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Scoolptures: White Sickness

Read "White Sickness" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 6, 2011

White Sickness is an extension of Scoolpture's 2009 outing for Leo Records, Materiale Umano. Again, the unorthodox lineup intimates the man and machine lineup via the quartet's heavy use of electronics. However, the program is designed with equilibrium, where the live electronics, drums, and sax elements attains equal footing with the effects playing a vital role. ...

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Anthony Braxton: Trio and Quintet (Town Hall) 1972

Read "Trio and Quintet (Town Hall) 1972" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 6, 2011

If Anthony Braxton were to be judged on the basis of his oeuvre alone, he would stand completely apart from any modern composer, bar none. He has an enormous body of work, written for every conceivable permutation and combination of ensemble, from two to over a hundred and also for practically all the modern instruments known ...

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David Gibson: End Of The Tunnel

Read "End Of The Tunnel" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 6, 2011

Words like “funky" and “groovy" are often bandied about by musicians, reviewers and fans alike. Once upon a time they represented the heights of popular musical achievement; today, they're a little anachronistic, their use more ironic than laudatory. Then something comes along that epitomizes both terms, and reclaims them as badges of honor. Trombonist David Gibson's ...

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Heiner Stadler: Tribute to Bird & Monk

Read "Tribute to Bird & Monk" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
June 6, 2011

Tribute to Bird & Monk is a scintillating blast recorded in 1978, when the battle lines between innovation and the tradition were clearly drawn. In tackling compositions by Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, and casting them in a fresh light, arranger Heiner Stadler obviously wasn't shy about playing the provocative agent. Initially it sounds as if ...

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Katchie & Le Monde Cache: Tales & Tongues

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by Edward Blanco
June 6, 2011

Vocalist Katharine “Katchie" Cartwright is certainly one extremely talented individual. A Ph. D. in ethnomusicology provides a clue of her caliber on Tales & Tongues. An educator, professional singer and musician, her experience with workshops throughout Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Asia and West Africa, has prepared her well for this particular project, where Cartwright--along with ...

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Joe McPhee - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Blue Chicago Blues

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 6, 2011

Da quando, negli anni Settanta, la Hat Hut gli dedicò un'imponente serie di LP (portandolo, ultratrentenne, alla ribalta internazionale), fino alla riapparizione in questi ultimi anni su varie etichette, Joe McPhee è stato un personaggio per lo più appartato con una voce personale che si è espresso soprattutto come strumentista, convinto e originale. Il suo sax, ...

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Gaetano Valli: Suoni & Luoghi

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 6, 2011

Suoni & Luoghi è il programmatico titolo di questo CD di Gaetano Valli, composto di dieci composizioni originali (oltre due standard) dedicate ciascuna a un luogo che le ha ispirate: dall'oasi di Vendicari del primo brano alla Port au Prince terremotata dell'ultimo, passando per Munbay, New York e numerose località del Friuli e della Sicilia, regioni ...

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COR: COR

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 6, 2011

Questo sontuoso lavoro di un trio di musicisti assai eclettici, COR (in portoghese “colore"), dal titolo omonimo, nasce diversi anni fa per iniziativa di Claudio Puntin, in occasione di un festival organizzato al Palazzo dell'Opera Wagneriana “Markgräflichen Opernhaus" di Bayreuth e che, significativamente, si intitolava Grenzüberschreitungen ("Scavalcando i confini"). Dei membri del gruppo, due sono svizzeri ...

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Ben Allison: Action-Refraction

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by AAJ Italy Staff
June 6, 2011

Ha fondato il Jazz Composer Collective, una sorta di laboratorio per la valorizzazione della vena compositiva dei musicisti. Ha licenziato una serie di album che lo hanno portato alla ribalta come contrabbassista di valore assoluto, leader di progetti ad ampio spettro, tutti caratterizzati da una qualità elevata, da una forte progettualità e da un'altrettanto evidente definizione ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: Hotel Du Nord

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by Nic Jones
June 5, 2011

Hotel Du Nord is shot through with heightened sensitivity. In the wake of To Fly To Steal (Intakt, 2010), the group did a series of European tours and this experience of playing together has resulted in heightened musical understanding. The quartet's musical currency--with the original lineup intact--is as informed by Twentieth Century chamber ...