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Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe
by Ian Patterson
Trumpeter Enrico Rava has enjoyed a sustained late-career, creative high since returning to ECM with Easy Living (ECM, 2004) after an absence of 20 years. With a largely new and exciting lineup, Tribe balances new compositions with reworked older material, all imbued with Rava's trademark lyricism, embracing warmth and melodic strength. As the 2008 Touchstone Series ...
Bill Cunliffe: That Time of Year
by Larry Taylor
Pianist Bill Cunliffe harkens back to his youth in That Time of Year, recording solos on Christmas songs that he says he fondly remembers. This talented, versatile performer is also an esteemed composer-arranger, having been nominated for Grammy awards three times, winning in 2010 for Best Instrumental Arrangement. A Southern Californian, he currently teaches at California ...
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed
by Dave Wayne
Min-Yoh is the newest star in pianist Satoko Fujii's growing constellation of amazing improvising groups. While the presence of her partner in music and life, virtuoso trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, is a given, Fujii's musical interactions with a seemingly endless array of top-drawer improvisers from all over the world are almost as intimate. The pair gives the ...
David Murray Cuban Ensemble: Plays Nat King Cole En Espanol
by James Nadal
Latin music has culturally been intended for dancing and romancing. Any Latin singer or orchestra worth a cover charge has known this, and David Murray the innovative saxophonist absorbing the role of conductor/arranger on Plays Nat King Cole En Español, demonstrates this concept perfectly. In taking on a project that updates the recordings ...
Hetty Kate: Kissing Bug
by Edward Blanco
British-born, Australian-based vocalist Hetty Kate leads three bands in Melbourne, recording several albums of western swing and lounge-style music. Kissing Bug is her first foray into jazz, showcasing standards from some of her favorite composers, like Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Johnny Richards and Billy Strayhorn. With only five tracks, the effort qualifies as an EP, serving ...
Gaia Cuatro: Visions
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Abeat Records ristampa con il titolo di Visions il primo album dei Gaia Cuatro, registrato in Giappone nel 2004 e già edito come Gaia. In questa nuova versione troviamo aggiunta una bonus track registrata dal vivo a Brescia nel 2010 ("Huayno en 5"), nella quale al quartetto nippo-argentino si affianca Paolo Fresu, e una traccia ...
Pat Mallinger Quartet featuring Bill Carrothers: Home on Richmond
by Dan McClenaghan
Minneapolis/St. Paul-bred Pete Mallinger, steeped in the tradition of saxophonists Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, opens Home on Richmond with Lloyd's “Third Floor Richard." The Chicago-based saxophonist's quartet takes the tune on a wild ride, like a jalopy with a bad wheel alignment careening down a mountain road with questionable brakes. It's a loose-jointed, ...
G. F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill: The Poppy Seed Affair
by Nic Jones
Guitarist G.F. Fitz-Gerald has always mapped out musical territory every bit as distinct as that of Derek Bailey or Hans Reichel, while Lol Coxhill is one of the most distinctive soprano saxophonists on the planet. They've worked as a duo for decades and this one-DVD/two-CD set straddles those decades with rare aplomb. The ...
Jesper Thilo: Jesper Thilo & The American Stars
by Chris Mosey
Jesper Thilo was the Danish saxophonist of choice for nearly all the great US jazz musicians who played Copenhagen in the 1980s. Johnny Griffin, that most demanding of tenor players, pushed him to the limit and had no hesitation in naming him a “great Dane." Among those who included him on their recording ...
AA.VV.: Sulle labbra di un altro
by AAJ Italy Staff
Spettacolare e assolutamente imperdibile il primo di questi due dischetti, usciti (in cofanetto, con tanto di booklet zeppo di belle foto e materiale vario) nei giorni dell'ultimo Premio Tenco. Vi trovano posto le ventuno esecuzioni live della sigla della rassegna, “Lontano lontano," comprese fra il 1989, quando per la prima volta si pensò di affidarla ogni ...
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