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Sean McGowan: Sphere

Read "Sphere" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
December 14, 2011

For many jazz lovers, pianist Thelonious Monk's solo recordings of his own compositions are an exquisite pleasure. The simplicity of a single instrument reveals the compositions' elegant architecture, allowing their angular beauty to become refreshingly clear. The challenge and joy of recording Monk's music solo continues to entice musicians, thus creating afresh some of the twentieth ...

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Lorenzo Tucci: Tranety

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 14, 2011

Tranety è il disco con il quale il batterista Lorenzo Tucci rende omaggio alla figura immensa di John Coltrane, affiancato dai sempre validi Claudio Filippini al pianoforte e Luca Bulgarelli al contrabbasso. Niente sax o altri strumenti a fiato dunque, per quella che apparentemente potrebbe sembrare l'ennesima operazione di devozione fine a se stessa, ma che ...

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Bill Cunliffe: That Time of Year

Read "That Time of Year" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
December 14, 2011

West Coast pianist Bill Cunliffe has released a most welcome holiday disc in That Time of Year. With Christmas coming commercially before Halloween in bigger and more brazen waves each year, having the music of the season reduced to its sheer elements by a well-versed master is refreshing, if not spiritually reviving. Cunliffe's pianism is urbane ...

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Led Bib: Bring Your Own

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 14, 2011

Le giovani leve inglesi stanno dando molte soddisfazioni a chi crede che il jazz sia una musica in continuo movimento capace di rigenerarsi dall'incontro con nuove culture e generi musicali. E, a tal proposito, numerosi sono i nomi di gruppi eterodossi e “senza frontiere" che vengono in mente: Troyka, Aquarium, The Quartet, Polar Bear, Blue Touch ...

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Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: In Case The World Changes Its Mind

Read "In Case The World Changes Its Mind" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
December 14, 2011

In Case the World Changes Its Mind reaffirms the chemistry at the heart of the collaboration between nouveau-jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood and guitarist extraordinaire, John Scofield. Hearing this live recording reveals the delicate, almost precarious, balance of factors that put them finely in tune with each other. Recorded on the 2006 tour ...

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Nicole Metzger and The New York Connection: That's What I Want To Do

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 14, 2011

A distanza di otto anni dal debutto con questa formazione (At Any Other Time), la cantante tedesca torna con un pregevole lavoro registrato a Colonia nel dicembre 2010, consistente in temi originali scritti in prevalenza da Joe Fonda e Michael Jefry Stevens. La carriera artistica della Metzger è iniziata nella seconda metà degli anni Novanta ed ...

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Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica: Third River Rangoon

Read "Third River Rangoon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 14, 2011

La grafica di copertina, il nome del gruppo, il titolo dell'album e quello dei brani indirizzano senza esitazione verso la cosiddetta lounge music. Musica che non impegna la mente, che ti accarezza leggera come brezza che arriva dal mare mentre si conversa con gli amici gustando cocktails dal nome esotico... Ed in effetti Third River Rangoon ...

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FAB Trio: History of Jazz in Reverse

Read "History of Jazz in Reverse" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
December 14, 2011

A trio consisting of violin, bass and drums might seem a little thin, but violinist Billy Bang, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Barry Altschul know a thing or two about this music and their collective effort on this disc combines elements of the intellectual and the physical. The result is, perhaps unsurprisingly, music which appeals in ...

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Dado Moroni - Alfonso Alberti: Duets

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 13, 2011

Originale iniziativa dell'etichetta Limen, questo cofanetto - ennesimo di una serie che include un CD e un DVD - nasce con l'intenzione di confrontare pianismo jazz e classico avvicinando cinque brani composti ed eseguiti da Dado Moroni (alcuni con l'accompagnamento al contrabbasso di Aldo Zunino) a brani di compositori come Niccolò Castiglioni e Luigi Dallapiccola, eseguiti ...

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Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago: The Big Lift

Read "The Big Lift" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 13, 2011

Canada-reared, but calling San Francisco home since 1997, trumpeter and composer Darren Johnston delves into the Chicago's avant, modern-jazz establishment and kicks off a vibrant set, with prominent constituents of The Windy City's fertile soundscape. With The Big Lift, the trumpeter's ascending status within the outer reaches of jazz attains another hierarchical level. Peppered ...