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Hank Crawford: Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
by Dan Bilawsky
Saxophonist Hank Crawford will forever be linked to his one-time employer, the great Ray Charles, in the minds of R&B lovers, but soul-fusion fans are likely to remember him for a string of albums he recorded on the Kudu label in the 1970s. Crawford and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine proved to be the two pillars of ...
Tonbruket: Dig It to the End
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dan Berglund, impostosi come contrabbassista del trio EST, è qui alla testa di un quartetto svedese giunto al secondo lavoro, a cavallo tra più stili, ma anche piuttosto originale e interessante. La musica dei Tonbruket si muove infatti su atmosfere estremamente variate, fortemente marcate dal rock, con momenti anche di grande intensità e dinamismo - come ...
New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News
by Andrew J. Sammut
The New World Jazz Composers Octet thrives on the old school idea of jazz composition as conduit to great jazz performance, and its third album, Breaking News, puts theory to practice from the outset with Matthew Nicholl's “Poco Picasso." The jutting melodic angles and tightly orchestrated front line arrest on their own merits, while also spurring ...
Fourth Page: Blind Horizons
by John Eyles
Blind Horizons is the second album of 2011 from Fourth Page, the rapid follow-up to its debut, Along the Weak Rope, released on Forwind in May. Fourth Page consists of vocalist and guitarist Charlie Beresford, pianist Carolyn Hume, bassist Peter Marsh and drummer Paul May. There are long-standing links between Hume, May and Marsh. May has ...
Tom Harrell: The Time of the Sun
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il disco si apre con tre suoni prodotti dal campo magnetico dell'atmosfera più esterna del sole e registrati, i primi due, presso la University of Sheffield, il terzo presso la Stanford University. Poca cosa in termini di minutaggio (non più di quindici secondi) ma sorprendente dal punto di vista della ricerca scientifica. Come sorprendente poteva essere ...
FAB Trio: History of Jazz in Reverse
by Jerry D'Souza
It is a travesty of fate--and of the American jazz establishment--that violinist Billy Bang never received the recognition he merited. Hosannas have been sung to him, many of them after he died, but the fact remains that he was kept on the periphery despite an admirable body of work. His virtuosity can be witnessed on recordings ...
Gianluca Petrella - Paolino Dalla Porta - Fabrizio Sferra: Il Bagno Turco
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il bagno turco è un disco dalle sonorità scure, dagli andamenti sommessi e dalle linee stilistiche difficilmente identificabili. Questo perché al centro dei discorsi melodici e dello svolgimento tematico c'è quasi esclusivamente il trombone di Gianluca Petrella, più che mai pervaso da una sana visionarietà espressiva, sempre tesa a intraprendere traiettorie difficili e strettoie musicali dalle ...
Giovanni Falzone - Bruno Angelini "If Duo": Songs
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ogni disco di Giovanni Falzone si caratterizza sia per l'alta qualità artistica che per una spiccata progettualità. Nove e tutte originali sono le composizioni di questo suo nuovo progetto, piccoli affreschi articolati per contrasti superbamente congegnati. Il pianista Bruno Angelini si rivela ancora una volta un partner ideale per un percorso arduo dove l'interplay gioca un ...
Albert Ayler: Stockholm, Berlin 1966
by Glenn Astarita
Indeed, a desert island quality album reissued with a digital uplift of celebrated tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler's 1966 Stockholm and Berlin concerts, where the artist resides in a very special musical space unlike any other. With his infamous slants on America's historical affinity for march music, Ayler's colossal presence and coiling use of vibrato ...
Ted Rosenthal Trio: Out of This World
by Dan McClenaghan
2011 has been productive year in the recording realm for pianist Ted Rosenthal. His contribution to The Westchester Jazz Orchestra's superb Maiden Voyage Suite (WJO Records) helped elevate the re-imaging of pianist Herbie Hancock's classic Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, 1965) to the highest level of big band artistry. With Out of this World, Rosenthal slips back ...
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