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Christophe Goze: The Long Way Home

Read "The Long Way Home" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Christophe Goze un paio di cose le ha capite. Primo: per lavorare nel music biz non bisogna buttare via niente. Nemmeno se si tratta di scrivere la musica per spot pubblicitari, documentari e vita televisiva tout court. Secondo: non per questo si è musicisti di serie B. È un globetrotter, un giramondo di lusso, però. Tra ...

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Michael Benedict & Bopitude: Michael Benedict & Bopitude

Read "Michael Benedict & Bopitude" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Drummer Michael Benedict's Bopitude is of a very special variety...Hard Bopitude. Michael Benedict & Bopitude is chockfull of hard bop from the likes of Clifford Brown ("Joy Spring"), Grachan Moncur III ("Frankenstein") and Bobby Timmons ("Moanin'"). Pianist Bruce Barth brings his bop togs to the festivities and the classic Jazz Messenger lineup (trumpet and tenor saxophone ...

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Chris Dingman: Waking Dreams

Read "Waking Dreams" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

Many jazz releases suffer from the same old “song and dance" syndrome--a couple of obligatory ballads (song narrative) sprinkled between numbers of up-tempo (dance) tracks. This repeated programming can get old very fast. But this is not the case with Waking Dreams , the long overdue and brilliant debut by vibraphonist Chris Dingman. ...

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Daniel Levin: Organic Modernism

Read "Organic Modernism" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

«La verità necessita sempre di essere costruita» dice lo psicanalista francese Michel Schneider, citato all'inizio delle note di copertina di questo bel disco e se, come si legge più avanti «la musica si colloca in quel territorio elusivo tra ciò che noi percepiamo come realtà e l'illusione» allora il lavoro di questo straordinario quartetto sembra aver ...

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Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life

Read "Straight Life" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

On the surface, Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life doesn't seem like a record that should have ever found much success on the CTI label. This record lacks any grandiose arrangements or classical-jazz crossovers, two of the three tracks are far too long to garner much airplay, and those same two tracks--"Straight Life" and “Mr. Clean"--are far rawer ...

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John Taylor: Requiem for a Dream

Read "Requiem for a Dream" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Commissionata nel 2007 dall'università di York (UK), questa suite di cinquanta minuti trae spunto dall'opera dello scrittore statunitense Kurt Vonnegut. Alcuni personaggi chiave dei suoi racconti danno infatti il titolo agli episodi di un disco intimo e toccante, ancorché affascinante. Secondo un canone ormai consolidato del pianista inglese, si impongono anche qui limpide architetture, musicali e ...

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Simone Massaron: The Big Empty

Read "The Big Empty" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Primo lavoro di sola chitarra per il milanese Simone Massaron, tra i musicisti italiani più attivi e originali nel campo dell'improvvisazione jazzistica. Il particolare contesto sottolinea le sue affinità con altri specialisti della sei corde da lui sempre citati tra le principali influenze come Marc Ribot, Elliot Sharp e Nels Cline, ma il tipo di approccio ...

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Duane Padilla: Sentimental Swing

Read "Sentimental Swing" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Hot Club of Hulaville violinist Duane Padilla echos the golden age of Stéphane Grappelli, by way of Joe Venuti. Sentimental Swing presents nothing new and breaks no revolutionary jazz ground, being made up of ten well-worn jazz standards, presented in a violin-piano-bass trio format. Was all this necessary? Perhaps not, but Padilla does put a pleasant ...

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Salvo Lazzara & Pensiero Nomade: Materia e Memoria

Read "Materia e Memoria" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Fonosfere è una costola della label Dodicilune creata con l'intento di aprirsi alle musiche del mondo e testimoniarne diversità e specificità antropologica. Non sappiamo dire se Materia e Memoria centri pienamente questo obiettivo. Sicuramente ci sembra un lavoro aperto e trasversale dove confluiscono diverse suggestioni e disparate influenze stilistiche e di genere. Vi si ritrovano le ...

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Chris Schlarb: Psychic Temple

Read "Psychic Temple" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Chris Schlarb isn't your typical composer, working for a year on this music before writing any melodies. However, given that his previous recording, the beguiling Twilight and Ghost Stories (Asthmatic Kitty Records, 2007), took four years and long periods of soul-searching, little the guitarist and electronics musician of such adventurous outfits as Create (!) and I-Heart-Lung ...


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