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International Troubadours: Sacred Ground

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 23, 2011

Chi erano i trovatori? Più o meno gli antesignani medievali degli attuali cantautori. Chi sono, invece, gli International Troubadours? Un open duo, tutto italiano (Alberto Turra e Davide Tedesco) che si è già messo in evidenza con il disco d'esordio Perché il vento non tace. Non suonano con la viella. Non cantano le loro liriche in ...

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Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade: Brain Dance

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 23, 2011

Il bassista Carlo De Rosa non è granchè noto da noi, ma a New York gode di un certo credito tra la comunità musicale. Come ambasciatore del jazz americano ha girato il mondo e si è costruito un'esperienza notevole che gli permette di maneggiare diversi stilemi della musica d'oggi. Il suo è un caso emblematico di ...

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Boom Box: Jazz

by John Sharpe
September 23, 2011

Some might think there an element of presumption in titling a CD Jazz, but German saxophonist Thomas Borgmann gets right to the essence in this set by his Boom Box trio, with drummer Willi Kellers and bassist Akira Ando: spontaneous three-way conversations which swing. Borgmann has a back story that takes in iconoclasts such as saxophonists ...

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Matthew Shipp: Duos With Mat Maneri & Joe Morris

Read "Duos With Mat Maneri & Joe Morris" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 22, 2011

To Matthew Shipp, the piano is a vast kaleidoscopic landscape that will always remain tonally uncharted. Sometimes it is daunting to traverse; at other times it is familiar. When faced with the prospect of the former, Shipp's dynamic and pianistic attack is quite different. He is aroused by the challenge of a pursuit flushed with mysterious ...

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WorldService Project: Relentless

Read "Relentless" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
September 22, 2011

Formed in 2009, and winner of the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award in 2010, WorldService Project rapidly established itself as a popular live act in London and across Britain, before branching out onto continental Europe with gigs in Norway and Germany. Its debut, Relentless, demonstrates that this is a band on a roll.The quintet has ...

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Giovanni Mazzarino: In Sicilia una suite

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 22, 2011

Intime e radiose melodie si confrontano con fotografie notturne di drammatica profondità, nel progetto discografico di Giovanni Mazzarino dedicato alla sua regione. Il primo aspetto è curato dal pianista in collaborazione con Max Ionata ai sassofoni, Rosario Bonaccorso al contrabbasso e Nicola Angelucci alla batteria, il secondo è prerogativa di Pino Ninfa. In Francia, Guy Le ...

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Steve Lacy Five: Blinks...Zurich Live 1983

Read "Blinks...Zurich Live 1983" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 22, 2011

Blinks...Zurich Live 1983 is one of those ageless albums that accentuates the unparalleled synchronicity of iconic soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's Five, captured live at a 1983 concert in Zurich, Switzerland. Packed with the leader's linear and concise theme constructions, the band reconfigures and rewinds many of the primary melodies amid moments of energized minimalism and lyrical ...

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Josep Maria Farràs & Ignasi Terraza Trio: Plaça Vella

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 22, 2011

Notizie dalla Catalogna, da parte di due musicisti che rappresentano diverse generazioni di artisti locali, uniti da una solida conoscenza del linguaggio nel jazz moderno trova lo spunto per un'evoluzione continua. Farràs è un trombettista che deve aver preso l'avvio con Armstrong (gustoso il tributo a chiusura del disco) per poi volgersi a Miles in termini ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day II

Read "Canada Day II" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 22, 2011

Are life events audible in music? They would certainly seem to be in the case of Canadian drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt. Half the tracks on Canada Day II were composed around the time of his son's birth. One track is dedicated to his youngster, and the genesis of two others was related to public schools, so Eisenstadt ...

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Gary Todd, Dave Solomon, John Russell, Nigel Coombes, Steve Beresford: Teatime

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 22, 2011

"Non puoi startene sempre in attesa di un compositore che scriva la musica che desideri suonare". Questa frase provocatoria appariva su manifesti e volantini che nel gennaio 1970 a Londra pubblicizzavano un concerto della Music Improvisation Company alla Purcell Room. Il collettivo era formato da Derek Baley, Evan Parker, Jamie Muir, Hugh Davies, Ron Geeson, Tony ...