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Wolfgang Muthspiel: Drumfree
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Drumfree contains some of the most stimulating three-way counterpoint written and played in a long time. All of the compositional credit goes to Wolfgang Muthspiel, the composer; but making it all come alive is Muthspiel, the guitarist, and his chosen partners for this date: saxophonist Andy Scherrer and bassist Larry Grenadier. Muthspiel leads from the front ...
AA.VV.: Jazzkraut (Teutonal Jazz Rock Excursions)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Raccolta dedicata al jazz-rock Tedesco e accompagnata da un booklet snello ma informativo, questa Jazzkraut non mira all'esaustività, ma può essere un piacevole punto di partenza per l'esplorazione di un universo dalle caratteristiche in parte ancora affascinanti, sebbene legate, come il grosso della fusion di quegli anni, più a una visione virtuosistico-ginnica della musica che a ...
Augusto Pirodda: No Comment
by Dan McClenaghan
A standard comic-strip theme presents the wise man sitting cross-legged on a remote mountain top, contemplating life, the human condition, God. A searcher from the temporal world below climbs the mountain and asks the wise man a question of profound importance. The last frame of the strip is a joke, the wise man's answer that steers ...
Daniele Santimone - Ares Tavolazzi - Riccardo Paio Trio: A Little Bartok
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Mikrokosmos" sono centocinquantatre pezzi composti da Bela Bartok tra il 1926 e il 1939, nati come strumento per la didattica pianistica, rivelatisi poi una vera e propria summa dell'arte compositiva e strumentale del genio ungherese. Daniele Santimone, Ares Tavolazzi e Riccardo Paio pensano bene di applicare il linguaggio improvvisativo a queste gemme di musica europea del ...
Open Quartet: Back to the Roots
by AAJ Italy Staff
Back to the Roots è il nuovo lavoro in studio degli Open Quartet, band da sempre versata alla sonorità jazz fusion, capitanata dal chitarrista Alessandro Degasperi, leader e spesso figura decisiva di quest'album. In programma troviamo sette tracce che percorrono diversi sentieri espressivi. Si va dalle sonorità soffuse e vagamente malinconiche di “If" a quelle più ...
Brent Canter: Urgency Of Now
by Dan Bilawsky
Red flags usually pop up the minute an organ is spotted on the personnel list of a record. Regardless of the quality of the music, the direction is often set in stone, with bluesy Jimmy Smith-style swing dominating the proceedings, but that doesn't always prove to be true. In fact, guitarist Brent Canter's Urgency Of Now ...
Hiromi: Voice
by Jeff Winbush
If there's no guitar are you playing rock n' roll? If there's no singing does it make any sense to call an album Voice? Sure it does because after all, this is a Hiromi record and, while there is no guitar within earshot, there is plenty of rocking and rolling going on.Voice is not--repeat---not ...
Chris Crocco: The Chris Crocco Fluid Trio +
by AAJ Italy Staff
Segnatavi sia il nome del leader che il titolo del CD. Sono una ventata rinfrescante nell'asfittico panorama del jazz, grazie ad una serrata conversazione musicale che vede protagonisti il chitarrista newyorkese ed il celebre sassofonista George Garzone. Linee sghembe e frammentate sul modello tristaniano vanno a rinvigorire fortemente il respiro coltraniano di base, che fanno di ...
New Tricks: Alternate Side
by David A. Orthmann
Each of the nine tracks of Alternate Side by New Tricks, a quartet co-led by saxophonist Mike Lee and trumpeter Ted Chubb, is a journey of an irregular route with lots of detours. The melodies and some of the tunes' structures resemble hard bop but, in general, the music is freer and more intensely interactive. The ...
Monty Alexander: Harlem-Kingson Express: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
by Larry Taylor
Pianist Monty Alexander has always worn his Jamaican heart on his sleeve, incorporated his country's good time music with jazz for over 50 years. With Harlem-Kingston Express: Live, his Motéma debut, , he ventures even further into reggae territory. Six of the 11 tracks were recorded in 2010 at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Club ...
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