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Travis Reuter: Rotational Templates

Read "Rotational Templates" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 2011

Influences by contemporary classical composers within progressive-jazz frameworks do not always yield fruitful results, but New York City-based guitarist Travis Reuter goes against the grain on the exhilarating Rotational Templates. An impressionable young composer and guitarist, Reuter divulges a conspicuous approach to hybrid genres as if it were meant to be. The band was ...

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Ralph Alessi and This Against That: Wiry Strong

Read "Wiry Strong" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 31, 2011

Born out of the jazz laboratory of Brooklyn's M-Base experiments of the 1990s, trumpeter Ralph Alessi has always seemed to be a farouche player. Never hankering for the spotlight, he always seems satisfied to turn in solid deliberate efforts that don't court flattery. Maybe it is his subtle nature, but what some might have missed has ...

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David S. Ware / Cooper-Moore / William Parker / Muhammad Ali: Planetary Unknown

Read "Planetary Unknown" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 31, 2011

Saxophone giant David S. Ware's comeback following a kidney transplant continues apace, this time within a new super group comprising some of the brighter magnitude bodies in the free jazz firmament. Ware's post-op output includes potent showings in Saturnian (Aum Fidelity, 2009) and Onecept (Aum Fidelity, 2010) but Planetary Unknown represents the strongest achievement yet. In ...

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Vittorio Sabelli: One Way

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 31, 2011

Lavoro atipico questo One Way del clarinettista e compositore molisano Vittorio Sabelli. Costruito su otto brani distinti in tre suite, ognuna delle quali indica una diversa “via," mescola con una certa libertà e un'indubbia originalità stilemi classici e jazz, aspetti melodici e momenti più astratti. La particolarità del disco si percepisce fin dal passaggio dalla prima ...

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Louis Moholo-Moholo / Dudu Pukwana / Johnny Dyani / Frank Wright: Spiritual Knowledge And Grace

Read "Spiritual Knowledge And Grace" reviewed by Sid Smith

by Sid Smith
May 31, 2011

Accidents are part and parcel of any kind of improvised music. Such occurrences can be fickle things with a capacity to make or break a situation. So, when Chris McGregor was prevented from joining the first night of a Dutch tour by The Blue Notes in 1979, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Dudu Pukwana and Johnny Dyani embraced the ...

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Mark Rapp's Melting Pot: Good Eats

Read "Good Eats" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 31, 2011

Good Eats could reference trumpeter Mark Rapp's New Orleans heritage, where po-boys, seasoned craw fish, and jambalaya reign supreme. Add some Big Easy-style funk and there is a perfect party setting that provides credence to the city that care forgot adage. Rapp pays homage to alto sax titan Lou Donaldson, who incorporated blues, soul, and funk ...

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Andrei Kondakov / Igor Butman / Eddie Gomez / Lenny White: Blues for 4

Read "Blues for 4" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
May 31, 2011

Russian music has a mile-wide streak of tragedy and sorrow running through it. If Americans hadn't invented it first, the blues could have been born on the banks of the Volga River, instead of the Mississippi. But it wasn't, so the closest thing to seeing how that might have turned out is Blues for 4, featuring ...

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Sundar: What a Dream I Had...

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 31, 2011

Oltre alle tante cantanti in giro per i palcoscenici c'è pure qualche collega maschio che prova a attirare su di sè l'attenzione dei riflettori. Prendiamo ad esempio Sundar, artista di origine indiana cresciuto in Canada, che con una raccolta di standards si presenta all'attenzione del pubblico. In What a Dream I Had... troviamo un mix di ...

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Max Ionata Quartetto feat. Fabrizio Bosso: Dieci

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 30, 2011

Max Ionata celebra il decennale di carriera con un nuovo album da leader, per l'appunto intitolato Dieci, alla guida di un quartetto completato da musicisti di assoluta levatura, come Luca Mannutza, Nicola Angelucci, Nicola Muresu e l'ospite Fabrizio Bosso. L'album, dedicato alla memoria di Gianni Basso, si compone di otto brani - tutti originali tranne “Who ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 30, 2011

I lettori più affezionati dovrebbero sapere di quale smodata considerazione godano i Mostly Other People Do the Killing su queste pagine virtuali. Tre lunghi anni sono passati da quando l'epifanico Shamokin!!! ne segnalò la rumorosa presenza sul pianeta-jazz; due dall'altrettanto entusiasmante This Is Our Moosic. Da allora la fama del quartetto è doverosamente cresciuta. Moppa Elliott ...