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Ken Vandermark Predella Group: Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water
by Mark Corroto
Prolific composer/saxophonist Ken Vandermark's first soundtrack Project, Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water, brings together his multiple interests and sound designs, creating a work for the film by Augusto Contento. It can exists as a standalone album, separate from the film, without commentary.Recorded in 2008, Vandermark's Predella Group reunites trombonist Jeb Bishop--an original member ...
Simin Tander: Wagma
by C. Michael Bailey
Simin Tander is a polyglot German-Afghan singer who combines the fierce creativity of Meredith Monk with the jazz savvy of Gretchen Parlato. She has surrounded herself with a like-minded trio that is willing to forge in whatever direction she desires, with music and singing full of wordless howls, purrs, and calls. This is multicultural music with ...
Stelios Petrakis / Efrén López / Bijan Chemirani: Mavra Froudia (Black eyebrows)
by Eyal Hareuveni
It is quite rare to find, in so-called world music, a unique and original meeting of cultures, striking in its obvious, organic and modest simplicity. As if that is the way things should be, without artificial political/artistic/cultural conventions and free of the new-age baggage of superficial slogans about one world without borders. But that is exactly ...
Francesco Nastro Quartet: Waiting for a New World
by AAJ Italy Staff
Francesco Nastro prende spunto da alcuni grandi passaggi del repertorio classico - nello specifico va a indagare i pentagrammi di Mozart, Bach e Skrjabin - per dar vita alla sua personale idea di jazz, tradotta nei dieci originali che formano la scaletta di Waiting for a New World. Brani che emanano un'enorme profondità espressiva, freschezza formale ...
Carolyn Nelson: Come a Little Closer
by Chris M. Slawecki
Carolyn Nelson has one of those voices that might lead you to think you've heard her sing before. And you might have: although Come A Little Closer is her solo debut, Nelson has performed throughout the US and Canada plus two tours of Spain (she can sing in five languages), has appeared on the daytime TV ...
George Colligan: Isolation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Isolation. Isolamento. Quello ispirato a George Colligan da un corso d'insegnamento tenuto in un vecchio castello danese nei paraggi di Copenhagen. Ma anche l'isolamento dell'artista, solo di fronte allo strumento, i suoi pensieri, la sua musica. La musica per l'appunto. Tra le possibili scelte su come affrontare un piano solo Colligan ha optato per la più ...
Clifford Lamb: One
by Larry Taylor
It's a pleasure to discover a jazz performer. whose style is unique. Pianist Clifford Lamb is in this category as he displays in One. Hailing from Oakland, California, he has put together San Francisco Bay area musicians, Darrell Green on drums and Ron Belcher, bass, who help considerably to bring out his individualistic touch. ...
Kermit Driscoll: Reveille
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Boomstatz" con il suo andamento indolente e groovy, non avrebbe sfigurato, tutt'altro, in “Paris, Texas" di Wim Wenders. “Ire," dall'atmosfera misteriosa e a tratti impenetrabile sarebbe un perfetto commento sonoro agli incubi e alle ossessioni dei film di David Cronenberg. Una grande versione di “Great Expectations" sembra farci rivivere una qualche marachella combinata dai fratelli Jack ...
Lee Jones: Songs From The 13th Hour
by Douglas Payne
This enjoyable and engaging album--guitarist Lee Jones's second as a leader--aims to throw some much-needed wrinkles in to the smoothness of so much contemporary jazz. That's not really newsworthy, of course, but hardly anyone thus far has succeeded in doing it so successfully. While so many of today's new breed of jazz guitarists are ...
Daniel Bennett Group: Peace & Stability Among Bears
by Josep Pedro
Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Bennett concludes his trilogy of fables about bears, deepening his unique mixture of jazz, folk, minimalism and trance musics with Peace & Stability Among Bears. Following melodic exploration as the main idea, Bennett combines lightness and subtlety with dreamlike passages that define his particular sound universe. Entertaining and complex, Peace & Stability Among Bears ...
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