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Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond

Read "Long Pair Bond" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 2, 2012

With Long Pair Bond, Sunna Gunnlaugs returns to the piano trio format last heard on Far Far Away. Since that 1997 self-titled debut--the only album to use her tongue-twisting full name, Gunnlaugsdóttir--the Icelandic pianist has, in addition to contracting her name to the eminently more memorable Gunnlaugs, recorded almost exclusively with quartets, largely populated with American ...

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Naked Truth: Shizaru

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2012

Naked Truth, la nuda verità è che dietro questo nome si nasconde una sorta di improbabile supergruppo. Lorenzo Feliciati è di casa presso molti dei più importanti artisti pop (e non solo) italiani (Niccolò Fabi, Tiromancino, Agostino Marangolo, Irene Grandi,..). Pat Mastellotto è stato batterista degli ultimi King Crimson, Roy Powell ha prestato i servigi delle ...

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Grünes Blatt: Thirteen Ways

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2012

Sestetto pienamente nel segno di quelle che si è soliti definire “pari opportunità" (tre uomini e tre donne), questo Grünes Blatt, sorto nel 2008 e qui al suo album d'esordio, in cui folklore rumeno e jazz contemporaneo si incontrano in un cocktail coerente e sufficientemente originale. I climi tendono alla pacatezza e alla riflessività, raffinati e ...

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Tom Arthurs and Richard Fairhurst: Postcards From Pushkin

Read "Postcards From Pushkin" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 2, 2012

Trumpeter Tom Arthurs wrote the music for Postcards From Pushkin in 2009, according to his liner notes, “in a moment of particular calm and reflection" when he was a BBC New Generation Artist. Inspired by the works of the Russian poet and author Alexandr Pushkin (1799-1837), Arthurs and his musical collaborator, pianist Richard Fairhurst (of The ...

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Jo-Yu Chen Trio: Incomplete Soul

Read "Incomplete Soul" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 2, 2012

Taiwanese-born pianist Jo-Yu Chen is going somewhere. The cover photo of her Incomplete Soul shows the artist in the back seat of a car, gazing at an indeterminate distance, with a look of quiet, unyielding determination on her face. Her journey with this recording is one of a melding of her classical influences with the improvisational ...

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Francesco Scaramuzzino: Changes of Direction

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2012

Changes of Direction ruota attorno a Francesco Scaramuzzino - pianista e leader di questo lavoro - e al chitarrista Pietro Condorelli. Le melodie che i due sviluppano segnano in maniera profonda i brani proposti, dodici originali che evidenziano la doppia natura stilistica di Scaramuzzino. Se da una parte emerge la sua anima gentile e garbata, tipica ...

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The Bad Plus: Never Stop

Read "Never Stop" reviewed by Thomas Carroll

by Thomas Carroll
February 2, 2012

For the past decade, The Bad Plus has received both praise and criticism for its idiosyncratic approach to jazz-rock. Liberal jazz fans and those who are inclined towards the mainstream but want to dabble in jazz have enthusiastically received the band's modern piano trio reworking of rock standards such as Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit" and ...

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Ran Blake - Dominique Eade: Whirlpool

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2012

Già allieva di Ran Blake al New England Conservatory, Dominique Eade giunge a quest'incisione dopo due decenni di carriera professionale, in cui ha dato ampiamente prova delle sue doti, collaborando e incidendo con prestigiosi musicisti. Il suo primo disco risale al 1990 (The Ruby And The Pearl) e la vedeva assieme al batterista Alan Dawson e ...

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Benny Lackner Trio: Cachuma

Read "Cachuma" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 1, 2012

Pianist Benny Lackner can do whatever he wants, and says as much with “I Can Do Whatever I Want," the opener on his forward-leaning Cachuma. This piano trio outing suggests he wants to nudge the trio setting into a modern groove while giving voice to his own artistic vision.Modernization of the tried and true ...

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Pablo Bobrowicky: Southern Blue

Read "Southern Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 1, 2012

Argentinian guitarist Pablo Bobrowicky has a beautifully unadorned and organic tone, as naked as an electrified guitar can be. He makes it a point not to hide behind reverb, sustain, or overdrive, producing a plectrum sound halfway between electric and acoustic. On Southern Blue, his fourth Red Records recording as a leader, Bobrowicky returns to the ...