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Seamus Blake Quintet: Live At Smalls
by Bruce Lindsay
Recorded at the Greenwich Village club on August 31st and September 1st 2009, Live At Smalls showcases the inventive sound of English-born, Canadian-raised and New York-based Seamus Blake. The tenor saxophonist's career to date includes membership in the Mingus Big Band, BANN and the Victor Lewis Quintet, as well as his own combos. Live At Smalls ...
Nicola Ratti: 220 Tones
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il milanese Nicola Ratti è una delle figure più interessanti della scena sperimentale di questi ultimi anni, grazie alla capacità di esplorare i linguaggi con una curiosità e una prospettiva che non danno mai per scontato l'esito espressivo. Chitarrista nei Ronin di Bruno Dorella, ma anche attivo in progetti con Attila Faravelli o Giuseppe Ielasi, Ratti ...
KLANG: Other Doors
by Troy Collins
Though he has long admired the small combo recordings of legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, Chicago-based clarinetist James Falzone never intended to record a tribute to the revered King of Swing. As a former student of modern composition at the New England Conservatory with a strong presence in Chicago's fertile free-improvisation scene, Falzone assumed his youthful gigs ...
Eldar Djangirov: Three Stories
by Dan Bilawsky
The “child prodigy" tag can be a blessing or a curse. Some people who are labeled in such a manner spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to a reputation that was forced upon them at an early age, while others simply mature and grow into themselves, ultimately capitalizing on the attention they ...
Michael Schiefel - Carsten Daerr - Miklòs Lukacs - Matyas Szandai: Gondellied in the Sahara
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' una voce giovane, che sembra di un ragazzino, quella che fuoriesce dalle tracce di Gondellied in the Sahara. Ha un effetto alquanto straniante l'"eterodossa" intonazione canora di Michael Schiefel, che ha una funzione sia narrativa (testo) che strumentale (gorgoglii, vocalizzi). La musica tende costantemente a volare - o meglio navigare - su umori di fantasie ...
Ljubojna: Ljubojna in Life
by Nenad Georgievski
As a band Ljubojna is a sum of many parts. While folk music is a prominent ingredient in its music, so, too, are jazz, pop, hip-hop, jungle and other forms; for this septet, the folk background is merely just another aspect of its musical Esperanto. All of the musos are more than able, prolific and have ...
Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta: Tirtha
by AAJ Italy Staff
In Tirtha prevale il jazz o la musica indiana? La domanda è oziosa; il CD appartiene infatti a una lunga tradizione di incrocio fra le due culture, e non solo, di cui le esperienze di John McLaughlin da quarant'anni a questa parte hanno costituito uno dei precedenti più noti. Ma da quei precedenti questo gruppo si ...
The Dave Sterner Quintet: Sidetracked
by Matt Marshall
While this sophomore effort from saxophonist Dave Sterner and his quintet is something of an excursion, bulleting the boys out of their home base in Cleveland to romp in Southern musical locales like New Orleans and the Caribbean Islands, Sterner hardly sounds sidetracked. That is, his intentions seem clear, his hand steady at the wheel--no careless ...
Julia Hulsmann Trio: Imprint
by John Kelman
Longevity is tough to maintain, in a time when artists largely need to work with a variety of projects to make a living, but there are increasing (and encouraging) signs of the value placed on chemistry and the kind of collective voice that evolves naturally, over time. German pianist Julia Hülsmann has maintained the same trio ...
Margo Leighton & Tim Nikolsky: Redemption
by Ian Patterson
Redemption is the songwriting collaboration of two Melbourne-based musicians, vocalist Margot Leighton and guitarist Tim Nikolsky. Essentially a vehicle for Leighton's honey-toned voice, the quintet interprets 14 originals, which cover a range of styles from Latin and soul, to funk, ballad, R&B, and a slice of the Aussie equivalent of Americana. Leighton and Nikolsky certainly don't ...
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