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Fabian Almazan: Personalities

Read "Personalities" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
September 29, 2011

Fabian Almazan began creating some buzz with his sparkling piano chops in trumpeter Terence Blanchard's group on Choices (Concord Music Group, 2009). Originally from Havana, Cuba, Almazan is not only one of the young rising stars in New York, but is also classically trained and has received a number of awards as a composer in film, ...

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Claudio Lodati - Maurizio Brunod: Reunion

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2011

Maurizio Brunod è stato allievo di Claudio Lodati e in qualche modo, in questo ennesimo disco in duo (il loro terzo per la precisione) i due rafforzano una partnership nata sotto il segno della didattica per poi spostarsi in area progettuale vera e propria. Lodati, torinese del 1954, si dedica in questo album alla chitarra elettrica ...

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Wooden Shjips: West

by Glenn Astarita
September 29, 2011

Derived from America's western mythology and romanticism, the San Francisco-based Wooden Shjips incorporates vintage psychedelics, propelled by punchy back-beats amid Sonic Youth-style crunch chords and doses of German space-rock. However, the musicians do seed familiar turf into an identifiable group-focused line of operations. Perhaps a throwback to the '70s, due to Farfisa organ sounds and dreamy ...

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Fabian M. Mueller: Monolog

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2011

Il pianista svizzero Fabian M. Mueller è una piccola scoperta. Compositore, jazzista, ha al suo attivo numerosi CD e fa parte di numerose formazioni - l'FM Trio, l'Augur Ensemble, il quartetto puramente jazz Jalazz, il gruppo nu jazz Box - e ha una parte da solista nel progetto audio-visivo “aPart of". Monolog è il suo debutto ...

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Mike Clark: Blueprints of Jazz Vol.1

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2011

Ne è passata di acqua sotto i ponti da quando Herbie Hancock lanciava un giovane batterista, Mike Clarck, su Thrust, il famoso disco degli Heandhunters. Dopo l'inaspettata notorietà (e un assolo, quello contenuto in “Actual Proof," da cui tanti batteristi e DJ hanno attinto) Mike Clarck ha continuato ad incidere fusion (anche con il bassista di ...

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Rob Brown: Unknown Skies

Read "Unknown Skies" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 28, 2011

Each year alto saxophonist Rob Brown brings a project to NYC's annual Vision Festival. Among the most raw and compelling was this stellar trio, featuring pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Nasheet Waits, which graced the 2009 gathering but had gone unrecorded, until now. Fortunately the voguish Paris-based Rogue Art imprint has issued a fine live recording ...

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Inzinzac: Inzinzac

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2011

"Maneggiare con cura!". Una scritta che andrebbe a meraviglia sul frontespizio di Inzinzac. Perché il trio in questione è in grado di scatenare un'onda d'urto devastante per l'ascoltatore incauto. Alban Bailly, il chitarrista leader e autore di tutte le composizioni, si è trasferito nel 2005 dalla natia Francia in quel di Philadelphia assorbendo stilisticamente lo spirito ...

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Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes

Read "Chance Episodes" reviewed by Andrew J. Sammut

by Andrew J. Sammut
September 28, 2011

Saxophonist/composer Matt Steckler mentions “remembering things anew," when describing the music he wrote for Chance Episodes. Dead Cat Bounce certainly “remembers" several influences on its fourth album, yet its members recollect via their own unique voices. The Boston-based sextet munches on several speeds of hardboiled swing for “Food Blogger," with calypso beats sandwiched ...

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Jackie O Motherfucker: Earth Sound System

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2011

"In the Willows," “Bring It to Me e “Dedication," sono musica immersa nella sonnolenza, nella fase che precede l'inizio di un sogno o nella fase del risveglio. Tre canzoni dalle macerie dei Velvet Underground, composte con soli tre/quattro accordi di chitarra, avvolte per fortuna in un “sistema sonoro" più ampio con le ballate elettriche di “Raga ...

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Anthony Strong: Delovely

Read "Delovely" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 28, 2011

From beat one of this genuinely swinging recording, London-based singer-pianist Anthony Strong and his band nail just the right groove to grab the attention and get heads nodding and toes tapping. Delovely--his second recording, following 2009's self-released Guaranteed!--is a five-song mini-album of mainstream standards, distinguished by Strong's warm and romantic vocal and some fine musicianship from ...