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Arrive: There Was...

Read "There Was..." reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 20, 2011

A longtime fixture of the fertile Chicago jazz scene, Aram Shelton's relocation to Oakland, California has not diminished the alto saxophonist's presence among his peers in the Windy City. Courtesy of a rigorous touring schedule, Shelton maintains memberships in numerous ensembles, including Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown, the collective ensemble Fast Citizens, and Arrive, his quartet with vibraphonist ...

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Shane Endsley and the Music Band: Then The Other

Read "Then The Other" reviewed by Daniel Lehner

by Daniel Lehner
May 20, 2011

Naming your working ensemble The Music Band might seem like a very tongue in cheek gesture at first. However, Shane Endsley's second release as a leader (and the first record to come out on Kneebody's Low Electrical Records) shows that the versatile and quietly charismatic trumpeter has a sincere interest in playing music, both jazz and ...

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Simon Wyrsch: Raimbow Colors

Read "Raimbow Colors" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2011

Segnatevi questo nome, perché non mancherà di attrarre l'attenzione del pubblico più vasto. Classe '81, Simon Wyrsch è protagonista di un disco davvero ragguardevole nella sua inusuale impalcatura timbrica. Clarinetto e chitarra sono al centro di un percorso avvincente per il modo in cui il quartetto affronta in modo obliquo le policrome linee melodico-ritmiche delle tracce ...

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Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr: Gravity

Read "Gravity" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 20, 2011

Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr, trumpeter and keyboard player respectively, started their recording careers early. They recorded their debut, Remembering Chet (ACT, 2006), under the heading of Young German Jazz, when Julian was 17 years old and Roman was barely 21. Even though the brothers are still in their early and mid-20s the “Young" element of that ...

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SoCorpo: On Becoming

Read "On Becoming" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 20, 2011

SoCorpo's debut is one of those recordings that could easily fly under the radar. Composed of two vocal artists who are based in New York--multi-instrumentalist Sasha Bogdanowitsch, also heard on Meredith Monk's Impermanence (ECM, 2008) , and Uruguay-born Sabrina Lastman, who has also collaborated with Monk. Both of them also partnered previously on Bogdanowitsch's SaReel Project. ...

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Morgenthaler – Roellin: Off Road

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2011

Robert Morgenthaler e Urs Roellin, rispettivamente trombonista e chitarrista, scelgono una via decisamente minimalista per presentare questo loro Off Road. La copertina del libretto è completamente nera, senza alcuna scritta. L'interno è invece completamente bianco, senza alcuna scritta. Nel retro troviamo, bianco su nero, le semplici informazioni coi loro nomi, i titoli dei brani e poco ...

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Alon Nechushtan: Words Beyond

Read "Words Beyond" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 20, 2011

Pianist Alon Nechushtan is in the thick of things, amid a vibrant New York City jazz culture that often spawns deviating tangents and inventive ideologies. Indeed, the pianist reveals astounding technical faculties and a far-reaching approach to composition. Nechushtan's jazz-klezmer band TALAT, amid numerous forays into modern jazz and unconventional settings, intermittently gels to the beat ...

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Special Jazz Duo: Dream Dancing

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2011

Dopo diverse collaborazioni in formazioni allargate (ad esempio nel disco Standard Xfor4Four, Luigi Ferrara e Moreno D'Onofrio si propongono stavolta in duo, puntando sul suono e sull'interplay per reinterpretare con leggerezza e calore una serie di standard, ai quali si aggiungono tre composizioni originali. Ferrara alterna due strumenti molto diversi, l'armonica a bocca al pianoforte, che ...

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Massimo Barbiero - Giovanni Maier: Code Talkers

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 19, 2011

È all'insegna della creazione istantanea questo Code Talkers, l'incontro a due tra Massimo Barbiero e Giovanni Maier, entità musicali ispirate e concrete che si frequentano da un paio di decenni grazie, soprattutto, al comune percorso all'interno degli Enten Eller. Dieci tracce in programma. Dieci schegge di musica create seguendo come linea guida il reciproco ascolto, la ...

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War Duo: La commissione d'ascolto

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 19, 2011

Francesco Cusa è uno di quei musicisti dai quali sai già cosa aspettarti, per la storia personale e artistica. Gli è sufficiente sedersi dietro i tamburi e le pelli per scolpire una materia sonora che rifugge da ogni esotismo. La sua è musica seria ma non seriosa, condita da un tocco di (folle?) ironia e divertissement. ...