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Amato Jazz Trio: Well
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nuovo, luminoso, disco del trio dei fratelli Amato, musicisti di Canicattini Bagni, nell'entroterra siracusano, a due anni di distanza del bellissimo Time Pieces for Piano. Il lavoro ha forte intensità dinamica, è attraversato da una marcata vena blues e, attorno ai temi, si struttura con grande libertà improvvisativa. I tre fratelli si confermano musicisti sontuosi: Elio ...
Sam Trapchak's Put Together Funny: Lollipopocalypse
by Mark F. Turner
Bassist Sam Trapchak's debut, Lollipopocalypse, is inspired by a character who experiences some very unsavory candy in the Toni Morrison novel Song of Solomon. But Trapchak and his curiously named group, Put Together Funny, dish out some palatable music with a release that is equally accessible and stimulating. Replete with infectious melodies, risk-taking compositions, and cohesive ...
Ariel Shibolet / Nori Jacoby: Scenes From An Ideal Marriage
by Nic Jones
Having existed for decades, free improvisation can be argued to have settled into a kind of routine regardless of the music's underlying abstraction. The soprano sax has become readily associated with the music thanks to the efforts of such pioneers as Steve Lacy, Evan Parker and Trevor Watts. Ariel Shibolet seems only too aware of this, ...
Call & Response & Friends: Call & Response & Friends
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dottie Grossman, moglie di Richard, grande pianista prematuramente scomparso nel 1992, è poetessa la cui prosa Allen Ginsberg ha definito: “chiara, particolare, personale, divertente, selvaggia, curiosa e lucida". Michael Vlatkovich è trombonista, compositore, arrangiatore leader di alcuni quotati ensemble e collaboratore ad ampio spettro artistico, da Rova Saxophone Quartet a Bryan Adams, da Gerry Hemingway a ...
Agustí Fernández / Barry Guy / Ramón López: Morning Glory
by Mark Corroto
In what could easily mistaken for a release on the ECM label, Morning Glory inhabits that crisp minimalist style so familiar to producer Manfred Eicher. Surprisingly enough, this studio recording, with bonus Live In New York disc, is delivered by three of today's most zealous improvisers and outcats. Formed in 2005, the trio's previous ...
Alessio Menconi - Aldo Romano - Luca Mannutza: Adventures Trio
by AAJ Italy Staff
La chitarra elettrica di Alessio Menconi trova un ulteriore punto d'ispirazione espressiva e di complicità tecnica nell'incontro in trio con il batterista Aldo Romano e con il pianista Luca Mannutza, in questo episodio anche all'Hammond, nell'album, firmato Abeat Adventures Trio. Il lavoro si sviluppa attraverso nove originali - suddivisi tra i titolari del progetto - e ...
Roberto Magris Quintet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
For one who left us far too soon (he was shot to death at age 33), Edward Lee Morgan left quite an extensive legacy as a trumpeter, composer and recording artist. In paying tribute to Morgan, pianist Roberto Magris has a splendid idea. What he does not have, of course, is Lee Morgan or any of ...
Omar Sosa: Calma
by AAJ Italy Staff
Calma. Un titolo così non lascia scampo riguardo le aspettative che un ascoltatore può riservare al nuovo lavoro in piano solo - il quinto nella sua discografia - di Omar Sosa, pianista che, una volta ancora, ribadisce la grandezza del suo essere artista infinitamente ispirato e sensibile. Tredici passaggi che compenetrano l'uno dentro l'altro, in una ...
Fred Frith: Clearing Customs
by Nic Jones
Over the decades of his solo career, Fred Frith's music has grown more reflective of the range of his musical interests. As well as being an improviser of significance he has also shown an interest in a diversity of folk musics, with initial signs showing up already, in his work of the late 1970s.
Don Sebesky: Giant Box
by Dan Bilawsky
It's a bit bizarre to find an album called Giant Box in a small cardboard case, or as a download lacking physical form, but times change. When Don Sebesky's grand musical statement on CTI hit the marketplace in 1973, it came in a classical-type record box, befitting the stature of the music. Opinions ...
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