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Chris Dahlgren & Lexicon: Mystic Maze

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2011

Il bassista newyorkese Chris Dahlgren mette assieme un bel quintetto denominato Lexicon e si avventura in territori piuttosto inconsueti che mettono in risalto la dimensione anche caricaturale della musica. Ma lo fa senza spingere affatto sulla componente derisiva spesso associata alla caricatura e si limita a prendere atto di un modo di comunicare che privilegia i ...

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Mike Westbrook Orchestra: The Cortege

Read "The Cortege" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 29, 2011

At its richest, pianist/composer Mike Westbrook's work is to jazz what grand opera, in the classical world, is to chamber music. The Cortege is Westbrook at his richest, leading a 17-piece orchestra through an ambitious and brilliantly realized suite, loosely themed around the idea of a funeral procession and its after-party. Thirty years after its first ...

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DJ Sniff: EP

by John Eyles
April 29, 2011

EP is a fascinating disc on several levels. Its title is not short for “extended play"---how many people today remember those?--but for Psi proprietor Evan Parker. The disc is an elaborate hommage to Parker. Its front cover photograph shows DJ Sniff holding up an LP; close inspection of its label reveals that it is Parker's Monoceros ...

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Tommaso Starace: Blood & Champagne

Read "Blood & Champagne" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2011

Con un titolo piuttosto eloquente ed una foto di copertina “esplosiva" Tommaso Starace presenta il quarto album da leader, questa volta insieme ad una ritmica inglese di alto livello, caratterizzata dalla presenza dell'intringante basso elettrico di Laurence Cottle. Fra note veloci, come se fosse una chitarra, e un più ortodosso uso in funzione di accompagnamento, Cottle ...

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Jason Parker Quartet: Five Leaves Left

Read "Five Leaves Left" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
April 29, 2011

For its fourth album, the Jason Parker Quartet takes a sharp departure from its previous three efforts. Rather than simply cutting another solid straight-ahead quartet date, trumpeter Parker has added vocalist Michele Khazak, and multi-woodwind blower Cynthia Mullis, to reinterpret an entire folk-pop album: Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left (Island Records, 1969). Despite being far outside ...

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Agogic: Agogic

by Jerry D'Souza
April 29, 2011

Table and Chairs music is a new label dedicated to harnessing Seattle's rich music legacy. Its first release, Agogic, is the eponymous debut featuring trumpeter Cuong Vu and saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo. D'Angelo cast his dye as an alto saxophonist in Seattle before moving to New York, and has played with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Erik Friedlander, among ...

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Patrick Bebelaar - Michel Godard: Dedications

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2011

Rara formula quella del duo pianoforte-tuba! La propongono, con successo, Patrick Bebelaar e Michel Godard (quest'ultimo anche al serpente e al basso elettrico in qualche traccia..), sentendosi liberi di affrontare materiale eterogeneo, più come esercizio di stile dunque che con una forte idea programmatica. Dedications è un disco dal quale traspare la maestosità della lezione di ...

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Gretchen Parlato: The Lost And Found

Read "The Lost And Found" reviewed by Wilbert Sostre

by Wilbert Sostre
April 29, 2011

Despite being completely different singers, there's a lot to connect Gretchen Parlato with the legendary Billie Holiday. Holiday was a singer with a phrasing deeply rooted in the blues, while Parlato is a jazz singer with the modern influences of R&B and pop music, but what draws them together is the uniqueness of their respective styles. ...

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Maxfield Gast: Side by Side

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2011

Dopo l'ultima incisione orientata in ambito electro-funk (Eat Your Beats) il sassofonista di Filadelfia cambia radicalmente direzione riaffermando la sua piena identità jazzistica con un album dal rigore esemplare: un trio jazz legato alle lezioni di Shorter e Coltrane ed ai modelli di un mainstream avanzato. Il tutto espresso con profondo senso della forma, essenzialità ed ...

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Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 28, 2011

Curtis Fuller è stato uno dei maestri del trombone moderno: il suo contributo a Blue Train è storia, come la partecipazione ai Jazz Messengers di Art Blakey (quando nel gruppo militavano Wayne Shorter e Freddie Hubbard) e al Jazztet di Benny Golson e Art Farmer. Da tempo non gode più di contratti con etichette prestigiose, ma ...