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Ivo Perelman - Brian Willson: The Stream of Life
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il secondo disco che Ivo Perelman ha pubbicato con la Leo Records per celebrare il ventennio di carriera è un altro duo con un batterista, dopo The Apple in the Dark con Gerry Hemingway. Su The Stream of Life è Brian Willson a sedere dietro i tamburi. Si tratta di un'altra storia, sia perché qui Perelman ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi
by Mark F. Turner
About halfway through the aptly named “Killer," it becomes apparent that saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's Samdhi is up to something just a little different. Amid the track's impossible changes and blistering tempo, the saxophonist's alto undergoes acoustic-electric alterations that are processed through a laptop. Not that it was ever needed, but this embracing of technology, and other ...
D Quartet: Ossessa
by AAJ Italy Staff
Provengono dalla Sicilia e, al loro debutto discografico, si presentano con una formazione piuttosto atipica, perché contrabbasso e batteria sorreggono una front-line costituita da fisarmonica e armonica cromatica. Due strumenti dalle profonde radici popolari che, singolarmente protagonisti talvolta spericolati e pirotecnici, raramente condividono le luci della ribalta. D Quartet, questo il nome dell'ensemble, riesce con grande ...
Jan Johansson with Georg Riedel: in Hamburg
by Bruce Lindsay
Scandinavian jazz? It started with the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, didn't it? Well, no. It goes back many years further. As in Hamburg demonstrates emphatically, two early stars of Swedish jazz, pianist Jan Johansson and bassist Georg Riedel, could cut it with the best of the '60s jazz world, as instrumentalists and as composers. This beautiful album, ...
Stephan Crump with Rosetta Trio: Reclamation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sedici corde. Sei, quelle della chitarra elettrica di Jamie Fox (Dr. John, Blood, Sweat & Tears). Sei, quelle della chitarra acustica di Liberty Ellman (Henry Threadgill Zooid, Vijay Iyer). Quattro, quelle del contrabbasso di Stephan Crump (Steve Lehman, Joel Harrison). Sedici corde che danno origine al Rosetta Trio. Un album di debutto, Rosetta, entrato nella lista ...
Sam Crockatt Quartet: Flood Tide
by Bruce Lindsay
The Sam Crockatt Quartet's first album, Howeird (Loop Records, 2008), garnered much critical praise, and won Best Album in the 2009 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Its second album, Flood Tide, therefore, has a lot to live up to, so it's to this young quartet's credit that Flood Tide keeps up the early momentum, with a combination of ...
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: Cotonou Club
by AAJ Italy Staff
È una vera e propria istituzione della musica africana occidentale, l'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, proveniente da quella sottile lingua di terra tra Togo e Nigeria che una volta chiamavamo Dahomey e che ora si chiama Benin. Fondata nella seconda metà degli anni Sessanta da Mélomé Clément, la band ha offerto fino agli anni Ottanta inoltrati una ...
Craig Hilton and Tomas Phillips: Le gout de neant
by John Eyles
According to its sleeve notes, the opening track of Le goût de néant, “Sans mouvement I," is a studio recording of Craig Hilton playing solo guzheng, a multi-stringed Chinese zither with movable bridges. This is remarkable, as it does not sound like one person playing a solo instrument; the resonances produced by the guzheng create the ...
Dino Betti van der Noot: September’s New Moon
by AAJ Italy Staff
A due anni dal precedente Good Save the Earth e a sei dal ritorno sulle scene (discografiche, almeno, con Ithaca/Ithaki) dopo un silenzio ultraquindicennale, ecco il nuovo album di Dino Betti, a cui l'autore alludeva, sia pure da lontano, nell'intervista che ci concesse l'anno scorso. Album senz'altro atteso, che oggi non delude certo le aspettative. Una ...
Lisa Hilton: Underground
by Dan Bilawsky
In the minds of some musicians and fans, music is meant to be an athletic competition where speed and strength trump everything else, but a large segment of audiences and performers don't buy into that line of thinking. Others believe that music can be a vehicle for expressing emotions and dealing in the art of communication, ...
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