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Tommaso Starace Quartet: Blood & Champagne
by Bruce Lindsay
Somewhere in a parallel universe far, far away Tommaso Starace is fêted as one of the finest saxophonists in contemporary jazz. It's the only way to explain why Starace remains so underrated on this little world. Blood & Champagne, his fourth album, should bring Planet Earth into line. Starace has a distinctive, hard-edged, tone and a ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures
by Chris M. Slawecki
Many have found elements of jazz in the music of European progressive rock artists such as Gong, Can, King Crimson and even, to a certain improvisational extent, Yes. Soft Machine Legacy continues this...umm, legacy with an amoeba-like lineup (mostly) from alumni of the original progressive instrumental group Soft Machine: guitarist John Etheridge, bassist Roy Babbington and ...
Stephan Crump & Steve Lehman: Kaleidoscope & Collage
by Nic Jones
Bassist Stephan Crump and alto saxophonist Steve Lehman are both musicians with little time for musical boundaries. Their CVs confirm this, but what they perhaps don't throw up so readily is that they are both closer to the future of this music than many of their contemporaries. In recent years, Crump has been an active member ...
Cynthia Felton: Come Sunday - The Music of Duke Ellington
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un disco del genere è di quelli che ci fa chiedere dove va il jazz oggi. Sia per la musica che contiene che per le modalità di produzione. L'ennesima autoproduzione (di questi tempi sempre più numerose). Ma stavolta con ben quattro sezioni ritmiche più ospiti, voce registrata ai Capitols Studios di Hollywood ed un grande lavoro ...
Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On With Many Hands, bassist/composer Michael Feinberg charts his epic journey across the topographic ocean of sound, every once in awhile plunging into its depths to stir up a vortex and emerge with a roar. His playing is that driven by a powerful natural energy. Thus, he disappears and explores the temples of tone and timbre, ...
Avishai Cohen: Seven Seas
by Nenad Georgievski
Over the past few years, bassist Avishai Cohen has become recognized as one of the most creative musicians of current times. A fertile composer of the highest rank, he has, among other things, enriched and expanded the genre he works in: a master of the upright bass, an improviser of not-so-often-seen genius, and a bandleader with ...
Danny Frankel with Nels Cline & Larry Goldings: The Interplanetary Note/Beat Conference
by Mark Corroto
Enough is sometimes enough. Drummer/percussionist Danny Frankel presents a shortish (by modern CD standards), 34-minute collection of 11 compositions on The Interplanetary Note/Beat Conference. Then again, sometimes a sketch can speak louder than an entire painting.Frankel, a consummate player, has been a sideman to the likes of Laurie Anderson, Steven Bernstein, Lou Reed, Robin ...
Remo Anzovino: Igloo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con Igloo Remo Anzovino tenta, con successo, una sintesi di generi diversi, realizzando un lavoro che alterna una sinfonia per orchestra a una serie di duetti, d'andamento più jazzistico, per piano e altro strumento. La continuità è garantita dall'unitarietà della composizione e l'alternanza di forme favorisce l'arricchimento per ibridazione delle une e delle altre. La cifra ...
Animation: Asiento
by C. Michael Bailey
Jam bands Phish and Gov't Mule have been making a cottage industry of covering a famous LP for their respective Halloween concerts (the bands' “costumes," so to speak). In 2010, we were treated to Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus (Warner Brothers, 1978) and The Who's Who's Next (MCA, 1975), respectively. It is not ...
Giordano Grossi: The Title Isn't Important
by AAJ Italy Staff
A trentaquattro anni Giordano Grossi pubblica il primo disco da leader, alla guida di un quartetto d'ottimo livello, che esegue le sue composizioni con professionalità e partecipazione. Non ha avuto fretta dunque di apparire oltre la vetrina del jazz trentino, in cui si è formato (diploma al conservatorio di Trento), preferendo sostenere corsi di perfezionamento (D'Andrea, ...
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