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Vivian Buczek: Dedication To My Giants

Read "Dedication To My Giants" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 2, 2011

Dedication To My Giants, is Vivian Buczek's tribute to those giants of jazz who have inspired the Swedish vocalist's own work. While Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles get a mention, Buczek's giants for are predominantly instrumentalists--John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown included--and as a result her song selection for this, her third album, avoids the ...

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Nologicduo: Fantasia for 4 Hands and 1 Mouse

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 2, 2011

Di “nologico," nel duo che propone questa “fantasia per quattro mani e un mouse," c'è tanto l'intento di tenere assieme un pianoforte e la sola elettronica live, quanto il mettere questa azzardata coppia alla prova nientemeno che della Fantasia in Do minore KV 475 di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Il tutto, per giunta, registrato dal vivo e ...

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Wolfert Brederode Quartet: Post Scriptum

Read "Post Scriptum" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 2, 2011

ECM Records has a way of offering up music from various artists that seems as if it has existed forever--in nature, in the air--and that they, the label and the artists involved--be it pianists Tord Gustavsen or Bobo Stenson, or saxophonist Jan Garbarek--are simply conduits for grabbing those sounds and bringing them to the listening/CD-buying public. ...

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Giannantonio De Vincenzo: I piedi nelle scarpe

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 2, 2011

Il veneziano Giannantonio De Vincenzo torna a registrare un lavoro a proprio nome dopo sette anni e lo fa con un album di brani originali (suoi o cofimati dai suoi compagni), messi in scena assieme al piano di Paolo Birro e alle percussioni e all'elettronica di Leo di Angilla, oltre che - in alcuni brani - ...

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Jeremy Noller: Music Notes

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by Greg Simmons
September 2, 2011

Jeremy Noller's debut as a leader makes a broad case for his international brand of jazz. Music Notes assembles a variety of musical strains, including American jazz, West-African rhythms, and even folk music, blending them all seamlessly. With eight original compositions, Noller proves his value as a composer as well as a drummer. The ...

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Jo-Yu Chen: Obsession

Read "Obsession" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 2, 2011

Allieva di Kenny Barron, Jason Moran e Sam Yahel, la pianista taiwanese fa il suo ingresso sulla scena del jazz dalla porta principale, debuttando in trio con un lavoro co-prodotto con il suo mentore Yahel, grande strumentista ancora in attesa dei dovuti riconoscimenti. Il CD dopo essere apparso sul mercato come autoproduzione è stato poco dopo ...

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Mark McKnight: Do Or Die

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by Bruce Lindsay
September 1, 2011

Do Or Die, Irish guitarist Mark McKnight's second album, features an organ quartet rather than the more usual organ trio. The added musical depth comes courtesy of saxophonist Seamus Blake, who joins McKnight's trio on a set of tunes with a laid back, almost hypnotic, feel. McKnight emphasizes melody and mood above speed ...

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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Treelines

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 1, 2011

L'aria frizzante del Canada deve avere un effetto benefico sulla conduzione delle big band. La saxofonista Christine Jensen, sorella della più nota Ingrid trombettista, si presenta alla grande con questo ottimo Treelines che riporta d'attualità lo stile di Gil Evans, canadese di origine, cosmopolita di cuore. C'è un evidente anello di congiunzione costituito dal lavoro egregio ...

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Nordic Connect: Spirals

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 1, 2011

Flurry, l'album d'esordio, ci aveva ammaliato perché la lezione dell'ultimo grande quintetto di Miles Davis sembrava rivivere e assumere nuove sembianze grazie ad una sensibilità tutta femminile e ad una rilassatezza tipicamente nordica. Nordic Connect, per l'appunto il nome dell'ensemble, perché nelle vene di ciascuno dei membri del quintetto scorre per lo meno un briciolo di ...

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Daniel Rosenthal: Lines

by Greg Simmons
September 1, 2011

Lines, Daniel Rosenthal's debut as a leader, is a soft-spoken little album with an unusual instrumental mix and inventive tunes. The Boston trumpeter, a five-year veteran of the Either/Orchestra, offers stripped-down arrangements with the periodic inclusion of the banjo to spice things up. With the exception of two Thelonious Monk tunes, Rosenthal is responsible ...