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Danielle Reich: This Year’s Kisses

Read "This Year’s Kisses" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 7, 2011

There is something strange going on in Houston, Texas. It must be the heat and humidity, stimulating the fecund creative jazz spirits that give rise to the likes of Larry Slezak (No Worries (Self Produced, 2009)), Jacqui Sutton (Billie & Dolly (Self Produced, 2010)), Henry Darragh Tell Her More Me (A-Train Creative, 2010)), and, now vocalist ...

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Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes

Read "Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 7, 2011

The sophomore release of Pitom, of one of John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture series outfits, symbolizes a dead-end in this important musical and cultural movement that began in early nineties. Pitom, led by guitarist Yoshie Fruchter, is influenced by iconic musical figures from visionary seventies fusion bands like Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, as ...

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Dan Adler: Back to the Bridge

Read "Back to the Bridge" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 7, 2011

Dan Adler è un chitarrista israeliano da tempo attivo nell'area jazzistica newyorkese, che dopo innumerrevoli collaborazioni e il buon debutto di All Things Familiar del 2009 si ripropone nelle vesti di leader nel nuovo, e non meno interessante, Back to the Bridge. In questa incisione troviamo al suo fianco l'organista Joey DeFrancesco e il drummer Byron ...

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Jeremy Siskind: Simple Songs

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 7, 2011

Ci sono cose diverse (forse troppe) in quest'esordio del giovane pianista statunitense, già allievo di Fred Hersch e Harold Danko, e dal curriculum ricco di traguardi didattici e riconoscimenti in prestigiosi concorsi. Nato a Irvine, California, s'è trasferito da anni a New York dove ha collaborato con Chris Potter e Marcus Printup ed ha costituito un ...

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Captain Black Big Band: Captain Black Big Band

Read "Captain Black Big Band" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 7, 2011

Pianist Orrin Evans has been on a roll, with the release of a couple of diamond Posi-Tone releases in 2010: Faith in Action -- dedicated to friend and mentor, saxophonist Bobby Watson--and the old school yet highly progressive thinking of The End of Fear , with Tarbaby trio-mates, drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Eric Revis. But ...

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Pablo Held: Glow

by Dan Bilawsky
April 6, 2011

German piano wonder Pablo Held was only 23 years old when he entered the studio to record the music on Glow, but he had already earned his place in the pantheon of modern day piano trio leaders. Held's first two albums--Forest Of Oblivion (Pirouet, 2008) and Music (Pirouet, 2010)--helped put him on the map, but Glow ...

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Peter Schwebs: Stories from Sugar Hill

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 6, 2011

Il disco del contrabbassista tedesco Peter Schwebs offre una istantanea del suo periodo a Sugar Hill “way up in Harlem," passato a studiare e suonare con tanti musicisti americani e ad incontrare connazionali passati a visitarlo a New York. Dopo numerosi progetti da sideman, lo troviamo al debutto nelle vesti di leader. Come spesso accade in ...

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Fausto Ferraiuolo Trio feat. Johannes Faber: Artnam Mantra

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 6, 2011

Artnam Mantra nasce dall'incontro tra il pianista Fausto Ferraiuolo e il trombettista Johannes Faber, entrambi cultori di filosofie orientali e uniti da una sicura affinità musicale. I dieci brani proposti - quasi tutti a firma del pianista - ne sono esempio lampante, in quanto tutta la track-list evidenzia motivi d'interesse, sia per le situazioni intriganti e ...

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Clarence Johnson: Low Down Papa

Read "Low Down Papa" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
April 6, 2011

Pianist Clarence “Jelly" Johnson recorded for the Paramount label between 1923 and 1925. He was also accompanist to Chicago blues singers Sodarisa Miller and Edna Taylor amongst others, and recorded piano rolls in New York for the QRS label alongside James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. But, apart from that, very little is known about him, ...

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Humanization 4tet: Electricity

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 6, 2011

Lo si era capito già nel 2009, quando uscì su Clean Feed Humanization 4tet, che il chitarrista Luís Lopes aveva trovato la proverbiale quadratura del cerchio arruolando il sax tenore del connazionale Rodrigo Amado e affidando la ritmica ai fratelli Aaron e Stefan González (di recente ascoltati a fianco del padre, il trombettista texano Dennis González, ...