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Otomo Yoshihide Quartet: Allurements of the Ellipsoid
by Mark Corroto
The minimalist improvisation of Otomo Yoshihide's Quartet, assembled for the 2005 Donaueschinger Music Festival, delivers a thoroughly abstract sound that could never be described as obtuse. This coming together of heavyweight improvisers yielded two discs--one, a studio session and the other, a live performance--recorded over three days. Those familiar with the genius of Yoshihide's ...
The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?
by Troy Collins
Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...
Steve Lacy: School Days (1960/3)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Continua la storia editoriale di School Days, la raccolta monkiana di Steve Lacy e Roswell Rudd, incisa dal vivo a New York nel 1963 e pubblicata per la prima volta dalla Emanem nel 1975. Dopo due riedizioni a cura della Hat Hut, Martin Davidson della Emanem torna a quei notevoli testi sonori compilando la lista dei ...
Jonathan Smith Quintet: En Route
by Dan Bilawsky
Portland-based guitarist Jonathan Smith spent three decades putting out fires, but he lets things burn on En Route. The retired firefighter-cum-jazz guitarist assembled a crew of musicians with whom he'd performed in live settings at various times, to record a debut album which, as Smith himself says, “delivers solid and accessible jazz." Smith's music isn't made ...
Enrico Bracco: Unresolved
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quello firmato da Enrico Bracco non è un album di semplicissima risoluzione. E in effetti sia il titolo Unresolved che l'immagine di copertina, con un primo piano sul cubo di Rubik lontano dal compimento, davano segnali inequivocabili. Presagi che trovano il loro motivo d'esistenza nelle nove tracce proposte, tutti originali firmati dal leader tranne il classicissimo ...
Daunik Lazro: Some Other Zongs
by Mark Corroto
To designate saxophonist Daunik Lazro the French Joe McPhee--or, perhaps, the French equivalent to Evan Parker--is to illustrate not only the proficiency he has with his instrument, but his formidable improvisational skills. For his second solo release, Some Other Zongs, he sticks solely to the finicky and often blunt baritone saxophone--an instrument which, in the hands ...
Los Agentos: Afrykanski Snieg
by Jerry D'Souza
Out of Poland comes an eclectic band of musicians led by harmonicist Robert Lenert, wrapped in a kaleidoscope of sound and image. The name of the band is Spanish, but the players sing in English, French and Polish, and their music takes them through pop, jazz and R&B. A sprinkling of African rhythms and the array ...
Walt Weiskopf Quartet: Live at Koger Hall
by AAJ Italy Staff
Documenta un concerto del 2008, alla Koger Hall della University of South Carolina, questo Live firmato dal Walt Weiskopf Quartet. Un disco che si snoda attraverso otto brani di media durata, che riescono a catturare l'attenzione di chi li ascolta per la genuinità di un jazz suonato con la giusta grinta, su tempi medio veloci e ...
Gary Grant: Don't Hold Your Breath
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Years ago, The New Yorker did a profile article on the appropriately named New York studio lead trumpet legend, Bernie Glow, depicting the daily rigors of studio recording life in the now long-gone halcyon days of that city's recording scene. Today, Los Angeles studios reign supreme, the trumpeting envelope surpassed daily as registers are pushed, rhythms ...
Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quello firmato dalla percussionista Marilyn Mazur è il classico album ECM, curatissimo nel dettaglio timbrico, pieno di sfumature e sottintesi, carico di leggerezza espressiva d'irresistibile appeal. In primo piano la voce eterea, dolce e cristallina, di Josefine Cronholm, un tratto di profonda femminilità che determina l'atmosfera generale di Celestial Circle, lavoro composto da quattordici tracce capaci ...
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