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Hillmen: The Whiskey Mountain Sessions

Read "The Whiskey Mountain Sessions" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 31, 2012

The group name and album title might imply semblances of a bluegrass jam-session, but Hillmen's The Whiskey Mountain Sessions is, in fact, an improvised jazz-rock set tinted with psychedelics, featuring keyboardist Gayle Ellett and guitarist Mike Murray, of the fabled Southern California progressive rock band Djam Karet. It's an electro-organic schematic sans instrumental overlays or audio ...

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Jim Ketch: A Distant View

Read "A Distant View" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 31, 2012

A Distant View delivers intelligent music performed by highly involved players across a dozen diverse selections ranging from straight-ahead hard bop, calypso, an obligatory standard and a Chuck Mangione-esque soft rock tidbit thrown in for dessert. Incorporating a classic Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers quintet formula, these outstanding players share a common interest here in ...

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Stanley Jordan: Friends

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2012

Stanley Jordan comparve circa trent'anni fa sulla scena jazz come una promessa importante, apparentemente in grado di rivoluzionare il suo strumento, anche da un punto di vista tecnico (ricorderete tutti il suo tapping a due mani sulla tastiera della chitarra...). Non è andata così e dopo tanti anni il chitarrista è un po' rientrato nei ranghi ...

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Keith Tippett: From Granite to Wind

Read "From Granite to Wind" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2012

From Granite to Wind, registrata nel gennaio 2011, è una suite senza interruzioni che dura quarantasette minuti. Il titolo stesso sembra alludere a un percorso sonoro che da forme granitiche, ruvide e compatte, giunge all'eterea inconsistenza del vento, articolandosi al suo interno in passaggi obbligati, temi incisivi, sviluppi improvvisativi, momenti di transizione, fasi toniche ed altre ...

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Antonio Tosques: Block Notes

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2012

Questo secondo disco del chitarrista pugliese Antonio Tosques lo vede alla prese con un contesto stilistico che punta decisamente al jazz mainstream venato di hard bop. Tosques quindi sceglie di lasciarsi alle spalle le atmosfere più derivative della musica fusion che avevano caratterizzato il suo album precedente, Synopsis. La presenza del pianista veterano Mike Melillo è ...

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Heddy Boubaker / Hernani Faustino: Domino Doubles

Read "Domino Doubles" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
January 30, 2012

Saxophonist Heddy Boubaker and bassist Hernani Faustino have more in common than their love for improvised music. Both began their musical journeys playing in rock bands, before harkening to the call of free music.Boubaker was born in Marseilles in 1963 and began what he calls experimenting with music in 1977. First came rock and ...

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Joanna Weinberg: The Piano Diaries

Read "The Piano Diaries" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
January 30, 2012

Australian vocalist Joanna Weinberg is a difficult artist to pigeonhole in one genre. A testament to her versatility, The Piano Diaries is a very personal debut stemming from her restarting piano lessons after a three-decade hiatus, and represents a musical distillation of her eponymous autobiographical one-woman show. The dozen-song set showcases her various ...

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Pierre Favre Ensemble: Le Voyage

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2012

Ciò che da sempre rende diverso Pierre Favre da molti colleghi (almeno dai tempi del collettivo Singing Drums) è il fatto che - nonostante sia un batterista - non è mai debordante. Può anche far sorridere, ma la storia della musica moderna ci viene in aiuto, raccontando di chiari protagonismi che (non se ne vogliano i ...

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Hristo Vitchev / Weber Iago: Heartmony

Read "Heartmony" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 30, 2012

The choice between widening ones circle of musical partners or deepening relationships that already exist is often something with which musicians wrestle. While finding new collaborators can help in the networking department and open up new avenues of possibility in sound and style, continual exploration with a kindred spirit may help both parties in their pursuit ...

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Travis Laplante: Heart Protector

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2012

Heart Protector è il disco di esordio di Travis Laplante, dopo la sua esperienza col quartetto “Little Women" con i quali aveva dato alle stampe Throat. Il disco - in pratica un lungo assolo per sax tenore - arriva dopo un periodo di malattia che ha portato il musicista prima ad una profonda depressione, poi - ...