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BANN: As You Like

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 28, 2011

Il gruppo BANN mette a confronto due generazioni di musicisti e lo fa con risultati interessanti ben dimostrati da questo primo album, pubblicato dalla etichetta siciliana Jazz Eyes. I nomi sono di assoluto valore, dal saxofonista anglo-canadese Seamus Blake, al chitarrista israeliano Oz Noy, ai due veterani Jay Anderson e Adam Nussbaum, rispettivamente bassista canadese e ...

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John Martin Quartet: Dawning

by Chris May
April 28, 2011

The debut album from London saxophonist John Martin comes with some heavyweight commendations. Flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler, whose music inspired one tune and whose influence courses through the disc, calls it “a lovely album," and saxophonist Iain Ballamy says it is “an honest, cohesive and sophisticated release." Dawning introduces an engaging young saxophonist, in whose music echoes ...

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Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams At Rick's Cafe Americain

Read "Mary Lou Williams At Rick's Cafe Americain" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
April 28, 2011

The second album of this double CD issue was released by Storyville in 1998, under the same title. Valuable enough in its way, featuring pianist Mary Lou Williams three years before her death, playing standards that include one of her own, “What's Your Story, Morning Glory?," originally composed for the Andy Kirk band in the days ...

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Daniele Pasini: Patatuey

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 28, 2011

Flautista, sassofonista e compositore, Daniele Pasini - cagliaritano classe 1975 - ama muoversi con grande libertà nel vasto universo della musica: dopo aver iniziato con il flauto a dieci anni e aver ben presto cominciato a dare concerti in ambito classico, ha fatto esperienze nel mondo del rock, del pop, del minimalismo e del jazz, imbracciando ...

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Jared Gold: All Wrapped Up

Read "All Wrapped Up" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 28, 2011

Jared Gold's fourth album as leader, All Wrapped Up, finds fresh faces joining the organist as he releases his first recording without a guitarist. This is also Gold's first all-originals album--although he shares the writing credits with his band mates, who each contribute a tune. The new lineup and new tunes ensure that this album, and ...

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Audrey Silver: Dream Awhile

Read "Dream Awhile" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 28, 2011

eviews touting a singer's perfect diction are reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (or the Lerner and Lowe 1956 musical and 1964 movie, My Fair Lady), and the plight of Eliza Doolittle to straighten out her coarse Cockney into the Queen's speech). Diction has been a driving force in describing singer Audrey Silver's sophomore recording Dream ...

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Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What

Read "So Beautiful or So What" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 28, 2011

After successful run at self-producing, yielding hits like Graceland (Warner Bros., 1986) and The Rhythm of the Saints (Warner Bros., 1990), Paul Simon reunites with Phil Ramone for So Beautiful or So What, the singer/songwriter's first album since the largely overlooked Surprise (Warner Bros., 2006). Ramone last worked with the singer/songwriter on One Trick Pony (Warner ...

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Lionel Loueke: Mwaliko

Read "Mwaliko" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 28, 2011

Decisamente esile la proposta del beniniano Lionel Loueke (già sodale di Terence Blanchard e Herbie Hancock, fra gli altri) così come ci giunge da questo Mwaliko (in swahili “invito"), pur in possesso di un suo aplomb, una sua coerenza, che di fatto coincidono però con un gusto reiterato per l'effimero, l'ornamentale, l'(artisticamente) impalpabile.La modesta ...

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Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful

by John Kelman
April 27, 2011

Over the course of the past decade, the members of pianist Marcin Wasilewski's trio have been growing in the public eye, first as trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's young Polish quartet on a trio of albums culminating in Lontano (ECM, 2008), and then, in the case of pianist Wasilewski and bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz, through a collaboration with Manu ...

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Lucian Ban - John Hébert: Enesco Re-Imagined

Read "Enesco Re-Imagined" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 27, 2011

È dedicato al violinista e compositore romeno George Enescu [qui Enesco secondo il nome alla francese] questo interessante progetto condiviso dal pianista Lucian Ban - connazionale del compositore - e dal contrabbassista John Hébert [che molti ricorderanno con Andrew Hill e ora, tra gli altri, con Mary Halvorson]. Registrato al festival che ogni due anni viene ...