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Alon Nechushtan: Dark Forces
by Dan Bilawsky
The idea of placing a variety of daring instrumental personalities within different electronic-based sound collage nightmares is bold but, ultimately, hard to classify or grab onto. Dark Forces can't truly be called electronic music since the whole point of the music surrounds the integration of electronic and human elements, and it's hard to view it as ...
Accordo dei contrari: Kublai
by AAJ Italy Staff
Archiviati da tempo i fasti del periodo d'oro, il genere del progressive-rock (o, più brevemente, prog) è diventato oggi molto elitario, tenuto in vita dalla passione di fans e musicisti che continuano a trovare ispirazione nell'opera dei tanti che li hanno preceduti. Anche l'Italia vanta una ricca tradizione nel settore, e ancora oggi non mancano gruppi ...
Pascal Niggenkemper: Upcoming Hurricane
by AAJ Italy Staff
Upcoming Hurricane, l'uragano che sta arrivando, è quello che prende forma dalle dita, dalle mani e dai piedi di Pascal Niggenkemper, Simon Nabatov, Gerald Clever. “Pusteblume" è l'attesa. L'archetto manovrato da Niggenkemper sfrega le corde del contrabbasso, stridori e dissonanze vagano per l'aria alimentando una tensione sottile ma palpabile. Nubi minacciose all'orizzonte, la calma apparente, i ...
Ray Anderson / Han Bennink / Christy Doran: ABD
by Troy Collins
The international collaborative trio of American trombonist Ray Anderson, Dutch drummer Han Bennink and Irish guitarist Christy Doran recorded two adventurous albums for hatART in the mid-1990s; Azurety was released in 1994 and Cheer Up arrived the following year. ABD collects the strongest tracks from these two sessions onto one disc, providing a valuable opportunity to ...
Brad Shepik Quartet: Across the Way
by AAJ Italy Staff
Across the Way è il primo lavoro discografico del nuovo quartetto di Brad Shepik, con Tom Beckham al vibrafono e Mark Guiliana alla batteria, che con lui hanno già condiviso la militanza in alcuni dei gruppi di Dave Douglas. Completa la formazione Jorge Roeder al basso, componente anche del più recente quartetto di Gary Burton. Se ...
Joan Stiles: Three Musicians
by Dan Bilawsky
On the surface, Three Musicians is a smart collection of performances from a witty threesome, but closer observation reveals deep Cubist intent. In referencing one of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces, pianist Joan Stiles touches on a style of art that rarely finds an overt entrance into jazz, creating a layered, collage ideology within the very fabric of ...
Thomas Heberer's Clarino: Klippe
by AAJ Italy Staff
Rimanda al glorioso (per quanto magari sconosciuto ai più) trio KoKoKo (Koglmann/Koltermann/Koch), che negli anni Ottanta propose un identico organico (magari rifacendosi a sua volta a certi esperimenti di Giuffre e Shorty Rogers di trent'anni prima), questo ensemble capitanato dal trombettista tedesco Thomas Heberer. Analogo, oltre al particolarissimo impasto timbrico, spiccatamente cameristico, è l'approccio alla materia ...
Darius Jones: Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
by John Sharpe
In Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009), alto saxophonist Darius Jones scored a stunning debut that placed the newcomer firmly on the avant jazz map. Since then, the reedman has put himself about town, tasting artistic success with drummers William Hooker, and Mike Pride's ensembles, collective Little Women and in duet with ...
Damian: Early Autumn
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arrivato al terzo CD Damian continua la sua rilettura del Great American Songbook con alle spalle una big band molto professionale ed il grande Brian Lynch in primo piano. Con la sua intonazione perfetta fa rivivere classici resi famosi da Frank Sinatra e altri grandi del mestiere, in un periodo in cui la professionalità dei cantanti ...
Ibrahim Maalouf: Diagnostic
by Hrayr Attarian
Much like his uncle, the celebrated author Amin Maalouf--who brought Levantine raconteur to the western novel--trumpeter/composer Ibrahim Maalouf infuses his jazz with Middle Eastern musicality. On Diagnostic--the last installment of a trilogy--Maalouf actually draws from many different sources to create a unique sound that remains definitely in the jazz tradition. The all-woman, Franco-Brazilian ...
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