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Jeff Hackworth: Night Owl

Read "Night Owl" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

If there is one trait that time has etched on Jeff Hackworth's career it is his development as a tenor saxophonist. Hackworth has shown a growing maturity on his recordings, with Night Owl being his strongest. He is not afraid to take chances and develops themes with an abiding sense of adventure. His tone can be ...

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Claudio Riggio Ensemble + Tom Harrell: Audrey

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Audrey racchiude ventitrè composizioni che vedono protagonista l'ensemble capitanato da Claudio Riggio e il trombettista Tom Harrell, in quello che potremmo descrivere come un viaggio immaginario attraverso una dimensione atemporale, fatta di situazioni appena accennate, altre più compiute e alcune decisamente meglio definite. Brani che cambiano ripetutamente pelle, sviluppati in varie formazioni grazie alla capacità di ...

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Paolo Fresu - A Filetta Corsican Voices - Daniele Di Bonaventura: Mistico Mediterraneo

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by AAJ Italy Staff

A Filetta è il gruppo vocale che più di ogni altro, da trent'anni, porta avanti la prosecuzione e lo sviluppo del canto a cappella tradizionale della Corsica. Prosecuzione, perché è nella lunga tradizione isolana che si radica la tecnica vocale e la proposta poetica di A Filetta, nato infatti nel 1978 come gruppo di musica tradizionale; ...

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Andrzej Przybielski with Oles Brothers: De Profundis

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by Jerry D'Souza

When trumpeter Andrzej Przybielski passed on in February 2011, he left behind a rich legacy in music. His name may not be widely known outside his native Poland, but he was nevertheless a stylist who carved a nook in several genres. He could play a melody with warmth, and then dart into trajectories that broke the ...

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Matthew Rybicki: Driven

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Metti una sera a cena in compagnia di amici vogliosi di conversare e scambiare opinioni, metti il CD firmato da Matthew Rybicki in sottofondo: sarà perfetto. Questo perché Driven - esordio da leader del trentasettenne contrabbassista - , con il suo movimento generale votato a un mainstream lineare ed educato, non rapisce l'attenzione, così racchiuso nel ...

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Chicago Yestet: Jazz Is Politics?

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by Alex Marianyi

For an introduction to the Chicago jazz scene, look no further than the Chicago Yestet's line-up on Jazz Is Politics?. From drummer Dana Hall (Terell Stafford) to John Wojciechowski, a finalist in the 1996 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition, the roster reads like a who's who in Midwestern jazz. Staying true to the album's ...

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Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian: Live at Birdland

Read "Live at Birdland" reviewed by Kevin Davis

by Kevin Davis

It begins with a conversation between Lee Konitz's airy alto sax and Paul Motian's even more ethereal drums, and instantly the groove of this 1954 Sonny Rollins workhorse, “Oleo," feels comfortable, welcoming, and lived-in. Like much of what transpired on the December, 2009 dates from which ECM culled Live at Birdland, which plays home to this ...

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Abdou Mboup – Lloyd Haber – Jaribu Shahid – Warren Smith: Bones & Tones

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il modello di riferimento di questo album, per quanto nel frattempo parecchia acqua sia passata sotto i ponti e certi intrecci strumentali non rappresentino più una rarità, sembra essere, in soldoni, il roachiano M'Boom Re: Percussion, di cui d'altra parte uno dei membri di questo pur sempre inusuale quartetto, Warren Smith, faceva parte. Se così è, ...

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Animalunga: Market Polka

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by AAJ Italy Staff

A quattro anni dal disco d'esordio, Il mio posto nel mondo, torna questo interessante e originale trio, che - atipicamente - affianca i mantici ai classici pianoforte e contrabbasso. La prima novità è l'ingresso nella formazione, al posto di Alberto Tafuri, del pianista Fabio Giachino: venticinque anni, formazione musicale classica, rigorosa preparazione jazzistica la cui qualità ...

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Brad Mehldau: Live in Marciac

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by Kevin Davis

In his 2000 book Fargo Rock City (Scribner), Chuck Klosterman explains a phenomenon in heavy metal that involves the critical threshold at which the speed of notes within a solo actually changes the inherent meaning of the sound. To illustrate his point, he describes a passage by ex-Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent that, upon crossing said threshold, ...


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