

Read "Anywhere But Here" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
February 4, 2012

Saxophonist Janice Finlay has been voted “top sax" by the jazz fans of Winnipeg, Canada for three consecutive years. An educator by profession at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts, Finlay is a first-call musician who leads several groups and is a long-time member of the Ron Paley Big Band. A stalwart of the Winnipeg ...

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Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet: Live In Basel

Read "Live In Basel" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 3, 2012

Like most modern jazz players, alto saxophonist Pete Robbins works in multiple bands, playing varying styles and disciplines of this thing called jazz. Sounds reasonable, yes? But, thirty years ago this wasn't possible. Musicians, listeners, and jazz critics (let's not leave them out) had to take sides, choose categories and labels to classify and compartmentalize their ...

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The Wee Trio: Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective

Read "Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2012

Rock e jazz, storia lunga e complicata. Tanti flirt, brusche rotture e un solo terreno di pace: il tributo, l'omaggio, la rivisitazione. Fra gli innumerevoli musicisti che si sono cimentati in esperimenti di questo tipo - ascoltati soprattutto negli ultimi due decenni - dobbiamo aggiungere il Wee Trio con questo Ashes to Ashes, un progetto le ...

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Giovanna Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait

Read "If Grief Could Wait" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 3, 2012

There was a time when hard lines existed between genres, but they seem long gone when tenor John Potter and electronic composer Ambrose Field can create a very 21st century take on 15th century musical frameworks with Being Dufay (2009), while Norwegian keyboardist Jon Balke conjoins baroque string ensemble and Fourth World progenitor, trumpeter Jon Hassell ...

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Francesco Bigoni - Mark Solborg - Kevin Brow: Hopscotch

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2012

Hopscotch presenta un trio cosmopolita di stanza a Copenhagen composto dal batterista canadese Kevin Brow (Pete Robbins, Mikkel Ploug, Phil Dwyer, etc.), dal chitarrista danese Mark Solborg (Herb Robertson, Pal Nilssen Love, Evan Parker, etc) e il sassofonista italiano Francesco Bigoni (Enrico Rava, Chris Speed, il collettivo El Gallo Rojo, etc). Il punto d'incontro tra tre ...

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Florencia Ruiz: Luz De La Noche

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2012

La cantante argentina Florencia Ruiz è ben nota nella sua terra natale e probabilmente riuscirà a raggiungere quella considerazione internazionale, che certamente merita, con questo album pieno di forza espressiva, carico di drammaticità, capace di affascinare con arrangiamenti pieni di pathos e raffinata emotività. Sono con lei una ventina di musicisti fra i quali spiccano il ...

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Tim Berne: Snakeoil

Read "Snakeoil" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 3, 2012

Tim Berne's previous contributions on the ECM label--guitarist David Torn's Prezens (ECM, 2005) and bassist Michael Formanek's The Rub and Spare Change (ECM, 2009)--represent some of his best work as a sideman. The alto saxophonist's first ECM release as a leader, Snakeoil, not only represents Berne at his best, but also at his most accessible. Berne's ...

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Tobias Meinhart Quartet: Pursuit of Happiness

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by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2012

Il giovane sassofonista bavarese, alla guida di un quartetto in attività dal 2008 e composto di altrettanto giovani musicisti, presenta un lavoro di jazz allo stesso tempo moderno, classico e rilassatamente swingante. Meinhart - studi a Basilea e Berna prima di volare a New York - sceglie un repertorio originale (tre i brani a sua firma, ...

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Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond

Read "Long Pair Bond" reviewed by William Carey

by William Carey
February 3, 2012

Several songs on Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs' Long Pair Bond, including the ballad “Elsabella," are lilting and beautiful enough to have an almost hypnotic effect. The interplay between Gunnlaugs and bassist Þorgrímur Jónsson is clearly borne out of a great deal of time spent working together. Along with drummer Scott McLemore, who contributed three compositions to ...

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Joel Harrison - Lorenzo Feliciati: Holy Abyss

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by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2012

Questa musica è dolente e luminosa allo stesso tempo ed è molto bene rappresentata dal titolo dell'album, che fa riferimento ai 'sacri abissi.' Infatti la luminescenza scura di questo ottimo lavoro, è proprio quella tipica che si trova sott'acqua, dove la luce arriva filtrata e diminuita dai sovrastanti metri d'acqua limacciosa. E la sacralità è ovviamente ...