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Guido Santoni: Inside a Dream
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inside a Dream, dentro un sogno che si realizza, la musica come vita, il piano trio come veicolo perfetto per tradurre emozioni profonde e sentimenti, spiritualità e poesia. Il sogno è quello di Guido Santoni pianista eclettico e trasversale; il trio è quello completato dall'esperto batterista U.T.Gandhi e dal contrabbassista Danilo Gallo, recente vincitore del referendum ...
Kenneth Whalum III: To Those Who Believe
by Jonathan Wertheim
Perhaps three really is the magic number--at least for today's tenor saxophonists. Walter Smith III has been making waves in the contemporary jazz world for years now, but another “three" has been developing a distinctive and fresh style, albeit more quietly. Kenneth Whalum III is the most recent addition to a venerated musical ...
Vinicius Cantuaria - Bill Frisell: Lagrimas Mexicanas
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è certo nuova la collaborazione tra Vinicius Cantuaria e Bill Frisell, musicisti che si sono spesso incrociati [il chitarrista americano è stato spesso ospite dei dischi del collega brasiliano, ricambiato nel progetto “The Intercontinentals"], ma trova in questo nuovo Lagrimas Mexicanas una sintesi semplice e efficace. Soli con le proprie chitarre e la voce, i ...
Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet: Low Down Music
by Nic Jones
Drummer Manfred Kniel has leadership status on this release, and all the compositions are his. But this is also, perhaps, the key to the music's shortcomings, especially when the rhythmic vitality the leader habitually imparts is not matched by some other equally compelling element. His sly and sometimes witty melodic sense seems often to be a ...
Mike Reed's Loose Empathy feat. Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts
by AAJ Italy Staff
Mike Reed, insieme a Rob Mazurek, rappresenta oggi uno dei nomi di riferimento della new wave chicagoana, scena collegata a filo doppio con la storica AACM che, della musica moderna, è una delle perle artistiche più luminose ed interessanti. Il trentaseienne batterista, pianista e compositore americano (benché nato in Germania) ha ben chiara in mente la ...
Arturo O'Farrill: 40 Acres And A Burro
by Edward Blanco
Founded in 2002 by Artistic Director Arturo O'Farrill, The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra of New York's Lincoln Center was created to perform compositions from Latin music masters including the pianist's father Chico O'Farrill, as well as Machito, Tito Puente, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and others. The group separated from Lincoln Center on 2007, becoming part of the new ...
Oliver Lake / Christian Weber / Dieter Ulrich: For A Little Dancin’
by Nic Jones
Alto and soprano sax man Oliver Lake has been a key member of a trio with bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille in the past. That band, sometimes with the addition of a pianist, has been responsible for some of this century's most compelling small group jazz. This alto sax-bass-drums trio thus has a lot ...
Benjamin Drazen: Inner Flights
by Dan Bilawsky
The peaceful, John Lennon-like face on the cover of Inner Flights is merely a mask. Behind that calm exterior is a musician with killer instincts and serious chops. Sure, saxophonist Benjamin Drazen can be calm and graceful when he wants to, as he is on Inner Flights' closing track, “Polka Dots And Moonbeams," but more often ...
Marty Williams: Long Time Comin'
by C. Michael Bailey
Bay Area fixture Marty Williams does not have a pretty singing voice. It doesn't need to be because it is a commanding one--readily identifiable, friendly, accessible and honest. and worth much more than being pretty. Doubly talented, Williams has a piano style right out of the righteous songbook of Junior Mance, Les McCann, and Gene Harris, ...
Ratko Zjaca / Simone Zanchini: The Way We Walk
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Jazz musicians are, in essence and practice, explorers and high-wire artists. The finest improvising players use their instruments to mine the dimensions of sound, rhythm and emotional perception, doing so without a safety net. Like its keyboard cousin the piano, the accordion as an instrument that challenges its players to explore the technical and harmonic universes ...
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