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Tarab: Tarab
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quintetto dedito alla rilettura del folklore irlandese comprendente anche il torinese Francesco Turrisi, di stanza a Dublino dal 2006, Tarab si fa apprezzare anzitutto per la bellezza degli impasti timbrici, il tono chiaro, netto, l'incedere sempre vitale. Dopo l'iniziale “Delicious Moments," colpisce il “Salterello" che segue, visto che è esattamente quello a suo tempo rivisitato dal ...
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone: Departure of Reason
by Troy Collins
Departure of Reason is guitarist Mary Halvorson and violist Jessica Pavone's fourth duo recording, following Thin Air (Thirsty Ear, 2009), On and Off (Skirl, 2007) and Prairies (Lucky Kitchen, 2005). As leading lights of the fertile Brooklyn scene, their unique musical vocabulary encompasses a wealth of seemingly unrelated genres, from flamenco and folk to madrigal and ...
McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner: Extensions
by Chris May
Languishing off-catalogue for many years, McCoy Tyner's Extensions may be the pianist's most unjustly neglected album. Strange days, for not only is the music ineffably vibrant, but Extensions is the only recording ever to feature Tyner alongside pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, who replaced him in saxophonist John Coltrane's group in 1966. The album has one ...
Rich Halley Quartet: Requiem for a Pit Viper
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con Requiem for a Pit Viper il tenorista Rich Halley fa debuttare un quartetto inedito, anche se composto da due suoi sidemen più fidati, Michael Vlatkovich al trombone e Clyde Reed al basso. A completare la formazione Carson Halley, figlio di Rich, alla batteria. Si tratta di un'opera con i piedi ben piantati nella cultura afroamericana, ...
Francesco Cafiso: Moody'n
by Nicholas F. Mondello
"Youth will be served." That is a saying appropriately describing the meteoric rise to success that Sicilian alto saxophonist Francesco Cafiso has achieved since he turned “professional" at nine years old. With Moody 'n, Cafiso plunges deeply into the BeBop canon performing a handful of classics and, in doing so demonstrates both the bravado of a ...
Claire Daly Quintet: Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose
by AAJ Italy Staff
La storia di Mary Joyce è di quelle che sembrano fatte apposta per appassionare e per diventare la trama ideale di un film. Cresciuta nel Wisconsin, breve esperienza a Hollywood negli anni venti poi la decisione di trasferirsi in Alaska in un lodge solitario. Qui inizia la sua vita leggendaria tra avventure e sfide ritenute impossibili, ...
Kaze: Rafaele
by Dave Wayne
Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii are as furiously creative as they are prolific. These days, they release new music in batches of three or four CDs, each with different personnel, though often with some compositional overlap--completely forgivable, since the same material sounds completely different (often rewardingly so) in the hands of a different ensemble. ...
Excess Luggage: Hand Luggage Only
by Dave Wayne
Given this Norwegian trio's two keyboards-plus-drums instrumentation, there may be the expectation of something avant-garde, or perhaps something reminiscent of '70s-era prog rock. However, on Hand Luggage Only, Excess Luggage's core values are firmly oriented towards aggressive, swinging modern jazz. This is clear from the CD's first track, the bobbing, weaving “Annoying You." The title may ...
Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe
by AAJ Italy Staff
Enrico Rava torna a incidere per la ECM di Manfred Eicher a due anni di distanza da New York Days, insieme a Petrella, Guidi, Sferra, Evangelista e Ancillotto, musicisti esperti, anche se alcuni ancora molto giovani, capaci di intendere al meglio sia la filosofia musicale del leader che le consuete attitudini dell'etichetta bavarese. Tribe è un ...
Bruce Barth Trio: Live at Smalls
by AAJ Italy Staff
Alla guida di un trio compatto ed assortito, Barth firma un pregevole disco nel segno dello swing. Grazie anche alla dimensione live la musica qui proposta ben rappresenta la mutevole cifra stilistica del pianista statunitense, giunto al dodicesimo cd da leader. Tutto si sviluppa all'insegna della sorpresa e della discontinuità, nell'intento di dar forma a multiformi ...
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