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Phil Woods and Bill Mays: Woods & Mays

Read "Woods & Mays" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 3, 2011

Putting two musicians of this caliber in a room and recording the results is a surefire recipe for success. Pianist Bill Mays and saxophone icon Phil Woods have little to prove at this point in their respective careers and their music isn't about defying expectations. Both men, on the contrary, carry the reputations that they do ...

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Bill Carrothers Trio: A Night At the Village Vanguard

Read "A Night At the Village Vanguard" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 3, 2011

The sonic character of New York City's Village Vanguard is one of sound as memory. There is a pillow of pungent warmth and familiarity surrounding the sounds captured that can be heard on the early recordings, like Sonny Rollins' A Night At the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1957), Bill Evans' The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, 1961 ...

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Russ Lossing Trio: Oracle

Read "Oracle" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 3, 2011

There are rolling, wide open spaces in the music of Russ Lossing. Much of this is traversed in the seemingly sprawling beauty of Oracle, an album that meanders in the absorbing colors and textures of what that which the trio offers up for seduction. It is easy to be swept up in the diaphanous gusts of ...

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Splatter: Scraffiti

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2011

Ci sono musiche che - più di altre - sono capaci di costruire ambienti utilizzando la materia sonora come un elemento dello spazio più che del tempo. Realizzano qualcosa di unico, la fine delle tracce non determina mai la fine della percezione uditiva che si espande oltre i confini del tempo su display. E' ciò che ...

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Eugenia Munari: Challenge

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2011

I dodici brani di Challenge mettono in mostra le sfaccettature vocali di Eugenia Munari, vocalist in grado di emozionare l'ascoltatore grazie alla sua duttilità interpretativa che si muove, senza cedimenti e sbavature, dal mainstream elegante e pensoso alla bossa nova più spensierata, fino a percorrere le vie della pop music. In una scaletta stilisticamente e formalmente ...

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Tonight At Noon: To Mingus With Love

Read "To Mingus With Love" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
June 3, 2011

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Charles Mingus has been well and truly flattered. Tonight at Noon, a typically enigmatic free jazz piece written by the legendary bassist/bandleader, went on to become the title of a loving and extremely well-crafted memoir by his wife, Sue. Now, confusingly, it is also the name of ...

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Bastian Weinhold: River Styx

Read "River Styx" reviewed by Warren Allen

by Warren Allen
June 2, 2011

Drummer Bastian Weinhold recorded River Styx in one day in Brooklyn. It's the young drummer's self-funded debut, though he has already developed a name for himself alongside players such as saxophonists Seamus Blake and Dave Liebman, and the results are exceptional, as Weinhold brings together a series of his own endlessly intriguing charts with a quintet ...

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Otherways and Free Space: Life Amid the Artefacts

Read "Life Amid the Artefacts" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 2, 2011

The music of Otherways and Free Space unfurls throughout Life Among the Artefacts at a consistently high crest of improvisation during unselfconscious, unguarded moments when the musicians were, quite simply, being extensions of their instruments. They were forces of nature and allowed the music to tumble freely, incorporating songs which had internal combustion mechanisms that were ...

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Roseanna Vitro: The Music of Randy Newman

Read "The Music of Randy Newman" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 2, 2011

Randy Newman is an American treasure hidden in plain sight. An Academy and Grammy Award-winning soundtrack composer since the 1980s, a decade earlier, Newman established himself as a preeminent American song writer with Randy Newman (Reprise, 1968), 12 Songs (Reprise, 1970), and Sail Away (Reprise, 1972), and his songs have been covered by everyone from Three ...

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Pablo: Here I Am

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 2, 2011

Bel coraggio questi svizzeri. È ottimo il lavoro che sta portando avanti l'etichetta Unit Records. Escono fuori veri e propri talenti che proprio non t'aspetti. La ricetta? Semplice: non di solo jazz si vive, ma anche di incroci musicali - i più disparati - che stanno caratterizzando questa vera e propria “sfornata" di musicisti in cerca ...