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Ken Filiano & Quantum Entanglements: Dreams from a Clown Car
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ken Filiano, presenza tra le più assidue nella musica creativa su entrambe le coste degli States, a dispetto delle numerosissime partecipazioni, ha inciso relativamente poco nelle vesti di leader. Qui siamo addirittura ad un debutto, quello del quartetto pianoless denominato Quantum Entanglements. Nelle note di copertina Filiano dichiara come sia sempre stato affascinato dal mondo del ...
New York Electric Piano: Keys To The City Volumes 1 & 2
by Bruce Lindsay
New York Electric Piano started its life as a trio, staying that way for its first three albums. The fourth recording, King Mystery (Buffalo Puppy, 2008), found the band expanding to a septet. Following a minor reshuffle, Keys To The City Volumes 1 & 2 sees further expansion, to an octet with guests, and to a ...
Roger Davidson & David Finck: Umbrellas & Sunshine
by Dan Bilawsky
Many people never take the time to truly say how they feel about important people in their lives until it's too late. The same holds true in the jazz community. Posthumous tributes pour out of magazines, newspapers and websites, and are delivered via recordings when important figures of the music pass on, but something resonates more ...
Jerry Bergonzi: Convergence
by Greg Simmons
Saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi has become one of the most reliable recording artists in jazz. In between his day job as a Berklee College of Music professor, and performing, he turns out a great album or two every year. Featuring mostly tenor horn, Convergence follows dutifully in that pattern. The album splits between a classic piano-based quartet ...
Markku Ounaskari - Samuli Mikkonen - Per Jørgensen: Kuára. Psalms and Folk Songs
by AAJ Italy Staff
Kuára è un lavoro molto particolare, come talvolta avviene per i progetti ECM. Per quanto infatti l'organico sia tradizionalmente di ambito jazzistico e i tre protagonisti siano tutti musicisti schiettamente jazz, la musica in programma è invece di estrazione folk - più esattamente, si tratta di musica popolare di Karelia, Udmurtia e Vepsia, territori di cultura ...
Joe Lovano: Joe Lovano - Bird Songs
by Jonathan Wertheim
Joe Lovano's Us Five debut, Folk Art (Blue Note, 2009), was a triumphantly energetic outing, filled with the sound of two drummers and running through a program of Lovano's originals. It was a highly personal and emphatic debut, and a great one too, but Bird Songs is important in completing the portrait of this ensemble.
Michel Reis: Point of No Return
by Dan McClenaghan
With Point of No Return, pianist Michel Reis--born in Luxembourg and now New York-based after formal education at Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory--has recorded an album of atmospheric, often somber, and consistently beautiful music. The twenty-something musician avoids the trap into which so many budding artists fall: that of mixing styles and ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyrìa
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prosegue l'opera del pianista svizzero Nik Bärtsch attraverso i suoi “perfetti" moduli compositivi, dopo i precedenti Holon (2008) e Stoa, sempre per la ECM. Forte di un suono orchestrale denso e preciso, i Ronin di Nik Bärtsch sono una band che suona uno spartito accuratamente preparato. La pre-scrittura dei moduli non lascia nulla al caso, lo ...
Kevin Eubanks: Zen Food
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nei primi anni ottanta Kevin Eubanks si era segnalato come uno dei chitarristi emergenti più interessanti per poi perdersi un po' in un decennio che ha lasciato in assoluto tracce poco significative. Eubanks ha avuto comunque modo di suonare e registrare con Art Blakey, Dave Holland e Steve Coleman, Oliver Lake, Gary Thomas, oltre che col ...
Archaea Strings: In bilico
by AAJ Italy Staff
Originale quintetto nel quale un contrabbasso di anima jazzistica (Filippo Pedol) si aggiunge a un classico quartetto d'archi, l'Archaea Strings ci offre in questo delizioso CD una varietà di scenari che includono delle sorte di cover di brani più che celebri di ogni genere musicale, adattamenti da autori di contemporanea, composizioni appositamente commissionate e infine altre ...
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