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San Francisco Latin Jazz Society: Now What

Read "Now What" reviewed by Lewis J Whittington

by Lewis J Whittington
January 17, 2012

Now What is raucous, adventurous music from The San Francisco Latin Jazz Society--the first of two winter 2012 releases from this electric, bluesy ensemble--and a reminder that Stateside studio jazz is not permanently lurching toward predigested pop territory as it might sometimes seem. On its website, SFLJS states it has had many aliases, including New Latin ...

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Kyle Eastwood: Songs From The Chateau

Read "Songs From The Chateau" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2012

Songs from the Chateau raccoglie nove brani che riescono a tradurre il feeling e l'unione d'intenti che caratterizza il quintetto capitanato da Kyle Eastwood, bassista e compositore di livello, oltre che figlio del celeberrimo attore americano.La scaletta si apre con “Marciac," un brano dal ritmo importante, segnato da una melodia luminosa e da un ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Eto

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2012

Sessanta come gli anni del marito trombettista Natsuki Tamura. Sessanta come numero magico dello zodiaco cinese, in Giappone chiamato Eto, dove si incontrano (12x5=60 e 10x6=60) sistema numerico duodecimale e sistema decimale. Zodiaco cinese che contiene in ogni ciclo dodici anni e, a ciascun anno, fa corrispondere un animale. Qualche numero, dunque, per spiegare la genesi ...

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Szilàrd Mezei Trio: Tisza

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2012

Il trentasettenne violista serbo-ungherese Szilàrd Mezei è una di quelle figure (purtroppo non rare) la cui fama non tiene minimamente dietro allo spessore creativo. Discograficamente (iper)attivo dal 2004, ha pubblicato da allora oltre una ventina di album, tra i quali questo occupa una posizione certo non secondaria, a iniziare dalla compiutezza “geometrica" del gruppo, la sua ...

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Tiziana Ghiglioni - Federico Ceratti: Figli

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2012

"Morì a causa di un incidente il 24 settembre del 2008 lasciandoci in eredità un centinaio di canzoni. Noi che gli abbiamo voluto bene e crediamo nel suo messaggio, vogliamo che il suo spirito non vada perduto. Il CD che presentiamo vuole essere soltanto una prima testimonianza del suo talento, della sua capacità di amare, della ...

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Louis Moholo-Moholo - Dudu Pukwana - Johnny Dyani with Rev. Frank Wright: Spiritual Knowledge and Grace

Read "Spiritual Knowledge and Grace" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2012

Ogni tanto alla Ogun tirano fuori dal cilindro tesori assoluti come questa rara registrazione dal vivo catturata in Olanda nel lontano 1979 che ritrova a far vera festa di musica tre membri degli indimenticabili Blue Notes accanto al “vulcano" Frank Wright, come sempre - in quel tempo - in evidente stato di grazia. Spesso, anzi, sempre ...

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Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu featuring Jaques Morelenbaum: Alma

by Dan Bilawsky
January 16, 2012

Trying to keep pace with the musical projects of pianist Omar Sosa or trumpeter Paolo Fresu is an almost-athletic pursuit. Calling either man prolific is an understatement, but what's more impressive than the quantity of music they release is the quality of their output. Both have tapped into an eternal wellspring of creativity that eludes most ...

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Lars Jansson Trio with Ensemble MidtVest: Worship Of Self

Read "Worship Of Self" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
January 16, 2012

Pianist Lars Jansson's music is beyond category. Its roots are in jazz but, especially on Worship Of Self, it also embraces the Western classical tradition, bringing to mind the genius of Leonard Bernstein. Jansson hails from Sweden's second city, Gothenburg, but frequently visits Japan with his trio and is a self-proclaimed Zen Buddhist, ...

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Samuel Blaser Quartet: Boundless

Read "Boundless" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 16, 2012

In his relatively brief tenure as a professional jazz musician who derives influences from classical music studies and John Cage-tinted abstractions, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's craft teems with curiously interesting applications and concepts. He's recorded for other prominent European record labels, but debuts on the historic Swiss-based hatOLOGY label with Boundless.Blaser imparts a penchant ...

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Lord Kelvin: Radio Has No Future

Read "Radio Has No Future" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 16, 2012

William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), was a Scottish physicist, engineer and inventor who defined absolute zero--the theoretical absence of all thermal energy. The musical incarnation of Lord Kelvin comes from Norway--certainly a cold place on the globe--its three members meeting while attending the famous Trondheim Conservatory. Like its debut, (Dances in the Smoke ...