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Nick Ruffini: Pressin' On
by Dan McClenaghan
The Hammond B-3 organ blew into jazz in a big way in the 1950s and 1960s. Employed mostly in small group settings--trios and quartets--the soulful, urban, deep groove music became hugely popular at that time, thanks to organists Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff, as well as guitarists Wes Montgomery and Grant Green, among many others. The ...
Friedman & Liebezeit: Secret Rhythms 4
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nuovo capitolo della collaborazione tra Burnt Friedman e il batterista storico dei Can, Jaki Liebezeit: la formula instaurata ormai da un decennio [non a caso questo è il volume numero 4 della serie Secret Rhythms] regge e si rivela anche particolarmente flessibile, pur mantenendo caratteristiche di base ben identificabili. L'incontro infatti tra un drumming così colorato ...
Oz Noy: Twisted Blues: Volume 1
by Ian Patterson
That guitarist Oz Noy was voted “Best Newcomer" by Guitar Player Magazine in 2008 underlines how curiously under the radar he seems to fly. By then, Noy had already played with New York's finest musicians in the dozen preceding years since arriving from Israel, and had cut three impressive CDs as leader. His fourth release, Schizophrenic ...
Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe
by John Kelman
Plenty has happened since Enrico Rava last recorded with his working quintet. All but the piano chair remained stable between Easy Living (ECM, 2004) and The Words And The Days (ECM, 2007), but trombonist Gianluca Petrella is the sole remnant on Tribe. “Change is good," they say, and if the rest of Rava's quintet consists of ...
Jacob 2-2: Fantasiarexia
by Lawrence Peryer
After lighting up the indie blogosphere at the beginning of 2011 with his six-song EP, Cabazon (Moodgadget Records), DJ and producer Jacob 2-2 is back with Fantasiarexia, featuring more of his 1980s-derived electro funk. Drawing from a well of inspiration that includes not only Herbie Hancock, Jean Michel Jarre and Windham Hill but also film, TV ...
Mathias Eick: Skala
by AAJ Italy Staff
La storia e l'estetica della ECM sono ben più vaste e complesse di quanto una riduttiva percezione possa evidenziare. Non è certo questa l'occasione per affrontare un tema così impegnativo, ma se dovessi inquadrare questo CD nella produzione dell'etichetta tedesca, lo identificherei come un ritorno ad una delle matrici originarie, come una rivisitazione attualizzata di quell'approccio ...
Rich Corpolongo: Get Happy
by AAJ Italy Staff
"La mia filosofia - ha detto Corpolongo in un'intervista ad AAJ Italia - è che se suoni o scrivi musica di valore, prima o poi la cosa sarà notata, a dispetto di quelli che la svalorizzano o del tempo che sarà necessario per apprezzarla". All'età di 70 anni, il sassofonista di Chicago giunge a incidere il ...
Colin Stranahan / Glenn Zaleski / Rick Rosato: Anticipation
by Bruce Lindsay
Colin Stranahan, Glenn Zaleski and Rick Rosato describe their trio as a “leaderless" jazz ensemble--a democratic aggregation. Anticipation is the band's first album, and provides plenty of evidence that such a democratic approach to jazz can have clear musical rewards. The trio was the idea of Montreal bassist Rosato, drummer Stranahan--probably the best ...
Nils Okland - Sigbjorn Apeland: Lysoen. Hommage à Ole Bull
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lysoen. Hommage à Ole Bull è un lavoro tutto interno alla tradizione norvegese che piacerà senz'altro a coloro che ne sono appassionati. Lysoen è, infatti, il nome di un'isola norvegese, ma anche quello di una stupenda villa residenza del violinista e virtuoso Ole Bull, sua fonte di ispirazione per numerose composizioni e sede nella quale sono ...
Ola Kvernberg: Liarbird
by John Kelman
It may have seemed that recruiting American saxophonist Joshua Redman for the live premiere of Liarbird--a joint commission by the Trondheim and Molde Jazz Festivals in Norway--was the musical equivalent of a ringer in sports. But it wasn't long into Ola Kvernberg's ambitious Molde Jazz 2010 performance, as the violinist launched into the first of many ...
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