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Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto: Current

Read "Current" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
November 22, 2011

Three-time Latin Grammy-nominee Jovino Santos Neto's Current features all new originals covering a range of Brazilian styles from contemporary and choro to baiao, samba and others. Santos Neto has toured the world, performing with mentor Hermeto Pascoal, Bill Frisell, and Paquito D'Rivera, among others, and his long discography has established him as one of today's top ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

Read "Maiden Voyage Suite" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 22, 2011

Fiore all'occhiello dell'odierno jazz orchestrale di New York, la Westchester Jazz Orchestra prova a rivisitare il classico album Maiden Voyage di Herbie Hancock. Questi arrangiamenti per big band tessono nuove trame intorno ad alcune composizioni divenute oggi fondamentali nel repertorio jazz. Aggiornate soluzioni orchestrali rileggono il modello con atmosfere swinganti ed efficaci, e con pregevoli assoli ...

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Kenny Dorham: Una Mas

by Greg Simmons
November 22, 2011

Trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas was one of 1963's best records. The thought of hearing it reissued on ultra-high quality vinyl by the good folks at Music Matters should make jazz heads swoon. With its melding of hard-bop, bossa nova, and the blues, Una Mas is a prime example of the memorable vamps that Blue Note ...

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Carlo Actis Dato - Enzo Rocco: Domestic Rehearsals

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 22, 2011

L'efficacia della combinazione timbrica tra sax baritono e chitarra elettrica è una bella sorpresa. La metronomica “Ode to Henry Chinaski," che evoca sia “Cry Me a River" che una punteggiatura monkiana, permette ad Actis Dato e Rocco di esprimere a fondo le risorse foniche, e poi anche di fraseggio, dei due strumenti. Actis Dato e Rocco ...

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Falsopiano: 8888

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 21, 2011

Due pianoforti, un contrabbasso e una batteria. Nove improvvisazioni collettive, quattro brani originali, più due firmati Ligeti, uno di Shoenberg, e uno di Ornette Coleman. Ossia quando può succedere di tutto. Lo spazio e il silenzio. Note e suoni che oltrepassano le convenzioni, rifuggono il già noto, tracciano traiettorie ardite, creano armonie impossibili. I pianoforti di ...

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Kevin Hays: Variations

Read "Variations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 21, 2011

When famed jazz scholar Gunther Schuller first coined the term “Thematic Improvisation," he wasn't introducing a new concept so much as shedding light on how jazz artists had come to use the age-old “Theme And Variations" format in their own sweet way. While nobody would argue that grand compositional gestures or outré improvisations from a master ...

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Trio 3 + Geri Allen: Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York)

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 21, 2011

Con Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York) quattro figure storiche del jazz newyorchese quali come Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille ed Oliver Lake (ossia il Trio 3) tornano ad essere affiancati dalla pianista Geri Allen per celebrare la figura di Mary Lou Williams, una tra le prime donne affermatasi nel mondo del jazz alla ...

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Wilson Huggett Project: Field of Hope

Read "Field of Hope" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 21, 2011

Five years after Max Roach Park (Jazz Direct, 2006), UK/South African bassist Dan Wilson and drummer Mark Huggett return with a multinational, multidimensional offering that continues and improves upon the strong suits of their earlier disc.On the one hand, there is a focus on establishing moods, often undergirded by deep and pleasing grooves; this ...

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Club D’Elf: Electric Moroccoland / So Below

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 21, 2011

I dischi dei mitici Club D'Elf sono piuttosto rari ed è un vero piacere scoprire che questa loro recentissima uscita discografica ci propone ben due album in un colpo solo. Non è un doppio album ma sono proprio due album apparigliati in un unica confezione. Fra l'uno e l'altro le intenzioni sono chiaramente diverse, l'organico pure. ...

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Nat Birchall: Sacred Dimension

Read "Sacred Dimension" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
November 21, 2011

Just outside the Victorian architectural splendor of the city of Manchester lies some of England's most beautiful countryside. The area is home to a small group of musicians whose contemporary take on the music of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, among others, is creating some of the finest and most spiritual sounds around. Trumpeter Matthew Halsall, ...