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Monty Alexander: Harlem-Kingston Express Live!

Read "Harlem-Kingston Express Live!" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
July 23, 2011

Many jazz musicians have mined the music of other cultures and countries for new ideas. Many of the most successful combinations have come from importing the music of warmer climates--Afro-Cuban and bossa nova to name but two. Monty Alexander has always done the reverse: a native of Jamaica who played straight-ahead jazz in the ...

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Shana Tucker: Shine

Read "Shine" reviewed by Larry Reni Thomas

by Larry Reni Thomas
July 23, 2011

Shine is a bright, bluesy, jazzy album from the multitalented vocalist Shana Tucker. She also plays cello and guitar on this set of Tucker compositions, with insightful autobiographical titles like the upbeat “Fast Lane," with a great line “leave the porch light on," and the ever-moving “No Get Back (Together With Me)." These tunes, along with ...

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Julio Resende Trio: You Taste Like a Song

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 22, 2011

Trio da tener d'occhio quello del portoghese Julio Resende. Innanzitutto perché suona in maniera pazzesca e come un unico organismo pensante. I ruoli sono continuamente invertiti non come semplice divertissement ma come stimolante provocazione e sollecitazione delle dinamiche interne. Il contrabbasso del formidabile Ole Morten Vagan funge spesso da traino melodico contrappuntandosi alle creazioni istantanee del ...

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Jacob Karlzon: The Big Picture

Read "The Big Picture" reviewed by Jack Huntley

by Jack Huntley
July 22, 2011

There is a crisp lyricism to even the most penetrating tracks on Jacob Karlzon 3's The Big Picture that propels the music from the somber to the majestic with equal vitality. Karlzon's nuanced keyboards seamlessly move from spacious repeating themes to intense flurries of solos, all the while supported by Hans Andersson's nimble bass and Jonas ...

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Atsuko Hashimoto: Until the Sun Comes Up

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 22, 2011

Per il suo nuovo album in studio Atsuko Hashimoto sceglie di avvalersi della collaborazione di Jeff Hamilton alla batteria, capace di restituire robustezza ritmica e lavoro di retroguardia, e Graham Dechter alla chitarra, pronto nel ritagliarsi diversi momenti di primaria importanza timbrica e melodica. L'Hammond B3 della leader, oltre ad avvolgere l'intera tracklist in quell'alone di ...

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Ben Britton's Unconventional Riot: Children At Play

Read "Children At Play" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 22, 2011

The name of saxophonist Ben Britton's new outfit, Unconventional Riot, might suggest some hard-edged, in-your-face, Mostly Other People Do The Killing type of jazz. The title of the band's debut “mini album," Children At Play, is more indicative of a looser, lighter and less serious approach. The reality is somewhere in the middle--a tight, swinging trio ...

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Mingus Big Band: Live at the Jazz Standard

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 22, 2011

L'indispensabile repertorio mingusiano, com'è noto, vive soprattutto grazie agli sforzi della vedova Sue e a un paio di formazioni che ad esso si sono dedicate mani e piedi dopo la morte del grande bassista (nello specifico prima ancora compositore). La Mingus Big Band in particolare dà alle energetiche, vociferanti pagine mingusiane quell'atavico respiro orchestrale che di ...

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Richard Pinhas: Metal/Crystal

Read "Metal/Crystal" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 22, 2011

Think of sheaths of titanium splintering across a room at the speed of light, and a moveable wall of sound that poses a daunting proposition. These are components that signal the vivid imagery, supplied by pioneering French progressive space-rock guitarist and synthesist Richard Pinhas on a set that is based on mental disorder symptoms. Along with ...

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Mondongo: Transparent Skin

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 21, 2011

"Ti piace vincere facile..." recitava qualche tempo fa un ben noto tormentone pubblicitario. La stessa cosa potremmo dire di Mondongo, formazione allestita dal batterista canadese André Michel Arraiz-Rivas che, insieme al bassista Giacomo Papetti, presenta, a modesto parere di chi scrive, i due sassofonisti più interessanti della generazione dei trentenni. Perché avere Francesco Bigoni al sax ...

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Daniel Levin: Inner Landscape

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by AAJ Italy Staff
July 21, 2011

Per il suo ottavo Clean Feed, il quinto da leader, il violoncellista Daniel Levin ha deciso di cimentarsi per la prima volta con il format del solo. Un musicista, uno strumento, un microfono, nessuna prova e nessuno spartito: le sei tracce di Inner Landscape, registrate fra Chicago e New York nel 2009, sono totalmente improvvisate, suonate ...