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William Hooker - Thomas Chapin: Crossing Points
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'aggiornato e appassionato blog Free Jazz dedica a questo disco una recensione di pochissime righe, quasi una lista di tags che forse meglio di ogni ragionamento riesce a dare le coordinate della musica del duo tra il batterista William Hooker e il sassofonista Thomas Chapin. Certo, a elencare qualità [a volte anche apparentemente ossimoriche come lirismo ...
Grupo Falso Baiano: Simplicidade: Live at Yoshi's
by Dan McClenaghan
In the early 1960s, a series of albums by Stan Getz, including Jazz Samba (Verve Records, 1962), with guitarist Charlie Byrd, and Getz/Gilberto (Verve Records, 1963), with Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim, helped propel the Brazilian bossa nova to an unusually high level of popularity. But in Brazil, before there was bossa nova there was ...
Yaala Ballin: On The Road
by Dan Bilawsky
Yaala Ballin's On The Road came into being as the young vocalist came off the road, completing an international tour with her working band. Ballin wisely chose to capitalize on the musical bonds and connections forged on the road, bringing the band into the studio to record a set that reflects the programming and flow of ...
Ingrid Laubrock / Sleepthief: The Madness of Crowds
by Nic Jones
As of The Madness of Crowds, saxophonist Laubrock, pianist Liam Noble and drummer Tom Rainey are one of the most rewarding bands out there. They were before, but now the clarity and depth of interaction in their music is enough to deepen that assertion, and when a signature sound also comes as part of the deal ...
Ensemble Fur Neue Musik, Zurich: Women Composers I
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Even in the liberal societies of the Western world, women have rarely been recognized for their contributions to the arts in the same manner as men. Music has been a particularly difficult field for them to break into, despite some having rather sublime talent. From Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann to Lili Boulanger and her sister, ...
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman
by C. Michael Bailey
The Arkansas delta grit is gone from his voice, replaced by age and disease with the well-sanded twang of an American Southern Isaiah, if Johnny Cash were a stern Elijah. Levon Helm was the first voice among equals in The Band, sharing vocal duties with the equally distinctive vocals of bassist Rick Danko and pianist Richard ...
Christoph Siegrist: Welcome To The Blue World
by Dan Bilawsky
Trumpeter Christoph Siegrist's Blue World is not the world of the blues. Instead, the Swedish-born horn man populates this realm with songs that expand the modern language of jazz by using solid, yet moving, rhythmic tides and angular horn lines that join together or swoop around one another. Siegrist's primary partner in crime is tenor saxophonist ...
Rob Mazurek's Starlicker: Double Demon
by Nic Jones
Starlicker is a trio which crosses the genres with ease and a healthy disregard for categorization. Cornetist Rob Mazurek is one of those musicians more preoccupied with the future of improvised music than with its glorious past. Much the same can be said for vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, who once again proves himself to be one of ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Dance Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dieci brani arrangiati da Anthony Branker compongono la scaletta dell'ottimo Dance Music, album che già dal titolo lascia intendere ciò che si andrà ad ascoltare, anche se la musica che contiene non è proprio tutta da ballare, anzi. Ma andiamo con ordine, mettendo subito l'asterisco vicino al nome della vocalist Kadri Voorand, la quale, con il ...
Luca Pincini – Gilda Buttà: Clataja
by AAJ Italy Staff
Clataja, ovvero classica più tango più jazz: ecco le coordinate che informano questo inusuale lavoro, che riunisce una concertista di fama come Gilda Buttà, già moglie del compianto Michel Petrucciani, il suo attuale marito, il violoncellista Luca Pincini, a sua volta rinomato solista (entrambi collaborano fra l'altro con Ennio Morricone), e due jazzmen di vaglia quali ...
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