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Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band: Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band Volume Two
by Wade Luquet
Coming off of the success of its first studio CD, Fritzel's Jazz Band delivers once again with its fifteen-song Volume Two. Fritzel's is the venerable forty year-old New Orleans jazz club, located in the 700 block of Bourbon Street that has established an international reputation for Dixieland jazz in a fun European-style bar setting. This CD ...
Duo Jalal: A Different World
by AAJ Italy Staff
Kathryn Lockwood e Yousif Sheronick, nella vita moglie e marito, compongono un originale duo, dedito a un repertorio molto calato nei tempi, quindi - come si dice - trasversale, anche se sono i profumi etnici attorcigliati a un aplomb squisitamente concertistico (almeno nella violista) a rappresentare la chiave di volta di questo bel lavoro, alimentato da ...
Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful!
by Dan Bilawsky
When it came time for the SFJAZZ Collective to choose a composer to honor in their eighth season, they surprised a lot of people when they went with the one and only Stevie Wonder. While some likely view this decision as a statement that, after covering Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, ...
Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra: Hothouse Stomp
by AAJ Italy Staff
Capita, quando meno te l'aspetti, che un disco ti colpisca in pieno volto, come un sonoro schiaffo. Un disco dal quale, magari, non ti aspettavi nulla di particolare, e che invece, ascolto dopo ascolto (ma in questo caso ne è bastato uno per cedere di schianto) dispiega la sua irresistibile bellezza, l'incontornabile felicità espressiva, l'imperdonabile (come ...
Larry Vuckovich: Somethin' Special
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Larry Vuckovich made his recording debut as a leader with Blue Balkan (Inner City Records, 1980), although his playing career began in the '50s, after he arrived in the United States from his native Yugoslavia as a teenager. His recorded output as a leader has been relatively sparse--around a dozen albums--but he's carved out a ...
Honey Ear Trio: Steampunk Serenade
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'iniziale “Matter of Time" ha il sapore del buon vecchio jazz che fu, una ballad voluttuosa con il sax tenore dalla voce calda e sensuale che fa sognare incontri da “mille e una notte". Ma ci sono piccole increspature, minimi scartamenti e irregolarità ritmiche che tolgono il brano da qualsiasi impasse zuccherina e presagiscono temporali in ...
Charlotte Hug: Slipway to Galaxies
by John Eyles
On parts of her last Emanem release, Fine Extensions (2010)--a duo with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm--in addition to playing her customary viola Charlotte Hug also used her voice. She sang in a quasi-operatic style as well as vocalizing, to produce eerie, other-worldly sounds, her voice combining with and complementing the strings to good effect. Now, on Slipway ...
Les Doigts De L'Homme: 1910
by Bruce Lindsay
The French quartet Les Doigts de L'Homme plays gypsy jazz, inspired very directly by the work of Django Reinhardt, and like much of Reinhardt's own music 1910 swings. In fact, it swings like the clappers. Acoustic guitars, double-bass, and an occasional clarinet create a wave of musical energy, of sheer danceable fun, that would do justice ...
Ken Fowser / Behn Gillece: Duotone
by Dan Bilawsky
"Duotone" is a term that belongs to the world of photography, but it makes perfect sense when applied to this recording. Tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser and vibraphonist Behn Gillece superimpose their tonal colors and personalities against one another, to create an aural portrait that's both traditional and modern. While the supporting personnel have ...
Samuel Blaser: Consort in Motion
by Dan McClenaghan
There is something positively celestial about Consort in Motion. It's like listening to a soundtrack of the workings of a Jovian planetary system: a substantial mass in the middle (Samuel Blaser's trombone), orbiting moons and scatterings of interplanetary debris (bass and drums); and flashes and sparkles twinkling off of space dust (piano), with things making sense ...
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