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Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Soul of the Movement
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il packaging è accattivante. Un edizione cartonata che si apre a libro in tre parti, ricche di immagini color seppia raffiguranti leaders e momenti della protesta nera che scosse gli Stati Uniti agli inizi degli anni sessanta. Oltre alle foto, alcune riflessioni di Marcus Shelby e di Martin Luther King, cui l'album è dedicato. E infine ...
Marco Poggiolesi - Ferdinando Romano: Tandem
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tandem traduce in musica il percorso intrapreso dal chitarrista Marco Poggiolesi e dal bassista Ferdinando Romano, due musicisti preparati, affiatati e vogliosi di esprimere attraverso le loro composizioni, ed alcuni standard, un punto di vista emozionale. Dodici brani in scaletta che indagano diversi territori stilistici. A cominciare da quello della tradizione cantautorale italiana, con la cantabilità ...
Lisa Hilton: Underground
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un moderrn mainstream tutt'altro che scontato caratterizza il nono CD della pianista californiana Lisa Hilton. Al suo fianco tre superbi musicisti per un approccio trasversale agli stili del jazz, toccando blues, free e perfino echi classicheggianti. Underground è un disco in piena linea con le tendenze imperanti del post-moderno, volto a costruire percorsi mutidirezionali con un ...
Samuel Blaser: Consort in Motion
by Troy Collins
Initially defined by composer Gunther Schuller in the late 1950s as a synthesis of jazz improvisation and classical composition, the Third Stream movement has since drifted into relative obscurity. However, in the ensuing decades the milieu has provided fertile ground for a number of visionary artists to make bold statements. The increasingly commonplace role of conservatory ...
John Escreet: The Age We Live In
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist John Escreet's meteoric rise into the pantheon of forward-thinking jazz composers has everything to do with his understanding of the fast-paced way of life that seems to have overtaken much of society. Everything is absorbed in little bites, quick flashes, and small doses by the younger generations that have been brought up in this short-attention-span ...
Charles Hayward - Han-Earl Park - Ian Smith plus Lol Coxhill: Mathilde 253
by AAJ Italy Staff
Mathilde 253. Come l'asteroide del diametro di 53 km scoperto nel 1885 da Johann Palisa. Come il trio di improvvisatori che con l'omonimo album di debutto ci presenta una musica che sembra provenire da un altro pianeta. Un oggetto spaziale non identificato che lambisce la terra, le sue miserie e le sue tribolazioni, e lancia un ...
Jeff Hackworth: Night Owl
by Greg Simmons
Tenorist Jeff Hackworth taps late 1960s soul jazz on Night Owl. The instrumental mix, with Hammond B3, vibraphone and drums, draws a straight line to the traditions of masters like Lou Donaldson and Big John Patton. The use of organ, in particular, is a distinctive and tacit embrace of the instrument's ability to make anything sound ...
Itai Kriss: The Shark
by Edward Blanco
Swimming through the ocean of jazz, navigating the currents of melodies and harmonies while avoiding the jaws of a shark, can be a blissful experience. There is one shark, though, that needn't be feared, masterfully created by Israeli-born flautist Itai Kriss. The Shark is an exercise in modern hard-bop and Caribbean/Latin rhythms that takes a big ...
Lars Jansson Trio: In Search of Lost Time
by Chris Mosey
Pianist Lars Jansson recently cleared out the music room of his home in Gothenburg, on Sweden's west coast, and in the process, found some old songs he'd written but forgotten. Inspired by Marcel Proust's epic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, he put them together with some new ones to create an album that sheds ...
Xavi Maureta & Adam Kolker: La Perfeccio de la Irrealitat
by Greg Simmons
La Perfecció de la Irrealitat is a sophisticated, expressive collection of compositions. Each tracks is layered with intricate musical constructs, building single-instrument melodies into fully articulated ensemble statements. Even at its most aggressive improvisational points, the quintet's sense of melodic continuity and ensemble character remain intact. Initially, great melodies rule the day, but the ...
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