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Juan Andrés Ospina: BBB (Barcelona Bogota Boston)

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by Lewis J Whittington

The jazz diary of pianist/composer Juan Andrés Ospina's BBB is an elegant, untethered tour of primary musical colors, with inviting light, angles and shadows. “Todavía No" states the theme with percussionist Austin McMahon's airy drums swinging, with tango punctuations. Saxophonists Ben Roseth and actually Matan Chapnizka dominate with flights of jazz fancy, though it is Ospina's ...

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RED Trio + John Butcher: Empire

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by John Sharpe

By inviting English saxophonist John Butcher to join them in a Lisbon studio, the Portuguese Red Trio executed a stroke of genius. Together they stretch pianist Bill Evans' democratic ethos to its logical conclusion: no-one leads, no-one follows, but paradoxically all four move as one, exploring timbre and mood across three collectively improvised cuts. The threesome's ...

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Gösta Berlings Saga: Glue Works

Read "Glue Works" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La Saga di Gösta Berling è un romanzo della scrittrice svedese Selma Lagerlöf, premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1909. Pubblicato nel 1891, è un'opera che rievoca antiche storie e leggende del freddo Värmland (regione della Svezia dove nacque la scrittrice). Ebbene, il titolo di questo geniale racconto, che ispirò nel 1923 al regista e attore ...

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Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade: Cosmic Rift

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Un brano di Olivier Messiaen, uno di Frank Zappa (che gran accoppiata!), più cinque originali. Un contrabbasso rigorosamente acustico e profondamente ortodosso (ma non fatevi ingannare dalla prima impressione), una chitarra rigorosamente elettrica e molto lontana dall'ortodossia, clarinetto basso e vibrafono, più uno specialista dell'elettronica come Tim Perkis. Ossia Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade e Cosmic Rift, ...

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Sandy Evans: When the Sky Cries Rainbows

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by Ian Patterson

The multifaceted Sandy Evans is often described as one of Australia's finest jazz musicians and composers. True enough, but as When the Sky Cries Rainbows amply demonstrates, this saxophonist surely ranks as one of the best contemporary jazz composers/musicians anywhere. A musical response to her husband, clarinetist Tony Gorman's multiple sclerosis, this sixty-minute, suite-like work conveys ...

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Markelian Kapedani Trio: Balkan Bop

Read "Balkan Bop" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Were we able to quantitate talent density as a function of label catalog size, Sergio Veschi's Red Records would doubtless be close to the top. His generosity to Italian and foreign musicians alike has resulted in a great jazz label. Albanian activist/pianist/composer Markelian Kapedani adds to this fine catalog with Balkan Bop, a standard piano trio ...

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Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 2

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Nel primo volume di questa serie, il chitarrista francese Marc Ducret aveva posto le premesse per lo sviluppo di un progetto molto interessante che conferma i suoi punti di forza anche in questo secondo volume. Al suo fianco, al posto dei musicisti danesi coinvolti nel primo episodio, troviamo due americani e un francese di assoluto valore. ...

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Le Boeuf Brothers: In Praise of Shadows

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by AAJ Italy Staff

I gemelli Le Bouef licenziano un lavoro che porta all'interno delle sue undici tracce diversi motivi di interesse, sia formali che espressivi. In Praise of Shadows mostra la buona ampiezza timbrica pensata da Remy e Pascal, che all'interno delle loro strutture armoniche fanno coesistere elementi di elettronica, strumenti acustici e le tessiture melodiche del Myth String ...

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Erland Dahlen: Rolling Bomber

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by Glenn Astarita

Norwegian drummer Erland Dahlen's solo debut proffers several areas of interest, as he uses a 1940s Rollingbomber Slingerland drum kit (presumably using new heads) and overlays an array of small percussion and string instruments, electronics and other implements to craft a striking electro-organic expedition. However, the program intimates an inside view of a drummer exploiting his ...

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Fvl: Latorrenelmare

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Se si dovesse riassumere questo disco in un aggettivo, esso sarebbe “esatto". La precisione, la meticolosa definizione dei ruoli e degli spazi, infatti, sembrano essere i valori estetici perseguiti dal quartetto tutto toscano Fvl. Oppure, se il termine non avesse assunto un'accezione quasi spregiativa, si potrebbe a buon diritto qualificare Latorrenelmare come un lavoro accademico: il ...


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