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Art Lande / Dave Peterson: Polar Opposites

Read "Polar Opposites" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
January 20, 2012

Nestled in the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, there is a rare and precious jazz gem: pianist Art Lande. Born in 1947, Lande has had a long and fruitful career, including membership in his Rubisa Patrol quartet, which included trumpeter Mark Isham and drummer Bill Douglass. He recorded for ECM from 1973 to 1987, with players such ...

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Frank Carlberg: Uncivilized Ruminations

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2012

Finlandese di nascita e americano d'adozione, Carlberg attinge per questo stimolante lavoro (che giunge a quasi vent'anni dal suo album d'esordio, Blind Drive, del 1992) al bacino dell'orchestra di Nicholas Urie (nel suo recente, notevole My Garden figurano tutti i musicisti del sestetto tranne i due sax), replicandone, su scala più ridotta e per la stessa ...

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Sara Serpa: Mobile

Read "Mobile" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 20, 2012

Portuguese singer Sara Serpa is what is produced when the talents of Gretchen Parlato, Simin Tander and Tierney Sutton coalesce. Her voice is light and elastic, sporting a fierce intellect. Couple this with a vision/sense of humor of a Nicholas Urie and the result is a radioactive type of 21st Century Beat Poetry. Like Urie and ...

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Ben Williams: State of Art

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2012

State of Art è un disco nel quale il bassista Ben Williams riversa a piene mani tutte le sue passioni musicali, che spaziano dal jazz in senso stretto all'hip-hop, dal gospel al R&B; raggiungendo una fusione interessante, per certi versi originale, e piena di spunti creativi. La tracklist si snoda attraverso undici passaggi, che conoscono gli ...

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Inaki Sandoval: Miracielos

Read "Miracielos" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 20, 2012

Iñaki Sandoval is a Barcelona-based pianist, composer and educator. Beautiful, affecting and constantly rewarding, Miracielos is his third album as a leader and establishes him as a superb writer and player. Sandoval is backed by the experienced Eddie Gomez on bass and Billy Hart on drums. Both are players of great sensitivity and ...

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Sunna Gunnlaugs: The Dream

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2012

Da parecchi anni il jazz europeo in generale è riconosciuto in tutto il mondo per il suo valore indiscusso ed è indubbio che la scena jazzistica scandinava ha avuto una fondamentale importanza nella crescita del movimento. Andando ancora più a nord, esattamente in Islanda, scopriamo un talento formidabile, la pianista Sunna Gunnlaugs. Se da un lato ...

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Amy Cervini: Digging Me Digging You

Read "Digging Me Digging You" reviewed by William Carey

by William Carey
January 20, 2012

It's funny hearing such signature Blossom Dearie songs as “Dear John" and the Schoolhouse Rock classic “Figure Eight" without that oh-so-identifiable voice and delivery. Funny, but Amy Cervini is a talented enough vocalist that it isn't the slightest bit distracting to not have that adorably individual style and delivery that is unmistakably Blossom Dearie.

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Nu Braz: Baticumbum

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2012

E chi ha detto che la facilità non debba conciliarsi con la qualità? Baticumbum di Nu Braz è un album pubblicato dalla bolognese Irma Records, etichetta che, fra tante pubblicazioni dall'ascolto fresco e semplice, non ha mai dimenticato di promuovere solo musica di valore. È il caso di questo fortunato progetto del dj Emmanuele Cucchi tutto ...

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Ivo Perelman Quartet: The Hour of the Star

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 19, 2012

Liberamente ispirato da “A Hora da estrela" ultimo libro scritto da Clarice Lispector, giornalista e novellista brasiliano di famiglia ebraica e che narra la vita di una povera donna dello stato di Alagoas proiettata improvvisamente nella solitudine della metropoli (Rio de Janeiro), The Hour of the Star è il titolo del nuovo lavoro discografico del cinquantenne ...

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Jacques Pellarin Quartet: Sup Dude

Read "Sup Dude" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 19, 2012

French accordionist and composer Jacques Pellarin has the welcome ability to craft music which is technically challenging, yet immediately accessible and engaging. Sup Dude is a joyous album, filled with refreshingly unpretentious tunes performed with skill and obvious pleasure by his quartet--a pleasure readily communicated to others. Sup Dude follows 2010's self-produced trio date, Karenita, adding ...