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Anna Sini: Sound of Night

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 13, 2011

Capita di rado di imbattersi in dischi d'esordio così riusciti come quello della vocalist Anna Sini. Grazie anche al contributo di un quintetto di prim'ordine, la leader si destreggia meravigliosamente a suo agio in un repertorio non facile, che incontra l'Africa e Coltrane, Bill Evans e i Beatles. Ogni brano è (ri)forgiato dalla sua voce duttile ...

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Matthew Halsall: On The Go

Read "On The Go" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 13, 2011

Sometimes it's best to get straight to the point, to stop beating around the bush and avoid going round in circles. This is one of those times. On The Go is superb, a finely-crafted, emotionally and spiritually engaging work that stands comparison with anything the jazz world currently has to offer, and with plenty of the ...

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Ken Peplowski: In Search Of ...

Read "In Search Of ..." reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 13, 2011

The splenetic and hard-nosed clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman admired tenor saxophonist Ken Peplowski enough to hire the younger musician on for his last performing band, during the mid-1980s. But the Cleveland, Ohio-born and bred Peplowski's main ax was, in fact, the clarinet. He spent a good part of his early career playing in Polish polka bands, and ...

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Joelle Leandre - Nicole Mitchell - Dylan Van Der Schyff: Before After

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 13, 2011

Registrato al Festival di Vancouver del 2009, questo incontro tra tre forti personalità della scena impro richiede, come è intuibile, anche all'ascoltatore le giuste sintonie. Ma incuriosisce sin dalle prime note l'interazione tra il contrabbasso di Joëlle Léandre, i flauti di Nicole Mitchell e le percussioni di Dylan Van Der Schyff, artisti con percorsi personali molto ...

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Don "Sugar Cane" Harris: Cup Full of Dreams

Read "Cup Full of Dreams" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 13, 2011

While Sugar Cane's Got the Blues (MPS, 1972; Reissued Promising Music, 2008), teamed the violinist with Europeans including Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal, German keyboardist Wolfgang Dauner and British (though, with a life-changing accident looming, not for long) drummer Robert Wyatt, Cup Full of Dreams finds Don “Sugar Cane" Harris back on American turf, with a group ...

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The Thrust: Little Wonder

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 13, 2011

Secondo lavoro in studio per i The Thrust, trio cha ha nel proprio modo compositivo l'unione di sonorità elettroniche ed acustiche, che in questa occasione si arricchisce della presenza di molti ospiti, tra i quali spicca quella di Stefano Di Battista. Il loro Little Wonder prende il nome dall'unica cover in scaletta, un brano tra i ...

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Eddie Mendenhall: Cosine Meets Tangent

Read "Cosine Meets Tangent" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 13, 2011

Pianist/composer Eddie Mendenhall is a young music professor at Monterey Peninsula College, and serves as an instructor at the renowned Monterey Jazz Festival Summer Jazz Camp. As a music professional, Mendenhall leads his own uncommon quartet on Cosine Meets Tangent, his debut as leader, featuring the combination of piano and vibes as lead instruments. Mendenhall's professional ...

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Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum

Read "Officium Novum" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
April 13, 2011

Officium (ECM, 1993) paired renowned Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek with The Hilliard ensemble--a vocal group with a formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music--playing a riveting and gorgeous set of compositions that were 500 years old. This unusual pairing proved to be a match made in heaven, as the subtle and wistful ...

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Valerio Della Fonte: Nevertheless

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 13, 2011

Il secondo disco da leader di Valerio Della Fonte vede ancora una volta protagonista un ospite americano. Dopo il sassofonista Jimmy Greene che aveva partecipato alla registrazione di Per un istante del 2005 è ora la volta del batterista Willie Jones III, strumentista notevole che, oltre a guidare band proprie, ha collraborato con, tra gli altri, ...

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Undivided: Passion

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 12, 2011

A capo del quartetto Undivided il clarinettista polacco Waclaw Zimpel, al suo quarto CD per la Multikulti, firma un disco a programma dedicato alle tappe della Passione di Cristo e più in generale al tema di una condivisa sofferenza umana. “Il mio intento è stato quello di creare una musica che invita a riflettere sul tema ...