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John McNeil - Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da qualche anno il quartetto capitanato da John McNeil e Bill McHenry è impegnato nella riproposizione degli standard meno frequentati della letteratura jazzistica. Dopo Rediscovery, in Chill the Morn He Climb Jenny troviamo ancora in primo piano la tradizione del jazz che il quartetto omaggia ed al tempo stesso rivisita creativamente. Scongiurando le trappole dell'omogeneità interpretativa ...
Chefa Alonso and Albert Kaul: The Reliable Uncertainty
by John Eyles
Chefa Alonso plays soprano saxophone as well as percussion; Albert Kaul plays piano and clavichord. Despite recording extensively in other contexts, their discography as a duo is in its infancy and in a state of flux; a more appropriate title here might be “The curious case of Chefa and Albert." A four-track version of The Reliable ...
Anna Garano Trio: Come il re di un paese piovoso
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci voleva una certa dose di coraggio per affrontare in musica le poesie di Baudelaire e Verlaine, così come del contemporaneo Jaccottet, insignito lo scorso anno del “Gran Premio Schiller" come uno dei poeti francesi del Ventesimo secolo. E non era certo facile uscirne vincenti. Ma questo interessante trio diretto dalla chitarrista triestina Anna Garano, ha ...
Air: Air Raid
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tempi felici per i threadgilliani. Quasi in contemporanea con This Brings Us to Volume II (sequel al giustamente celebrato This Brings Us to Volume I) e a pochi mesi dall'uscita del mega-imperdibile-cofanetto-feticcio della Mosaic sul periodo Novus e Columbia (Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air), arriva come manna dal cielo la ristampa Candid ...
Dave Chisholm: Radioactive
by Bruce Lindsay
Radioactive was recorded in Salt Lake City in 2009, while bandleader/composer/trumpeter Dave Chisholm was working on the Master of Music degree at the University of Utah. Recording a debut album as leader with a 17-piece big band might be considered a tad hubristic, even for a Masters program--"start small" might be the received wisdom--but why not, ...
Paolo Fresu: Songlines / Night & Blue
by Greg Simmons
Paolo Fresu's Songlines/Night & Blue is a beautiful performance by a musician who does not feel compelled to prove himself with pyrotechnics. Instead, on this two-disc set, the Italian trumpeter prefers speaking his piece with lush melodies and a rich full horn sound, supported by an exceptional quartet. Being an Italian album, it seems ...
Georg Breinschmid: Brein's World
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quello che esce dalla testa del contrabbassista austriaco Georg Breinschmid è un effluvio di idee. Che a stento riesce a trattenere perché la sua è un'incontinenza musicale a 360 gradi. Due cd: 28 episodi musicali che gli fanno attraversare di tutto. Non abbandona il suo essenziale background classico ("Bach 11/16") e lo fa dialogare con tutto ...
Dado Moroni Trio: Dado Moroni Live in Beverly Hills
by Larry Taylor
Italian pianist/composer Dado Moroni is internationally respected for his driving piano style and improvisational skills. Now, in his Resonance debut, he comes up with complex trio arrangements, always swinging and intellectually stimulating. Moroni was born in 1962 and raised in Genoa, Italy, taking to music early, playing the family piano at three. Later, ...
Animation: Asiento
by Mark Corroto
1969 was perhaps a watershed year for jazz in America. Trumpeter Miles Davis, the anointed pied piper, recorded Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). It was to be the beginning of jazz/rock fusion. Maybe better described as jazz/rock/soul/funk fusion. Miles wasn't one to miss out on trends. He saw the popularity of Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, with ...
Ahmad Hassan Muhammad: Fly
by Jonathan Wertheim
Ahmad Hassan Muhammad isn't a big name in jazz--yet. The Cincinnati-born pianist self-produced and released hist first record, Fly, in October 2010, and while the disc is very much a first effort, it holds surprise, pleasure and promise often unheard in second or third releases by others in the jazz scene today. Everything ...
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