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Native Soul: Soul Step
by Greg Simmons
Native Soul Soul Step is a stylistically coherent and well executed effort. The quartet--a classic keyboards, saxophone, bass and drums lineup--plays mostly straight-ahead, but adds enough instrumental and musical variation to keep it fresh throughout. Keyboardist Noah Haidu is the collective's founder, and is the source of a good portion of the music's diversity. ...
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: To Hear From There
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Trombonist Wayne Wallace is one of the most melodic players on his instrument. And although he might inhabit a somewhat narrow range--eschewing the very high register--he is also one of today's most expressive trombonists. His husky tone is one of a kind and gives his playing tremendous character. Moreover, he is one of the few players ...
Daniele Pozzovio - Ares Tavolazzi Quintet: Stand Up
by AAJ Italy Staff
Daniele Pozzovio, assieme al più esperto Ares Tavolazzi, conduce questo quintetto di jazz moderno, con due ance a descrivere vivacemente temi ora swinganti, ora più lirici, ora - i due brani di Coen - su ritmi maggiormente esotici. La centralità di Pozzovio è rimarcata dalla presenza in programma di ben quattro sue composizioni, per il resto ...
Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock
by Chris M. Slawecki
Trombonist and bandleader Conrad Herwig has quite colorfully and majestically explored the Latin side of some of modern music's most enduring composers and performers, and herewith adds his survey of Herbie Hancock's compositional catalog to previous Latin sets that honored Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter. “It's a little daunting in the sense that these tunes are ...
Ran Blake: That Certain Feeling (George Gershwin Songbook)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non verrebbe spontaneo associare il nome di George Gershwin a quello di Ran Blake o di Steve Lacy, così come a quello del tenorsassofonista Ricky Ford, protagonisti di questo disco. Per fortuna! Nessun rischio di maniera né di consunte scorribande soliste sopra i giri armonici più abusati del jazz: in queste registrazioni del 1990, ora nuovamente ...
Charlotte Hug - Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Charlotte Hug, violista membro dell'attuale line-up della London Improvisers Orchestra, attiva nel mondo dell'arte visiva e perennemente in viaggio d'arte fra Zurigo e Londra, viene spesso citata accanto a John Butcher, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Elliot Sharp e altri nomi dell'avanguardia moderna per la duttile creatività al servisio del “design scenico" collegato a improvising ...
Lou Volpe: Hear And Now
by Jack Huntley
Lou Volpe is a seasoned session and touring guitarist who has backed a litany of music luminaries. On Hear And Now, he steps out into the spotlight and fills center stage with his melodic, infection playing. Backed by a superb cast of musicians, Volpe's playing straddles the line between classic jazz guitar and a more exuberant, ...
Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Strings
by John Kelman
Artists are often defined--and pigeon-holed--by the music that's had the best distribution, not necessarily their best music. Not that any of the fusion discs that Jean-Luc Ponty recorded in the mid-'70s are bad; far from it. But the music the Frenchman released, before he moved to the United States, reveals a different formative period for the ...
Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back
by Bruce Lindsay
From the opening bars of “I Just Found Out About Love," Jane Stuart takes control of this sophisticated collection of tunes with a voice that oozes style, confidence and emotional strength. Don't Look Back brings Stuart together with an empathic group of musicians, the arrangements are always interesting and at times inspired, and the conclusion is ...
Italian Instabile Orchestra: Totally Gone
by AAJ Italy Staff
Vent'anni di vita e non dimostrarli. Vent'anni di storia e avere ancora la freschezza degli esordi, l'energia e l'entusiasmo di un manipolo di improvvisatori che hanno sempre creduto nella forza della musica e delle idee. Vent'anni e vedere quella che sembrava un'utopia - dare continuità, organicità e visibilità ad un ensemble di diciassette elementi animati dal ...
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