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Francesco Cafiso: Moody'n

Read "Moody'n" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 8, 2011

Dieci brani suddivisi tra celebri standard e originali capaci di allinearsi a una certa tradizione boppistica compongono Moody'n, lavoro firmato da Francesco Cafiso per l'etichetta Verve. La consueta cifra virtuosistica del leader unita a una forma espressiva di sicuro impatto sono i segni più evidenti di questa seduta di registrazione, nella quale svolgono ruoli di primaria ...

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Hendrik Meurkens: Live At Bird's Eye

Read "Live At Bird's Eye" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 8, 2011

As a virtuoso harmonicist and vibraphonist, Hendrik Meurkens has always reigned supreme in the unique instrument doublers category, yet he never seems to get the attention he fully deserves. The German-born, New York-based Meurkens has been making beautiful and bouncy Brazilian-based music for decades with his instruments of choice, and Live At Bird's Eye is no ...

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Deric Dickens: Speed Date

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 8, 2011

Venti brani racchiusi in meno di un'ora. Se poi si legge che “Swing It Sista" - meravigliosa prestazione di Jeremy Udden al sax tenore, suono d'altri tempi, fraseggio contemporaneo, una sorta di Lester Young del terzo millennio - dura oltre sette minuti capirete la filosofia che sorregge questa registrazione. Deric Dickens, percussionista e compositore originario della ...

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Benjamin Duboc: Primare Cantus

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by Eyal Hareuveni
December 8, 2011

French double bassist Benjamin Duboc is one of the busiest musicians in the left-of-center experimental scene of musicians today in Europe. This prolific musician plays regularly with Japanese trumpet player Itaru Oki (who is based in France), in duo and with the NUTS quintet, and with many of the elite of French improvisers, including pianist Jobic ...

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Elias Krantz: Night Ice

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 8, 2011

Il polistrumentista svedese Elias Krantz potrà sembrare troppo ambizioso quanto vago nel descrivere il genere musicale del suo nuovo album Night Ice (il secondo, sempre su etichetta Country & Eastern) come “Al Dente-post-rock-indie-instrumental-krautrock-neojazz-alternative-electronic-psychedelic-pop," ma ascoltando il suo lavoro è effettivamente difficile trovarne una definizione che utilizzi meno aggettivi. Volendo limitarsi a uno, quello che meglio lo ...

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Vazytouille: Vazytouille

Read "Vazytouille" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
December 7, 2011

Vazytouille is a sonic menagerie similar to experiencing Cirque du Soleil. This debut is envisioned by a large ensemble comprised of members from Zoone Libre, a collective of performance musicians, and other artists based in Lille, France. The typecast concept of a big band is a little misleading as the fourteen members represents smaller subsections like ...

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David S. Ware: Organica (Solo Saxophones, Volume 2)

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by John Sharpe
December 7, 2011

As the follow up to saxophonist David S. Ware's lauded Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume 1) (AUM Fidelity, 2010) studio session, this second volume comprises two entire concerts documented in March and November 2010, each pairing matching titled cuts on sopranino and tenor saxophones. If the previous album served to demonstrate that the reedman's solo ...

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Francesco D'Errico Trio: A Glance

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by AAJ Italy Staff
December 7, 2011

L'etichetta campana Itinera ci ha abituato a dischi inattesi, nei quali si scopre musica personale, nata ora da incontri tra culture diverse, ora da passioni coltivate con pazienza e dedizione. Non stupisce perciò che anche questo recente CD dell'etichetta sia di notevole personalità e originalità. Il lavoro è opera di Francesco D'Errico -pianista napoletano quasi cinquantenne ...

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Mats/Morgan Band: Live

by Glenn Astarita
December 7, 2011

In their teens, drummer Morgan Ågren and keyboardist Mats Öberg were invited to perform with Frank Zappa and, as the story goes, the Swedish duo formed this phenomenal ensemble that exercised a jaw-dropping mode of execution within the progressive-rock schema, amid some Zappa and jazz-centric influences. Revered for its otherworldly approach to the genre and superior ...

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Komado-No-Oh: Tension

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 7, 2011

Bizzarro, originale, intrigante, molto intrigante. Potremmo definire così Tension, la seconda prova discografica del duo Komado-No-Oh, ossia Koh (pupilla di Satoko Fujii) a piano e voce, Masahiro Uemura (Otomo Yoshihide, Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra tra gli altri) alla batteria. Ma Tension è anche l'album di contrasti, e che contrasti! Non solo tra brano e brano ma anche ...