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Cinzia Spata: Into the Moment

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2011

Sul versante del canto jazz femminile, rispetto alla moltitudine d'interpreti che puntano più sul glamour che sulle doti, ogni tanto appare un disco di valore. Che la protagonista sia Cinzia Spata non è affatto una sorpresa, anche se le occasioni per ascoltarla qui in Italia non sono molte ed i suoi dischi sono pochi. L'ultimo risale ...

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Alec Spiegelman / Lefteris Kordis / Thor Thorvaldsson: Bebop Trio

Read "Bebop Trio" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 10, 2011

The theme of “walk, don't run" occurs throughout the entirety of Bebop Trio, a suite of improvisations on the sometimes pell-mell music of Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano, Elmo Hope, Bud Powell, George Shearing and Duke Ellington. Played by three accommodating and adaptive musicians, the familiar and frenetic becomes casual and conversant. Where Powell's “Celia" ...

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Ohad Talmor: Newsreel

Read "Newsreel" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
May 10, 2011

Tenor saxophonist Ohad Talmor was born in Israel, grew up in Switzerland, and now lives in America. Talmor started out on piano before switching to the saxophone while in the US. Over the years, he has assembled an impressive list of band associations. In Switzerland he co-founded Zounds Collective with trumpeter Carlos Baumann to experiment with ...

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Ahmad Jamal: Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge & Spotlite Club Performances

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2011

Districarsi in queste tre ore e mezza abbondanti di musica non è cosa agevole, per il discografo. Le due sessions del titolo (che sono poi quattro, in quanto a performance) risalgono al 16 e 17 gennaio 1958 (al Pershing Lounge di Chicago: tutto il primo CD, ultimo brano escluso) e al 5 e 6 settembre dello ...

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Elvin Bishop: Elvin Bishop’s Raisin’ Hell Revue

Read "Elvin Bishop’s Raisin’ Hell Revue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 10, 2011

Guitarist and singer Elvin Bishop enjoyed his greatest commercial success with the 1976 single “Fooled Around and Fell in Love" (from 1975's Struttin' My Stuff (Capricorn)). His importance to the development of classic rock, as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the 1960s, is often overshadowed by that AM/FM confection as are his ...

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Marcello Tonolo Trio: Lazy Afternoon

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2011

Otto standard che più standard non si può ed un classico piano trio che più classico non si può. C'è di che mandare in solluchero gli amanti del cosiddetto mainstream e al contrario far arricciare il naso chi cerca nuove visioni e prospettive di una musica per antonomasia contaminata ed in perenne evoluzione. Ma c'è anche ...

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Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 9, 2011

«Una caratteristica importante della maggior parte dei gruppi nella libera improvvisazione è la brevità della loro esistenza. È forse ovvio che quasi tutte le collaborazioni casuali, il tipo più comune di raggruppamento nella libera improvvisazione, tendano a esaurire rapidamente le aree in cui i componenti provano un reciproco interesse, considerando quindi soddisfatte le loro comuni ambizioni. ...

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Steve Lacy: School Days

Read "School Days" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
May 9, 2011

Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's School Days has had a long and checkered release history. Recorded live in New York in March 1963, it was first issued on vinyl by Emanem in 1975 and later reissued on QED, an Emanem pseudonym. It first appeared on CD on Hat Art in 1994, and again on Hatology in 2003. ...

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Charles Tyler: Eastern Man Alone

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 9, 2011

Charles Tyler fa parte di quella schiera di musicisti che hanno partecipato alla rivoluzione della New Thing senza assurgere alla statura di eroi o leggendari protagonisti, ma lavorando piuttosto nell'ombra o a fianco di stelle di prima grandezza. Come successe al nostro, che incontrò Albert Ayler a Cleveland lo seguì fino a New York entrando nella ...

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Claire Ritter: The Streams Of Pearls Project

Read "The Streams Of Pearls Project" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 9, 2011

Claire Ritter's tenth album, The Stream Of Pearls Project, is inspired by water. More accurately, it's inspired by waters: rivers, lakes, brooks, ponds, cascades and their attendant beaches and shorelines. Ritter began the work in 2006 and over the next four years her travels took her to many different places across North America. The result is ...