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Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back

Read "Don't Look Back" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 1, 2011

Jane Stuart is as complete a jazz singer as they come. With the timing of a tap dancer, the emotive responsiveness of a stage performer, a voice for the ages, and the experience to put it all together into one unified whole, Stuart deserves more exposure than she currently gets. To her credit, Stuart is able ...

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Jazz Accident: Jazz Accident

Read "Jazz Accident" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2011

Fa piacere ascoltare un disco così, prodotto da una piccola realtà discografica italiana e suonato da un gruppo che, ascoltato a occhi chiusi, si potrebbe tranquillamente scambiare per una delle band americane che incidono per label di mainstream moderno del livello della Criss Cross o Double Time. I quattro protagonisti hanno studiato in giro per il ...

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Frode Gjerstad - Paal Nilssen-Love: Gromka

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2011

Hanno parecchio in comune Frode Gjerstad e Paal Nilssen-Love. Tanto per cominciare sono entrambi norvegesi. I due si frequentano fin dall'inizio degli anni Novanta, periodo in cui l'enfant prodige Nilssen-Love muoveva i primi passi in quella scena scandinava che già aveva in Gjerstad uno scafato veterano. Il sassofonista-clarinettista, nato nel '48, fu uno dei primi mentori ...

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Kit Downes Trio: Quiet Tiger

Read "Quiet Tiger" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 1, 2011

The Kit Downes Trio's first album, Golden (Basho Records, 2009), won a Mercury Music Prize nomination and put the group firmly at the forefront of British jazz. Quiet Tiger finds the Trio eager to move forward, redefining its sound. Not content to rest on the laurels garnered by Golden, pianist and composer Downes has augmented the ...

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Marc Lohr & Gerat7: Stick No Bill

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2011

"Parte di questa musica è stata scritta dopo un soggiorno di due mesi nel Sud dell'India. Anche se non influenzata direttamente la musica riflette elementi come il caos, i rumori, la tristezza e la gioia presenti nella vita quotidiana indiana". Le note di copertina a firma del leader (cresciuto in Lussemburgo ma formatosi in Olanda e ...

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Diego Urcola Quartet: Appreciation

Read "Appreciation" reviewed by Charles Walker

by Charles Walker
March 1, 2011

Subtlety seldom brings rewards in the life of a journeyman jazz musician. In a field overcrowded with competent colleagues, plagued by spotty media coverage and half-starved by the problems facing the music industry more generally, a gimmick is often required to garner even scant attention. Argentinian-born, New York-based trumpeter Diego Urcola--a long-time member of Paquito D'Rivera's ...

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Eri Yamamoto - Whit Dickey - Daniel Carter: Emergence

Read "Emergence" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2011

Disco di musica interamente improvvisata, Emergence è opera di tre artisti dalle ricche frequentazioni del free jazz contemporaneo: oltre ad avere ognuno una affermata carriera di leader, Eri Yamamoto è stata membro del quintetto di William Parker, Whit Dickey dei quartetti di David S. Ware e di Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter ha anch'egli collaborato sia con ...

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Kit Downes Trio: Quiet Tiger

Read "Quiet Tiger" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 28, 2011

When it's time to follow up an album nominated for a major, mainstream award such as Britain's Mercury Prize, jazz artists face a conundrum. Having enjoyed a year or so of unprecedented publicity, and keen to keep it coming, the choice is between a carbon copy of the nominated album, designed to maintain the lucrative, but ...

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Roberto Fonseca: Live in Marciac

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2011

Dopo un lavoro professionale che risale alla fine degli anni novanta (già il suo debutto, En El Comienzo assieme al sassofonista Javier Zalba fu definito miglior disco cubano del 1999) il trentacinquenne pianista Roberto Fonseca è la nuova star del latin jazz isolano e questo CD/DVD ne celebra il successo anche presso il pubblico europeo. Com'è ...

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Corea, Clarke & White: Forever

by John Kelman
February 28, 2011

As successful as its massive 2008 world tour was--stopping at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, and yielding both a live CD (Returns) and DVD (Returns: Live at Montreux 2008) from Eagle Entertainment the following year--it was patently clear that Return to Forever couldn't continue with guitarist Al Di Meola. It was, however, equally certain that RTF's remaining ...