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Sabir Mateen - Silvia Bolognesi: Holidays in Siena
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'incontro tra contrabbasso e sax di potrebbe definire un topos che si è celebrato in modo più o meno ricorrente nella storia del jazz moderno. Un tipo di formazione con molti limiti forse, ma che Braxton, Shepp, Holland e altri hanno affrontato alla ricerca di una gamma immensa di geometrie possibili. In questo caso è tra ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day II
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se vi piace farvi cullare da dolci melodie sognando tramonti da sogno e natura incontaminata. Se ogni tanto vi intrigano atmosfere misteriose, un leggero brivido che vi corre lungo la schiena nell'inoltrarvi in una foresta sconosciuta e silenziosa. Se amate le trame semplici, immediate in superficie ma percorse da deviazioni e slittamenti interni, allora Canada Day ...
Aki Takase/ Han Bennink: Two For Two
by Mark Corroto
The pairing of these two international jazz musicians--Japanese pianist Aki Takase and Dutch drummer Han Bennink--for an hour's worth of duets yields a worthy tribute to both Thelonious Monk and free jazz. The pair's Two For Two might have been better inscribed as Instant Monk.Although Takase and Bennink only cover two Monk compositions, reed ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Legacy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sei trombe, sei sax, quattro tromboni più la ritmica. È la formula di un ensemble di all stars, guidato dal magnifico compositore ed arrangiatore Gerald Wilson. Oggi novantatreeene, Wilson rimane il classico “musician's musician," amato da diverse generazioni di colleghi e addetti ai lavori ma poco noto al grande pubblico. Un autentico fuoriclasse che ha già ...
Andre Goudbeek / Le Quan Ninh / Peter Jacquemyn: Uwaga
by Jerry D'Souza
The Alchemia, in Krakow, Poland, has long been the venue for a series of free jazz and improvised music concerts. The lineup never flags for want of extraordinary musicians, and time has witnessed the likes of Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, William Parker and Peter Brötzmann on that stage. Alto saxophonist André Goudbeek, bassist Peter Jacquemyn and ...
Agogic: Agogic
by AAJ Italy Staff
Attenzione a Seattle. Qualcosa si muove nella fu capitale del grunge. Merito di Cuong Vu, che dalla fine del 2006 ha rimesso radici nella città dalla quale era partito alla volta di New York, passando per Boston, a inizio anni Novanta. Il ritorno a casa del trombettista di origini vietnamite, complice la cattedra offertagli dalla University ...
Sebastian Liedke Trio: Zeitenwende
by Karl Ackermann
This second release from Germany's Sebastian Liedke Trio is initially so unassuming that it is only on repeated listens that the music unfolds in understated complexity. Within the treatments of its six original tunes, the contemplative nature of the music is infused with a bristling energy. Roughly translating to a “turning point," Zeitenwende is, indeed, that ...
Gianluigi Trovesi / Gianni Coscia: Frere Jacques - Round About Offenbach
by John Kelman
Once again, more than half a decade has gone by since clarinetist GIanluigi Trovesi and accordionist Gianni Coscia last recorded. Round About Weill (ECM, 2005) represented a shift away from the broader compositional purview of In cerca di cibo (ECM, 2000), instead focusing more monolithically--albeit with the improvisational élan which has defined this partnership from its ...
Pat Martino: Undeniable
by Glenn Astarita
Guitar virtuoso Pat Martino's long awaited album, recorded live at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., serves as a homecoming of sorts, since he began his career within the classic jazz-organ combo format. As a leader, Undeniable is Martino's first album since the 2006 Blue Note Records Wes Montgomery tribute, Remember. Martino's quartet parlays a ...
Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band: Hoodoo Man Blues
by Nic Jones
Being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame could, in the overall scheme of things, mean everything or nothing, considering that Hoodoo Man Blues is as powerful an example of the Chicago Blues as has ever been captured on record. Singer/harmonicist Junior Wells was one of those surprisingly rare individuals who knew how ...
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