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Gianmaria Testa: Vitamia

Read "Vitamia" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 18, 2011

Nuovo e riconoscibile, fine nei riferimenti e (persino) pop - talvolta - nella forma, Gianmaria Testa torna con un album che mette d'accordo critica e pubblico. Vitamia, lavoro in studio il cui titolo pare quasi una resa implicita e limpida alla complessità e alla molteplicità dei temi trattati nelle undici tracce del CD, si ascolta d'un ...

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Ernie Watts Quartet: Oasis

by Ian Patterson
November 18, 2011

Setting up Flying Dolphin Records in 2004 has given tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts wings. After 35 years calling on an ever-changing array of some of the greatest names in jazz to play on his records, Watts has now settled into two quartets: his American and European groups. The continuity of these ensembles and the complete artistic ...

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The Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk

Read "Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 18, 2011

If two creative star trajectories were ever meant to cross, it was those of pianist/composer Thelonious Monk and the Microscopic Septet. Sure, Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron had a pretty good Monk gig going, and Sphere was a great tribute band lead by Monk's longtime tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse (followed by Gary Bartz). But, the Micros...here ...

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Falkner Evans: The Point of the Moon

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by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 18, 2011

Pianist Falkner Evans is a distant relative of the great American novelist William Faulkner, by the same obscure Southern logic by which Al Gore and Gore Vidal are related. He is also a former pianist for the tight Western swing outfit Asleep at the Wheel and leader of an acclaimed piano trio.Evans's famed ancestor ...

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Vein: Plays Porgy & Bess

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 18, 2011

Benchè di solida formazione classica, i musicisti che formano il trio Vein rileggono Gershwin con una buona dose di irriverenza. Affrontando compositori di riferimento si rischia di cadere nel fatuo manierismo, ma dall'iniziale “Overture" si capisce chiaramente che non è così per i Vein. L'abilità tecnica è posta al servizio di un felice interplay finalizzato ad ...

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Silvia Bennett: Sonrie

by Edward Blanco
November 18, 2011

A specialist in interpreting music from The Great American Songbook, Grammy-nominated vocalist Silvia Bennett once again delivers an album of classic standards from the past with one major twist: she sings the lyrics in Spanish. Sonrie (Smile) is a Spanish-language follow-up to Smile (Out of Sight Music, 2010), presenting a largely different repertoire that also reprises ...

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Eco d'alberi: Eco d'alberi

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 17, 2011

Nel mesto e ripiegato panorama del jazz italiano, sono un'autentica rarità i gruppi che possono contare su una solida reputazione internazionale. Il quartetto Marraffa-Braida-Borghini-Spera è uno dei pochi di matrice schiettamente “radical" a muoversi con profitto e costanza oltre le mura di casa nostra. La band è stata la prima composta da soli italiani a esibirsi ...

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Pippa Hayes: It Had to Be You

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by C. Michael Bailey
November 17, 2011

Australian vocalist Pippa Hayes is foremost an educator, but that old saw about “those who can...do and those who can't...teach" does not apply. Hayes is perfectly comfortable performing, with an infectious method and effortless grace. She has a coy and coquettish voice, lazy and sensual as Quaaludes and honey (in places, almost too much so). However, ...

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Julia Kent: Green and Grey

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 17, 2011

La crudele logica della comunicazione musicale vuole che Julia Kent sia sempre etichettata come “lavioloncellistadiAntony&TheJohnsons," anche se si tratta di un'artista che ha - oltre a una propria personalità - anche altre collaborazioni di peso alle spalle. Il suo percorso solistico, con lo strumento a dialogare con elettronica e field recordings in una sorta di confronto ...

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Yotam: Brasil

by Dan Bilawsky
November 17, 2011

A single letter separates the English and Portuguese spellings of the world's fifth largest country, but that letter distinguishes between an outsider's view and the way that an insider takes it all in. Brazil is for tourists, but Brasil is for those initiated in the musical ways of this South American land of wonder. While Israeli ...