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Andrea Beneventano Trio: The Driver

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 1, 2011

The Driver è il nuovo lavoro da leader del pianista Andrea Beneventano - dopo Trinacria del 2003 -, che in questa occasione completa il suo trio con gli ottimi Francesco Puglisi al contrabbasso e Nicola Angelucci alla batteria. Formazione classica dunque, che sa offrire nelle nove tracce proposte - tutte a firma del leader tranne un ...

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Idée Manu: Water Chute

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 1, 2011

Questo quartetto svizzero privilegia la libera improvvisazione ma i suoi riferimenti sono diversificati e risente in modo consistente anche della tradizione classica (la scelta del repertorio, che include rifacimenti di temi di Satie e Messiaen è indicativa) e del contemporary mainstream. Manuela Keller è giunta ad operare nell'ambito del jazz d'avanguardia dopo un lungo training nella ...

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Rahe: Out of the Box

Read "Out of the Box" reviewed by Seton Hawkins

by Seton Hawkins
July 1, 2011

Originally hailing from Spain, Tucson-based singer-songwriter/guitarist Rahe (pronounced “Ray") has rapidly established herself as a noteworthy new voice in the music. While not yet a household name, Rahe may change that following the release of her debut, Out of the Box, a musical outing of wonderful creativity. Clocking in at a relatively modest 32 ...

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Kayo Hiraki: I Wish You Love

Read "I Wish You Love" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2011

Japanese pianist Kayo Hiraki is in search of her audience. She has self-released a smart set of standards in the trio format that is garnering attention from all quarters of the jazz writing world. A ballad specialist, to be sure, Hiraki resists the modern impulse to deconstruct, keeping the tunes intact and in congress with the ...

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Matt Blostein - Vinnie Sperrazza Band: Paraphrase

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2011

Così come si dividono la leadership del quartetto, altrettanto democraticamente contribuiscono con quattro brani a testa alla realizzazione di Paraphrase. Uno, Matt Blostein, suona il sax contralto, l'altro, Vinnie Sperrazza, si destreggia alla batteria ed insieme a Jacob Garchick, trombone, e Geoff Kraly, basso elettrico, formano una band che, pressoché sconosciuta dalle nostre parti, vanta un ...

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Laszlo Gardony: Signature Time

Read "Signature Time" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 30, 2011

As composer, Laszlo Gardony posits--without much opposition--that the inspiration of all modern music owes a debt to the “birthplace of culture and sound: Africa. As a composer and pianist he develops his hypothesis with Signature Time, an album of considerable and somewhat dark beauty. Driven by the percussive nature of African music--in almost continuous binary rhythms--Gardony's ...

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Paolo Di Sabatino Trio with Horns: Luna del Sud

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2011

Luna del sud nasce da una seduta di registrazione del giugno 2010, nella quale al trio capitanato da Paolo Di Sabatino si sono affiancati i saxofonisti Javier Girotto e Gianni Di Benedetto e il trombettista Andrea Sabatino. Dieci tracce che nel loro insieme formano un programma interessante, dove si alternano rivisitazioni di grandi classici - tra ...

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David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 30, 2011

Alto saxophonist/composer David Binney must not worry about “market saturation." He releases albums, as a leader for both Criss Cross and his own Mythology label, at a rate that many top jazz artists did during the late 1950's and early 1960's. Less than six months into 2011, he has already offered up Graylen Epicenter (Mythology) and ...

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Geoff Goodman: Jazz + Haiku

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2011

Jazz + Haiku è un lungo flusso di note e ritmi delicati, quasi lounge, come una lunga pergamena che si sta srotolando per mostrare gli ideogrammi di piccoli quadri, piccole e minuscole descrizioni poetiche, “una porta mezza aperta" in un tempo “psicologico" ben preciso ma evidentemente fuori dalla storia. E' Matsuo Basho, il più importante e ...

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Silvano Monasterios: Unconditional

Read "Unconditional" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 30, 2011

The word “unconditional" is often associated with love, referencing the feeling that parents have for their children and pets have for their owners, but the word itself isn't limited to use on this topic. In fact, the very meaning of “unconditional" actually addresses a lack of limitations or constraints, as does the music on pianist Silvano ...