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The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Forever Lasting - Live in Tokyo
by Edward Blanco
The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, the New York big band founded in 1966, loved to tour Japan resulting in its popular 1974 release of Live In Tokyo (Denon). Continuing the tradition of playing Monday nights at New York's Village Vanguard, as well as performing in Japan, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra--as the Thad Jones / ...
5 After 4: Rome In A Day
by Dave Wayne
Rome In A Day is the sixth recording by 5 After 4. Led by drummer/composer Vito Rezza, the Canadian jazz-fusion quartet has an appealingly varied approach. Despite some 21st Century touches, such as Rezza's playful rhythmic displacements during its theme, “10,000 Days" has a down-home funky soul sound that recalls the Crusaders circa Chain Reaction (MCA, ...
Michael Kaeshammer: Kaeshammer
by C. Michael Bailey
It doesn't take a Charles Darwin to realize that the true evolutionary inheritors of Frank Sinatra's and Peggy Lee's brand of “popular" music were Elton John and Billy Joel, and not Harry Connick, Jr. or Michael Buble, the latter being more keepers of the flame than the former innovators. Had popular music not dissembled into the ...
Collettivo Franco Ferguson: Amazing Recordings
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per spiegare in cosa consiste l'iniziativa di Amazing Recordings è il caso di riportare testualmente parte del comunicato stampa diramato da Franco Ferguson, che è «un collettivo formato da musicisti che condividono un approccio critico, creativo e non ortodosso al jazz ed alle musiche ad esso correlate. Formatosi circa tre anni fa il collettivo ha raccolto ...
The Twenty 20s: Uh! Oh!
by Dan McClenaghan
Are these people nuts? That could be the question when the title tune to the The Twenty 20's Uh! Oh! begins to spin. It sounds like surf guitar legend Dick Dale found a cheeky--but really good--girl singer influenced by Alvin and the Chipmunks, then recruited Phil Spector to produce--on a lower budget than the famed producer ...
Evgeny Masloboev - Anastasia Masloboeva: Russian Folksongs in the Key of Winter
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo un primo album dedicato al Rhythm (2008) e un secondo alla Sadness (2010), eccoci al terzo capitolo, quello “invernale," sempre per la Leo Records, dei Russian Folksongs in the Key del duo siberiano. Il deus ex machina del progetto (complessivo) è sicuramente Evgeny Masloboev, oltre tutto impegnato (ovviamente con generose dosi di sovraincisione) su un'autentica ...
Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 2
by Glenn Astarita
Marc Ducret is among the elite group of modern era guitarists who make a significant imprint on roads previously navigated, with a penchant for exploring bewildering musical vistas. His unique instrumental voice has been a source of wonderment for several decades. On his follow-up to Tower Vol. 1 (Ayler, 2011), featuring a horns-based quintet, Ducret realigns ...
James Carter Organ Trio: At The Crossroads
by Troy Collins
A ubiquitous presence in the mid-1990s, saxophonist James Carter faded from the limelight when Atlantic Records disbanded its jazz department in 2000. Undeterred, Carter forged ahead, eventually signing with EmArcy Records in 2008, turning misfortune into opportunity. In addition to releasing Carter's engaging Present Tense the same year, the label also issued his long-awaited premiere of ...
Sophie Duner & The Callino Quartet: The City of My Soul
by AAJ Italy Staff
Avevamo già incontrato Sophie Duner su queste pagine presentando The City of My Dreams. Una voce duttile e incantevole, doti di interprete sopra la media, una scrittura incisiva, ironica, variegata, a volte minimalista a volte surrealista, un quartetto d'archi ad accompagnare la cantante di origine svedese nei meandri della città dei sogni, musicali e non. Due ...
Alexis Parsons: Alexis Parsons
by Dan Bilawsky
Chicago-born/New York-bred vocalist Alexis Parsons has often worked with trios, but pares down the instrumental backing for this self-titled release. Alexis Parsons presents eight numbers that pair the singer with piano ace Frank Kimbrough, whose classy, top-shelf accompaniment, combined with Parsons' lovely and occasionally languorous vocals, bring a pleasant, sleepy quality to this music.
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