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Alex Lopez: We Can Take This Boat
by Dan Bilawsky
While We Can Take This Boat is the debut from New York-based tenor saxophonist Alex Lopez, he's no unseasoned novice. Lopez studied with saxophonists George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi, and Bob Mintzer, obtained his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Miami and his Masters at the Manhattan School of Music, and managed to turn some ...
Kjell Nordeson / Aram Shelton: Incline
by Glenn Astarita
The avant-garde schema is sort of an open-world platform where almost anything goes. But Incline is an album that sheds a radiant light on the sax-drums duo format, featuring an inordinate degree of textural components and a seamless integration of two like-minded artists, performing on similar planes. Here, Swedish drummer Kjell Nordeson and American alto saxophonist ...
Four Bags: Fourth
by AAJ Italy Staff
I newyorkesi Four Bags sembrano la versione colta di una band di buskers nutriti con una dieta di tradizione jazz, musica funzionale, armonizzazioni balcaniche e mediorientali e una buona dose di rock. Del resto, i membri di questa formazione vantano esperienze con alcuni guru di generi musicali diversissimi e aprendo il ventaglio delle loro collaborazioni si ...
radio.string.quartet.vienna: radiodream
by Bruce Lindsay
Ah, a string quartet. Calm, gentle--if rather derivative--music may well await. But there's a short verse on the inside cover of radiodream, the closing line of which serves as a fair warning about much of the music that actually awaits: “you can only escape while you are awake." radio.string.quartet.vienna is a band that not only wishes ...
Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che sfacciato Mark Winkler. Si fa fotografare con un lecca lecca in bocca come se fosse Katy Perry. Ma al contrario della provocante cantante pop, il losangelino qualche qualità nella voce ce le ha davvero. In giro da almeno 25 anni, un'idea di cosa dovrebbe essere la canzone swing l'ha dimostrata: dolcezza, bel canto e tanta ...
Samo Salamon Bassless Trios: Duality
by Nic Jones
Guitarist Samo Salamon is one of those players quietly but fully engaged with moving the music forward. His vocabulary is entirely his own by dint of the individuality of phrasing that pervades the music of both trios featured in this set. Despite the similarity of instrumentation, the two groups' different personalities is testament ...
São Paulo Underground: Tres Cabeças Loucuras
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che annata per Rob Mazurek! Annata di grandi dischi (splendido il trio Starlicker, ma anche il meno conosciuto Calma Gente e la collaborazione con il batterista Enzo Carpentieri) e di ottime apparizioni dal vivo (anche in festival come Cormons o Sant'Anna Arresi), che si chiude con il nuovo lavoro a nome dei São Paulo Underground (che ...
Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief: The Madness of Crowds
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se non lo conoscete ancora appuntatevi il nome di Ingrid Laubrock. La sassofonista, compositrice, band leader tedesca trasferitasi in Inghilterra nell'ormai lontano 1989 e assidua frequentatrice della scena newyorchese, non sbaglia un colpo. Ogni album che licenzia mostra l'ennesima sfaccettatura della sua proteiforme visione musicale e si presenta con le sembianze di un piccolo gioiello. Non ...
Bryan and the Haggards: Still Alive And Kickin' Down The Walls
by Dave Wayne
With the music of country music legends Merle Haggard and Bob Wills as a starting point, tenor saxophonist Bryan Murray and his band have been creating fresh, iconoclastic, and somewhat noisy modern jazz for a few years. The Haggards' second CD, Still Alive And Kickin' Down The Walls, picks up where their stunning debut, Pretend It's ...
Duh: In Just
by Nic Jones
The method of free improvisation kind of guarantees the sound of surprise in a way that few other musical strains do. While the primacy of the moment and the players' responses in it and to it are the prime motivations for the music this will always be the case. This makes the idea of trying to ...
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