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Jon Corbett's Dangerous Musics: Kongens Gade

Read "Kongens Gade" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 18, 2012

Legendary European jazz and free-jazz drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo gels to a higher-power along with prominent exponents of the British jazz scene in this egalitarian rendezvous. Led by energetic hornist Jon Corbett, who seemingly exhausts all possibilities of this expressionistic voyage, bassist Nick Stephens' limber and expansive bottom-end assists with seeding a loose but manifold structural component. ...

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John Basile: Amplitudes

Read "Amplitudes" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 18, 2012

Il nuovo lavoro di John Basile, Amplitudes è sicuramente uno dei primi lavori jazzistici registrati usando un'applicazione dell'iPhone: infatti il musicista ha sovrainciso il suono di più chitarre nel telefonino via Pro-Tool. Ma non spaventatevi, qui non ci sono diavolerie elettroniche, anzi. Basile si aiuta con le nuove tecnologie ma non rinnega il passato, infatti se ...

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Ark Ovrutski: Sounds of Brasil

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 18, 2012

Il bassista ucraino Ark Ovrutski si è trasferito a New York cinque/sei anni fa. La grande mela è una città che offre a tutti la possibilità di confrontarsi con tutti, a cominciare proprio da altri immigrati che hanno la mente aperta e la voglia di trovare nuovi spunti provenienti da altre culture. E di mischiarli con ...

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Axel's Axiom: Uncommon Sense

Read "Uncommon Sense" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 18, 2012

Since graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 2004, German-born pianist Axel Schwintzer has kept busy teaching, playing throughout New England, performing at the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and playing various venues in the New York City area since relocating there in 2007. Axel's Axiom may not be familiar ...

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Jim Snidero: Interface

Read "Interface" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2012

Snidero è uno dei massimi sassofonisti contemporanei di scuola hard bop. Tecnicamente ineccepibile, si esprime con un sound intenso e un fraseggio ricco di tensione, che sa distendersi liricamente evidenziando una ricca gamma di sfumature. Questo è il suo sedicesimo disco da leader e il logico successore di Crossfire, registrato un paio d'anni fa con lo ...

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Paesani-Dal Pozzo-Mazzucco Trio: Wayne's Playground

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2012

La musica di Wayne Shorter possiede quell'insieme di sfaccettature, increspature, sospensioni di senso in grado di descrivere la complessità dell'umana esistenza. Interrogativa, assertiva, fragile, audace: tra le righe delle partiture si può trascolorare dalla dimensione onirica alla sferzante realtà. La sua equidistanza tra il linguaggio della tradizione e quello delle aperture radicali ha spesso incoraggiato un ...

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Daniel Bennett Group: Peace And Stability Among Bears

Read "Peace And Stability Among Bears" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 17, 2012

The album art (a bear bedecked in Wild West accouterments) and song titles ("Farmer Joe Was A Bear," “Dogs Of Our Time") of Daniel Bennett Group's Peace & Stability Among Bears promise a good--if cartoonish--time. What's going on in the music, however, is something altogether different. The quartet performance led by reeds player Bennett sounds light ...

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Rick Stone Trio: Fractals

Read "Fractals" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 17, 2012

Trio recordings hold a special place in jazz. Bass and drums, teaming with a piano or guitar, give the front man the most room for instrumental self expression (saxophone out front is a different matter). Though he may not be the busiest of guitarists in terms of recording, with a good stretch of time between Samba ...

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Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Read "Smul's Paradise" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 17, 2012

Recognized as one of the premiere baritone saxophonist in jazz today, Gary Smulyan has long had an affinity for the classic jazz organ trios and on Smul's Paradise he finally pays tribute to the format joining forces with Mike LeDonne, a master of the Hammond B3 organ. Not since saxophonist Ronnie Cuber performed with Lonnie Smith ...

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Mats/Morgan Band: Live

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2012

La storia dei due leader di questa band svedese, Mats Öberg (tastiere) e Morgan Ågren (batteria), ha il sapore di una leggenda. Entrambi appassionati di Frank Zappa, iniziano a suonare insieme da giovanissimi: Mats a soli 11 anni e Morgan, appena più grandicello, 15 anni. Si fanno le ossa provando le composizioni del genio di Baltimora ...