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Giovanni Tommaso: Bassoprofilo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella musica di Bassoprofilo, tutta scritta da Giovanni Tommaso, rivivono inflessioni e riferimenti che l'autore ha riesumato dal profondo della sua memoria, del suo variegato bagaglio culturale. Riemergono temi che riecheggiano la vena popolaresca di Nino Rota o Fiorenzo Carpi, atmosfere del cinema muto o dei noir degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, il clima dell'avanspettacolo o ...
Majid Bekkas: Mabrouk
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Bekkas is a leading Gnawa musician who sings and plays the oud, as well as acoustic guitar and guembri, the three-stringed bass-like instrument that provides the trance- inducing pulse of Gnawa music. The Gnawa, in turn, are spiritual brotherhoods formed in Morocco among slaves brought there from sub-Saharan Africa over the centuries. Bekkas has collaborated with ...
Jeff Lorber: Galaxy
by Jeff Winbush
Don't call it a comeback. Call it a throwback. In a time when many of the major players of the fusion era have unplugged, keyboardist Jeff Lorber not only keeps grinding away, he's doubling down. Not by coincidence is Galaxy billed as a Jeff Lorber Fusion project rather than a Lorber solo project. This is clearly ...
Daniele Scannapieco - Walter Ricci: The Cole Porter Songbook
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'omaggio al songbook di Cole Porter realizzato dalla band capitanata da Walter Ricci e Daniele Scannapieco non lascia scampo: grande eleganza formale, profondità espressiva ai massimi livelli, movimenti rispettosi e bilanciati pronti a lasciare un segno tangibile proprio perché pieni di significato e fascino. Nove tracce in tutto. Canzoni, scelte con dedizione nel corposo repertorio del ...
Jake Saslow: Crosby Street
by Mark F. Turner
One of 2011's many notable debuts is saxophonist Jake Saslow's Crosby Street, an ode to the street in New York's iconic SoHo, where the musician's formative years recalled the neighborhood's sights, music, and people. An analogy is formed between the music and the community, one that speaks of a distinct personality carried in Saslow's full-bodied horn ...
Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project
by AAJ Italy Staff
La batterista Terry Lyne Carrington mette assieme un bel manipolo di musiciste per questo The Mosaic Project e con loro si avventura in riletture di brani celebri alternate ad esposizioni di nuove composizioni scritte da lei o dalle sue compagne di viaggio. La musica si ciba del linguaggio jazzistico ma spesso scivola verso un easy listening ...
Joanna Weinberg: The Piano Diaries
by C. Michael Bailey
Joanna Weinberg's The Piano Diaries is not exactly jazz, but it is also not exactly not jazz. Intended for the small stage--appropriate, given her work in several musicals and one-woman shows--the singer/composer's music lives in that overlap between cabaret and jazz. Relocating from South Africa to Sydney, Australia in 1997, the London-born Weinberg is a true ...
Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All
by AAJ Italy Staff
In questi tempi tormentati e dilaniati, solo i poeti sanno indicare il cammino. E Robin Holcomb è una poetessa coi controfiocchi e ovviamente non sbaglia questa ennesima rarefatta occasione. Sono con lei il marito tastierista Wayne Horvitz e un manipolo di eccellenti musicisti canadesi che oscillano operativamente fra Vancouver e Seattle, certamente uno degli snodi geografici ...
The Teaching: 12.26.09 Live at Dazzle
by Florence Wetzel
One of the most inspiring stories in jazz concerns saxophonist John Coltrane's valiant attempt to kick heroin. In the midst of a physical firestorm, Coltrane had a spiritual awakening, and he asked God to give him the means and privilege to make others happy through music--which he ultimately did, creating jazz history in the process.
Blistrap: On Stage
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tre lunghe improvvisazioni senza titolo registrate al al The Klinker di Londra il nove dicembre 2008 la prima, al Noise Upstairs di Manchester due giorni dopo la seconda, al Grind Sight Open Eye di Edinburgo il tredici dicembre, la terza. Il tutto in presa diretta con un registratore digitale, dal suono grezzo, scuro, grumoso come scuro ...
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