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Don Grolnick: Hearts and Numbers

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 26, 2011

Questo album, registrato e pubblicato nel 1985 dalla Hip Pocket, ha avuto notevole influenza su tutta la musica fusion degli anni ottanta e novanta ed era da molto tempo fuori catalogo. La Art of Life Records lo ha ristampato con un apprezzabile lavoro di masterizzazione a 24 bit che preserva la qualità della registrazione originale. Era ...

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Lucio Ferrara: It's All Right with Me

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by AAJ Italy Staff
August 26, 2011

It's All Right With Me è il risultato di tre diversi momenti della carriera di Lucio Ferrara, chitarrista forte di un bel timbro, ottima tecnica e notevole cifra espressiva. Cinque brani in scaletta - tra i quali segnaliamo “Twelve Bars for M.B." scattante per interplay millimetrico e riuscita d'insieme - scaturiscono da una seduta di registrazione ...

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Kobi Arad Band: Sketches of Imaginary Landscapes

Read "Sketches of Imaginary Landscapes" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 26, 2011

Dr. Kobi Arad hails from Israel, currently resides in New York City and received a doctorate in Contemporary Improvisation and Third Stream jazz, which are foundations and concepts that radiate on Sketches of Imaginary Landscapes. The keyboardist's improvisational skills and creative proclivities envelop this not-so-standard, jazz-based piano trio session. On the fringes of jazz-fusion, ...

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John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Contagious Words

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by AAJ Italy Staff
August 26, 2011

Impegnativa la scelta di John Vanore di chiamare il suo ensemble Abstract Truth. Il pensiero non può non andare a The Blues and the Abstract Truth, il capolavoro di Oliver Nelson e allora... beh, è meglio lasciar perdere. Nelle intenzioni di Vanore Contagious Words doveva essere una sorta di album fotografico nel quale raccogliere le storie ...

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Sean Nowell: Stockholm Swingin'

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by Bruce Lindsay
August 26, 2011

Sean Nowell has lent his talents to a diverse array of bands including Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra and his own Kung-Fu Masters, working across numerous musical styles. On Stockholm Swingin', the tenor saxophonist's third Posi-Tone release, he stays in recognizably straight-ahead territory, bringing his impressively wide-ranging and imaginative tenor sound to a live quintet recording from the ...

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Gretchen Parlato: The Lost and Found

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by AAJ Italy Staff
August 25, 2011

Da quando si è aggiudicata il prestigioso premio Thelonious Monk per i musicisti emergenti, nel lontano 2004, dopo aver frequentato i corsi dell'omonimo istituto, Gretchen Parlato ha inciso, a suo nome, poco. The Lost And Found è, infatti, il suo terzo disco solista, che segue gli altrettanto belli In a Dream e il disco d'esordio, Gretchen ...

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Etienne Charles: Kaiso

by Dan Bilawsky
August 25, 2011

The names Aldwyn Roberts and Slinger Francisco might not ring a bell in jazz circles, but trumpeter Etienne Charles' Kaiso helps to rectify that issue. Charles pays tribute to these two giants of calypso music, better known respectively as Lord Kitchener and Mighty Sparrow, and explores the fusion of Caribbean music, Latin rhythms, the sounds of ...

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Simone Guiducci: Django New Directions

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 25, 2011

La scommessa di questo bell'album di Simone Guiducci, uscito in occasione del centenario della nascita di Django Reinhardt, è dichiaratamente quella di mettere in luce la verve compositiva del chitarrista gitano invece che puntare le luci del proscenio sulla sua prodigiosa abilità tecnica come chitarrista. Le composizioni di Django ben si prestano a questo trattamento che ...

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Joe Hertenstein / Thomas Heberer / Joachim Badenhorst / Pascal Niggenkemper: Polylemma

Read "Polylemma" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 25, 2011

German drummer Joe Hertenstein currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he ingratiates his wares into the pulsating jazz-improvisation climate. His trio HNH, featuring quarter-tone trumpet ace Thomas Heberer and drummer Pascal Niggenkemper, receives a shrewdly devised uplift with the addition of bass clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst on Polylemma; a term that indicates a difficult predicament. Keeping in ...

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The Resonance Ensemble: Kafka In Flight

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by John Sharpe
August 25, 2011

It may subvert expectations to note that the “resonance" in this group's name is with the big bands of the 1940s and '50s, rather than any forbidding improv austerity. Kafka In Flight, the third release by Chicago reedman/composer Ken Vandermark's multinational aggregation, follows the Live In Lviv (Not Two, 2008) LP and eponymous ten-CD set (Not ...