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Janya: Janya
by Dan Bilawsky
Janya's sound is all about Korean-influenced music for the free jazz-loving soul. The members of this female foursome are all of Korean descent, and bring a free yet flowing sensibility to this seven-song program of original music. While the presence of instruments like gayageum, daegeum and janggo--a zither-like string instrument, bamboo transverse flute, ...
The Brian Landrus Quartet: Traverse
by AAJ Italy Staff
Bella band di professionisti quella che ruota intorno al sassofonista baritono Brain Landrus, allievo del noto pianista Michael Cain. Landrus colpisce subito per il suo tono colloquiale, per il fraseggio da tenorista, per la morbidezza del suono e pure, quando necessario, per la fluidità con cui padroneggia l'ingombrante strumento ("Lydian 4"). Ha poco a che fare ...
Theo Saunders: Intergeneration
by Chuck Koton
Born into the cultural vortex that is New York City's Upper West Side and raised by Broadway theater-performing parents, Theo Saunders was destined for the creative life. By the time he graduated from New York's prestigious High School for the Performing Arts, Saunders knew his future would be made seated in front of a piano playing ...
Jake Fryer – Bud Shank: In Good Company
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il particolare sorprendente, quasi agghiacciante, che contraddistingue questo album è la data d'incisione: 1° aprile 2009 (a San Diego), vale a dire esattamente il giorno prima della scomparsa di Bud Shank. Il quale meritava con tutta probabilità miglior epitaffio di questa pur dignitosissima blowin' session col giovane collega inglese Jake Fryer, di fatto responsabile reale del ...
Sir Roland Hanna: Colors From A Giant's Kit
by Greg Simmons
Sir Roland Hanna (1932--2002) recorded a series of undated solo piano sessions for IPO founder Bill Soren, some of which are now released as Colors From A Giant's Kit. Vault finds--those undiscovered recordings that have been made, shelved and largely unheard for decades--can be some of the most entertaining recordings in jazz. How marvelous to listen ...
Sir Roland Hanna: Colors From A Giant's Kit
by Dan Bilawsky
When an artist passes on, the true fans mourn and the record companies often search through their vaults to try to capitalize on their passing. This often results in hastily compiled collections of music, or the surfacing of sub-par recordings that weren't released for obvious reasons when the artist was still around. That's not the case ...
Sasha Masakowski and Musical Playground: Wishes
by C. Michael Bailey
The field of female jazz vocals is somewhat bigger than 40 acres...like, a universe bigger. So congested is the musical ether with this flavor of jazz that it is nearly impossible for an artist to carve out a useful niche. Not that a niche is necessary, but it is nice to have some unifying element or ...
T.R.E.: Lyrics
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quarto lavoro in studio per il Tri Razional Eccentrico (dopo Passaggi, Riflessi e Viaggio), formazione composta da Alessandro Giachero, Stefano Risso e Marco Zanoli, musicisti dal linguaggio stilistico moderno, pronti nell'omaggiare con grande suggestione e rispetto la tradizione jazzistica attraverso un CD di standard, ma anche perfettamente in grado di proiettarsi nell'attualità con un secondo CD ...
Camillo Pace - Connie Valentino: Uhuru Wetu – The Music Of Bob Marley
by AAJ Italy Staff
Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Curtis Mayfield, Martin Luther King e papa Giovanni Paolo II. Chi fa convivere tutte queste icone in un solo album di otto tracce? Camillo Pace e Connie Valentini, firmando un album-tributo a Bob Marley. Huru Wetu - The Music of Bob Marley è un titolo sicuramente parziale, se osserviamo con occhio analitico ...
Boom Box: Jazz
by Henry Smith
Free jazz can have some fairly antisocial connotations. Too often, the term raises an undeserved fear in the uninitiated, as freedom can be scary. That hardly necessitates that it lack beauty, lyricism or intimacy, however; it simply means that those traits are arrived at by organic means rather than controlled ones. Few artists ...
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