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James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: The Causeway Suite

Read "James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: The Causeway Suite" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini

by Mark Sabbatini
March 24, 2011

James Hamilton is an idiot and the world is a better place as a result. The debut album by his 19-member orchestra, The Causeway Suite, is the 2010 British Composer Awards' 2010 winner for Contemporary Jazz Composition. The live performance is a bold and abruptly shifting mix of classic and modern concepts, full ...

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Vienna Art Orchestra: The Minimalism of Erik Satie

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 23, 2011

La musica di Erik Satie si presta naturalmente a letture ambigue. Un repertorio pianistico da una parte di incantevole ma inquieta leggerezza; dall'altra di scura, mistica drammaticità. E una lucidità filosofica che ha precorso i tempi, quanto meno nell'indicare la funzionalità del suono nella società postindustriale. Anche la Vienna Art Orchestra, in queste sue riflessioni su ...

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Eric Hofbauer: American Fear

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 23, 2011

Il secondo disco solo del chitarrista americano Eric Hofbauer continua il percorso già intrapreso sei anni prima nel precedente American Vanity: una raccolta di brani, tra originali e cover, attraverso i quali esplorare i grandi temi della cultura americana che danno il titolo ai dischi (anche se il collegamento logico non sempre è evidente), che diventa ...

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Anthony Braxton: Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972

Read "Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 23, 2011

Time has an ability to obscure certain details of the past. This notion is apparent when considering the multi-decade oeuvre of visionary composer Anthony Braxton, whose restructuralist Tri-Axium Theory is as unique as Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Theory or Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures. Braxton's use of pulse structures and multiple logics has long encouraged a considerable amount ...

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Brian Lynch: Unsung Heroes

Read "Unsung Heroes" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 23, 2011

Trumpeter extraordinaire Brian Lynch is always willing, quite rightly, to acknowledge the masters who have gone before him. Some of the finest jazz trumpeters never made it big, while others no longer sit as securely in the minds of jazz fans as they once did. Nevertheless, they are all part, as Lynch writes, of “the jazz ...

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Carlos Franzetti and Allison Brewster Franzetti: Alborada

Read "Alborada" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
March 23, 2011

With Alborada, pianists Carlos Franzetti and Allison Brewster-Franzetti, along with the City of Prague Philharmonic, have attempted an ambitious fusion of jazz and classical music that ventures far beyond simple orchestral arrangements as aural wallpaper. Third Stream--the blending of genres to create a hybrid of sorts--has been around, with varying degrees of success, for ...

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Onofrio Paciulli: Musicopoli

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 23, 2011

Dopo anni di studi e alcune esperienze come sideman, il pianista barese Onofrio Paciulli arriva a pubblicare il disco di debutto per la Philology, label tra le più attente ai nuovi talenti. Il suo Musicopoli propone un set canonico nei modi - brani autografi e standard tra i più frequentati - ma tutt'altro che scontato nei ...

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Brian Lynch: Unsung Heroes

Read "Unsung Heroes" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 23, 2011

Trumpet tribute albums are a tricky business. There are those in jazz, like Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, who have been endlessly saluted, creating a culture of mass appeal and celebration that's not always a good thing. On the surface, projects that praise these jazz heroes bring well-deserved exposure to their music and might, but they ...

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Frank Macchia: Son Of Folk Songs For Jazzers

Read "Son Of Folk Songs For Jazzers" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 23, 2011

Composer/arranger Frank Macchia explores twelve more American folk songs and their reinterpretation through jazz on Son of Folk Songs for Jazzers, a follow-up to his critically acclaimed Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony, 2010), for which he received his third Grammy nod in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category. As with the first album, Macchia uses a fourteen-piece ...

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ICP Orchestra: Jubilee Varia

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2011

Nella sua ormai più che quarantennale avventura creativa, tra le più significative dell'impro-jazz olandese e europeo, l'Instant Composers Pool Orchestra ha affidato al disco materiali molto differenti, per umore [come è naturale data l'attitudine dell'organico] e per qualità, pur mantenendo sempre viva quell'attitudine all'imprevedibile, al guizzo - più o meno beffardo - e alla sorpresa. Jubilee ...