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Alessandro Bosetti: Royals
by Mark Corroto
Musician/sound artist Alessandro Bosetti continues to explore the connection between speech and music, with yet another set of speech loop recordings. On Royals, like on his previous discs--Her Name (Crouton, 2007) and Exposé (Die Schachtel, 2007)--he orchestrates the tone, pitch and cadence of a speaker, talking or reading text. Much like pianist Jason Moran ...
BANN: As You Like
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What happens when you put four distinct voices--each one equally powerful--together in an ensemble? The chance that they will pull in different directions is quite real. The fact that the repertoire is as exciting as it is challenging is also quite the lure to fly in the face of convention, even if the rest of the ...
Bill Charlap - Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait
by AAJ Italy Staff
Due pianisti ripresi in un incontro perfetto. Certo, essere marito e moglie aiuta a raggiungere un'intesa così elevata e la maestria di entrambi si trasforma in sintesi poetica. Renee Rosnes e Bill Charlap non hanno ricevuto in Italia la dovuta attenzione, malgrado i molti dischi registrati per la Blue Note e le collaborazioni prestigiose, eppure in ...
Sean Smith Quartet: Trust
by Dan Bilawsky
Trust is a key element in any successful relationship. Spouses have to trust one another in their day-to-day lives and children have to trust that their parents will be there for them, no matter what happens. Trust between close friends is often a given and, while we don't always think about it, trust between band mates ...
Luca Luciano: Partenope
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ecco una sorprendente rivelazione! Chi è Luca Luciano? Non più giovanissimo, il compositore e clarinettista Luciano si è diplomato al Conservatorio di Salerno; ha esordito in Italia, ma è poi cresciuto professionalmente in Inghilterra dove tuttora vive e lavora in ambito concertistico e didattico. In questo suo quarto Cd (tutti hanno purtroppo sofferto di un'insufficiente promozione ...
Aimee Nolte & Hideaki Tokunaga: Just Us
by Jack Bowers
This genial album by singer/pianist Aimee Nolte and guitarist Hideaki Tokunaga consists of eleven original compositions, all of them written or co-written by Nolte. While there are snippets of jazz from time to time, they are more peripheral than essential. The spotlight is most often on Nolte's voice, which is clear and steady but otherwise unexceptional. ...
Sheryl Bailey: For All Those Living
by Nic Jones
In the past, guitarist Sheryl Bailey has been an embodiment of versatility through her work with bassist Richard Bona, and with David Krakauer's klezmer ensemble. She now has another strain of music in her bag with this program of straight-ahead jazz guitar. Both Pat Martino and Wes Montgomery can be cited as reference points for this ...
Walter Beltrami: Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo
by Jerry D'Souza
Guitarist Walter Beltrami has good reason for calling this CD Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo. It's a disorder that emanates in the inner ear and results in a spinning sensation caused by changes in body posture. For him, it lasted six months and disappeared as suddenly as it came. Beltrami wrote many of the compositions on this record ...
Amy Briggs: Tangos for Piano
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Revisiting the tango can be one of the most daunting tasks for any musician performing and recording in music today. But that hardly seems to be the case for Amy Briggs, pianist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW ensemble. Briggs has an enviable reputation as one of the leading interpreters of living composers and has done ...
Thomas Marriott: Constraints & Liberations
by Greg Simmons
Listening to Thomas Marriott's Constraints & Liberations, two things are abundantly clear: Marriott spent some serious time studying Miles Davis' second great quintet; and, his own voice on trumpet is developed well enough to make it sound like a strong, easily recognizable influence, but not plagiarism. Naturally, favorable comparison to the one of the greatest standing ...
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