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Michel Reis: Point Of No Return

Read "Point Of No Return" reviewed by Wilbert Sostre

by Wilbert Sostre
April 15, 2011

The trio on Michel Reis' Point Of No Return is a testament to the international character of jazz music, especially in the 21th century. A pianist/composer from Luxemburg, Reis studied jazz performance and composition at Berklee College of Music. Adam Cruz is a Latin American drummer, born in New York, whose experience includes playing with Chick ...

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Yo Yo Mundi: Munfrâ

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 14, 2011

Il vento del Monferrato è avvolgente e profumato, magico e misterioso. Porta con sé di tutto. “È imbastardito da un soffio di mare che poco prima avrà ingravidato la luna piena" ("Na bèla còrba ed nìule"). È capace di raccogliere le perturbazioni che giungono dal Medio Oriente e si “integrano" in questo splendido territorio collinare tenuto ...

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The Bill Dixon Orchestra: Intents And Purposes

Read "Intents And Purposes" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
April 14, 2011

Intents And Purposes has long been revered as Bill Dixon's singular masterpiece. Out of print for years, the late trumpet innovator's magnum opus has been lovingly remastered and reissued on CD, by International Phonograph Inc., in a deluxe mini-LP styled package that replicates the original 1967 issue, providing an important opportunity to reevaluate this seminal work. ...

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Michael Dease: Grace

Read "Grace" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 14, 2011

È facile scrivere e fare una sintesi di quello che si ascolta su questa nuova produzione di John Lee per la sua Jazz Legacy Productions: un mainstream di alto livello interpretato da uno dei migliori trombonisti americani (che su “Four" di Miles Davis si diverte a suonare il sax tenore). Michael Dease è un musicista di ...

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Susie Meissner: I’m Confessin’

Read "I’m Confessin’" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 14, 2011

On vocalist Susie Meissner's previous recording, I'll Remember April (Self Produced, 2008), the singer staked out the center of the middle of the road stylistically. Her repertoire was from the most popular sections of The Great American Songbook, dispatched tastefully in her well-balanced high alto. Dedicated to the melody, Meissner is clearly not one given to ...

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George Haslam: Once Upon a Time in Argentina

Read "Once Upon a Time in Argentina" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 14, 2011

Haslam e l'Argentina costituiscono i punti di contatto fra questi due CD, di fatto espressione di progetti ben distinti: il sassofonista britannico compare in entrambi con due quartetti diversi, e ne è il deus ex machina; in Argentina i lavori sono stati registrati e argentini sono tutti i musicisti che affiancano Haslam. Tutto il resto, come ...

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Noah Haidu: Slipstream

Read "Slipstream" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 14, 2011

Slipstream is the debut from New York-based pianist/writer Noah Haidu. Featuring an exceptionally talented quintet of musicians, it's a striking first album, full of superb, straight-ahead jazz. Haidu's compositions--he wrote all but one of the tunes--are strong on melody and characterized by a gentle and soulful swing. As a pianist, Haidu sounds equally ...

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Cathrine Legardh / Sigurdur Flosason: Land And Sky

Read "Land And Sky" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
April 14, 2011

A bilingual double album, liable to confirm common prejudices concerning Scandinavians: that they are doomy, brooding folks, given to staring at candles on dark winter nights, while meditating on the quintessential meaninglessness of life. To quote Cathrine Legardh's text for “Pumpkin": When life steps into character I am just a feather in a ...

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Marco De Gennaro: Ike

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 14, 2011

Marco De Gennaro è un giovane pianista e compositore salernitano - classe '89, diplomato con il massimo dei voti al Conservatorio G. Martucci - che con gli otto brani originali di Ike conosce il suo debutto discografico alla guida di un quartetto affiatato. De Gennaro mette in mostra una tecnica pianistica pulita ed elegante, e le ...

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Shimrit Shoshan: Keep It Movin’

Read "Keep It Movin’" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 14, 2011

Paying the proverbial musical dues is part and parcel of a musician's evolution, and an unavoidable experience that can be as trying as it can be rewarding. The common jazz lore takes for granted that doing so in New York puts a musician in an altogether singular phylum in the jazz evolutionary tree. Pianist/composer Shimrit Shoshan ...