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Luciano Troja: At Home with Zindars

Read "At Home with Zindars" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 2, 2011

Italian pianist Luciano Troja--like saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, drummers Philly Joe Jones and Tony Williams, accordionist Dino Saluzzi, guitarists Larry Coryell and Emily Remler,and trumpeter Donald Byrd before him--discovered the beauty of pianist/composer Earl Zindars' music via the numerous interpretations of pianist Bill Evans. Enchanted by Zindars' compositions, Troja embarked on a five-year odyssey to meet the ...

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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet

Read "The Prairie Prophet" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 2, 2011

Since 1978, saxophonist Ernest Dawkins has led his flagship band, The New Horizons Ensemble, through myriad jazz traditions, from blues, swing and funk to post-bop, avant-garde and beyond. The Prairie Prophet, their fifth album on Delmark, is dedicated to one of Chicago's most venerated scene leaders, the late tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, a founding member of ...

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Lee Konitz – Piero Frassi Trio: Konitz Plays Konitz – Chapter 1

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 2, 2011

All'epoca di questa incisione (11 settembre 2008), Lee Konitz viaggiava spedito verso gli ottantuno (compiuti il successivo 13 ottobre), ma miracolosamente (e non per questo sorprendentemente: ci siamo felicemente abituati) ancora in possesso del suo inconfondibile suono, rilassato e tuttavia costantemente innervato da fremiti intestini, mai supino, con la bellissima cavata, chiara quanto in qualche modo ...

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Soren Moller: Christian X Variations

Read "Christian X Variations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 2, 2011

While Danish-born pianist Soren Moller and American saxophonist Dick Oatts--of Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz orchestra fame--have had an ongoing partnership on record, the seeds of this union have finally reached full bloom with Christian X Variations. The music on this recording, written to honor the Danish King who made significant efforts to protect Jews from deportation ...

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Vlada: All About You

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 2, 2011

Non è mai troppo tardi. Vlada ha impiegato 5 anni per registrare il suo CD di debutto. Voleva fare le cose in grande. Era consapevole che la sua vocalità lo avrebbe portato dove voleva. Soprattutto nei paraggi della musica R&B e soul, quella che trova la sua massima espressione in Stevie Wonder, per esempio, ma anche ...

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Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade: Brain Dance

Read "Brain Dance" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 2, 2011

There are “musician-for-hire" gunslingers--professionals employed at a moment's notice to bring their skills to a gig or recording. But the mercenary analogy is only a small part of their repertoire, as many of these invaluable side musicians are leaders and composers just awaiting the opportunity to release their own material. Such is the case with Brain ...

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Moorder: Moorder

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 2, 2011

Ciò che colpisce d'acchito in Moorder, ancor prima che il CD inizi a girare nel lettore, è, oltre l'enigmatica copertina, la composizione strumentale. Il vibrafono, strumento gentile, delicato per definizione e il bassotuba, il più ingombrante degli strumenti a fiato che sa di fanfara e di marchin' band, si mischiano con batteria, basso elettrico e chitarra ...

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Jackie McLean: New Soil

Read "New Soil" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
March 2, 2011

Jackie McLean's New Soil, is not the most acclaimed album in the classic Blue Note catalogue, but this 1959 release deserves more attention that it gets, being supremely well-played, well-written and--within the limitations of its time--well-recorded. This vinyl reissue, remastered from the original tapes by the good folks at Acous-Tech, is part of a series of ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert

Read "The Coimbra Concert" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2011

The stand-up comic begins, “I went to a day of rage riot the other day, and a Moppa Elliott concert broke out." He might continue with, “Take my jazz canon, please." That is just what the bassist's quartet, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, does--seize the jazz standard and demolish it. The Coimbra Concert is the ...

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Achim Kaufmann - Robert Landfermann - Christian Lillinger: Grunen

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2011

Non avevano mai suonato insieme, prima di questo concerto di Colonia, registrato senza una prova, senza un canovaccio, senza un segno di matita su un foglio di carta che potesse fungere da minimo riferimento. E non si direbbe proprio ascoltando Grunen! Perché il pianista Achim Kaufmann (esperienze con Michael Moore, John Hollenbeck, Jim Black, Mark Dresser, ...