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David Smith: Anticipation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se prima erano gli europei ad ispirarsi agli americani, ora gli americani hanno iniziato ad ispirarsi al jazz fatto in Europa, forse ispirati da un certo modo di prendere a prestito delle cose al di fuori della propria tradizione, in quello che è il mondo globalizzato, assimilandole e trasformandole con la propria cultura. È quello che ...
Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy: United Front: Brass Ecstasy At Newport
by Mark Corroto
Brass bands, like wild animals are best viewed in their native habitats. Watching a lion on the savanna is a much different experience than seeing it caged in a zoo. Likewise, hearing Dave Douglas' Brass Ecstasy live is superior to any studio recording. Not that the band's Spirit Moves (Greenleaf, 2009) was a subpar Douglas recording; ...
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: The Sesjun Radio Shows
by Dan McClenaghan
The old and irksome “but is it jazz" argument has probably never been brought into play when it comes to drummer/bandleader Art Blakey (1919-1990) and his ever-changing line-up of Jazz Messengers. The music Blakey and his usually young players made was most certainly jazz, of the hard bop, hard-charging variety--brash and brightly hued, and joyously swinging. ...
Franco D'Andrea Quartet: Sorapis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sorapis è un imponente massiccio dolomitico che si erge a guardiano dello splendido lago di Misurina, nelle cui acque riflette tutta la propria austera maestosità. La musica contenuta in Sorapis è come l'omonimo gruppo dolomitico: maestosa, ricca di storia, splendente, cangiante nelle forme e nei colori, sorprendente nel suo sviluppo, sicuro punto di riferimento per chiunque ...
Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Was Delfeayo Marsalis undertaking a task too challenging when he recorded music from one of Duke Ellington's most beloved albums to make Sweet Thunder? Gunther Schuller offers a doctrine that seems to suggest this has been so. Apparently the size and composition of the ensemble lead to this mishap. Would it have been remiss, to replicate ...
Giovanni Guidi: We Don’t Live Here Anymore
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un intimismo naif venato di sottile nostalgia, un senso armonico potente, ma anche una capacità di superare con personalità la semplice padronanza del linguaggio jazzistico sono alcuni dei caratteri salienti di Giovanni Guidi, uno dei protagonisti più accreditati della nuova scena del jazz italiano. In questo nuovo disco lo troviamo alle prese con dieci belle composizioni ...
Peter Erskine / Bob Mintzer / Darek Oles / Alan Pasqua: Standards 2, Movie Music
by Edward Blanco
Standards hold a particular fascination for drummer Peter Erskine, as initiated through his Grammy-nominated Standards(Fuzzy Music, 2008). Unlike that first album--comprised primarily of old jazz standards--Standards 2, Movie Music focuses on songs that are considered standards from the realm of Hollywood movies. Featuring music from Gone With The Wind (1939), considered by many to be one ...
Tigran Hamasyan: A Fable
by Charles Walker
The young, Armenian-born pianist Tigran Hamasyan possesses an almost intimidating virtuosity, a style that owes as much to Art Tatum's two-handed volubility and the sweeping refinement of Impressionist composers as it does to the spiraling, East-meets-West melodies of his homeland. Winner of the 2006 Thelonious Monk Institute's piano competition, New Era (2008, Nocturne) found Hamasyan settling ...
Kairos 4tet: Statement Of Intent
by Bruce Lindsay
Two years on from its debut, Kairos Moment (Kairos, 2009), Kairos 4tet's Statement Of Intent categorically proves that the critical applause granted to its first album was well-deserved. Statement Of Intent is full of energy, inventiveness and melody, demonstrating a maturing musical sensibility, and placing the band fairly and squarely in the top flight of the ...
Harriet Tubman: Ascension
by Mark Corroto
It has been forty-six years since John Coltrane took his expanded ensemble into a studio to record Ascension (Impulse!, 1965), and many believe the jazz world has yet to come to grips with its significance and meaning. It has only been eleven years since the power trio Harriet Tubman, expanded into the Harriet Tubman Double Trio, ...
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