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Mark Alban Lotz: Istanbul Improv Sessions May 5th

Read "Istanbul Improv Sessions May 5th" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 25, 2011

Dutch master flutist Mark Alban Lotz is a true musical nomad, seeming to have played with musicians from all over the world, and feeling free in any musical setting, whether it is solo performance, free or mainstream jazz, contemporary new music or African, Balkan, East-Asian or Indian traditions. Istanbul Improv Sessions May 5th documents highlights of ...

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Joëlle Léandre: Live at the Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon

Read "Live at the Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 24, 2011

Few modern era instrumentalists sojourn into uncharted regions of the musical cosmos with the ingenuity of bassist extraordinaire Joëlle Léandre. Supported by her vast discography as a leader and co-conspirator, Léandre's serious intentions are differentiated by a sincere vision and jubilant demeanor. These attributes repeatedly surface on her recordings. This release is a two-CD gala that ...

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Pascal Schumacher Quartet: Bang My Can

Read "Bang My Can" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 24, 2011

Bang My Can is the Pascal Schumacher Quartet's fifth album, and it finds the band expanding its range as it creates yet more fascinating music. Schumacher, the Quartet's Luxembourg-born leader, is an exceptional vibes player with a sparkling, fluid sound that is by turns romantic, cheeky, and dark. The band has been together in this lineup ...

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Benjamin Drazen: Inner Flights

Read "Inner Flights" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
May 24, 2011

Alto and soprano saxophonist Benjamin Drazen's smashing debut recording as a leader contains all of the essential ingredients for a meaningful mainstream jazz record. The leader's seven original compositions are a diverse, substantial, and pleasantly familiar lot. Drazen and pianist Jon Davis, the disc's primary soloists, play in the moment and think their way through improvisations ...

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Deep Rumba: A Calm in the Fire of Dances

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2011

Anche se Kip Hanrahan si tiene un po' in disparte, è del tutto evidente che la sua mente creativa è il motore vero di questo gruppo denominato Deep Rumba che firma con A Calm in the Fire of Dances il secondo album, dopo l'ottimo This Night Becomes a Rumba registrato e pubblicato nel 1998. A Calm ...

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Mister Mohop and Large Shape: Barockoko

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2011

I Mister Mohop and Large Shape non sono in giro da parecchio. Eppure suonano come dei veterani. Più o meno un anno fa decisero che le loro strade si sarebbero incontrate. Quattro musicisti in cerca di buone vibrazioni da condividere e da diffondere, nel segno del spontaneità e della naturalezza. Hanno scelto la “babele" dei generi, ...

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Swingadelic: The Other Duke

Read "The Other Duke" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
May 24, 2011

Swingadelic has a standing Monday night gig at the New Jersey club Maxwells, which surely makes this band the greatest thing to come out of Hoboken since they built the Lincoln Tunnel. These eleven musicians--a smallish big band--blow an enormous amount of sound out of The Other Duke, a collection of Duke Pearson songs with new ...

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Nguyên Lê: Songs of Freedom

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2011

La fisionomia musicale di Nguyên Lê si è andata concretizzando, nel corso della sua carriera, più per accumulo che per sottrazione. Partito dal trio, vettore per un jazz raffinato e modernissimo, il chitarrista franco-vietnamita ha poi progressivamente ampliato l'orizzonte di riferimento, abbracciando - in un crescendo spesso irresistibile - la musica della sua tradizione d'origine, quella ...

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Daniel Smith: Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!

Read "Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 24, 2011

It's about that sound--that down there, frog-like bellowing encountered on cartoon soundtracks, novelty TV commercials, and that marvelously masculine sound heard in the greatest of orchestral and chamber music repertoire. Rarely is the bassoon heard blowing improvisation in the jazz idiom, athough with the works of Daniel Smith, Paul Hanson and others, that's changing.

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Marco A. Ricci - Mike Del Ferro - Massimo Manzi: Triangular View

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2011

L'idea di un trio “triangolare" non è forse particolarmente originale, ma rende l'idea del tipo di interazione virtuosa messa in atto da questo classico “piano trio". Ne sono membri il pianista Mike Del Ferro, olandese di nascita, italiano d'origine, americano di passaporto, di fatto cosmopolita come attività musicale; il contrabbassista milanese Marco Ricci, formazione classica, frequentazioni ...