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Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 2: April Fools' '88
by Doug Collette
Adorned with some of the most colorful packaging in the Grateful Dead's Road Trips archive series, Vol. 4 No. 2: April Fools' '88Jerry Garcia's survival of a near fatal coma in 1986 and the Dead's penetration into mainstream culture in 1987 following its hit, “Touch of Grey." This was also a year after the ...
Taylor Eigsti: Daylight at Midnight
by AAJ Italy Staff
Taylor Eigsti è uno dei tanti wunderkind che da sempre costellano la storia della musica di ogni genere e di ogni latitudine. All'età di otto anni apriva i concerti di David Benoit, a tredici suonava con Dave Brubeck, a quattordici incideva il primo disco da leader, etc, etc. E così le case discografiche hanno fatto a ...
Ben Winkelman Trio: Odysseys
by Ian Patterson
Something special is needed for a piano trio to make a splash these days, so crowded are the waters with talent. With Odysseys, however, pianist Ben Winkelman's trio manages just that. For seventy absorbing minutes, the trio captures the ear, providing thrilling evidence of a stellar contemporary trio to rank among the best. Australia's press has ...
Fred Hersch: Alone at the Village Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Fred Hersch almost cashed out back in 2008, when he fell ill with AIDs-related complications and spent seven weeks in a coma. The recovery was arduous, the resumption of his wide-ranging and top-level musical artistry uncertain--an uncertainty erased without a trace by Whirl (Palmetto Records, 2010), a trio set so assured, vibrant and beautiful that ...
Nexus: Plays Nexus
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anno di grazia 1980, il batterista Tiziano Tononi e il sassofonista Daniele Cavallanti fondano Nexus, gruppo ispirato ai fermenti provenienti dagli States anni sessanta e ai suoi grandi protagonisti (Mingus, Coltrane, Coleman, Shepp, Cherry, etc.). 1983, la Red Records pubblica Open Mouth Blues primo disco (pardon LP, era ancora l'epoca del caro vinile) dell'ensemble. 2010, esce ...
Endangered Blood: Endangered Blood
by Mark Corroto
Endangered Blood formed in 2008, to play a benefit concert to help pay for fellow musician Andrew D'Angelo's medical bills. For the performance, drummer Jim Black and bassist Trevor Dunn--two of the saxophonist's band mates--enlisted saxophonists Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega. As happens so often in modern groups, familiar players in different combination produce compelling results.
Bob Downes Open Music: 5 Trios
by AAJ Italy Staff
Forse pochi ricordano Bob Downes, il virtuoso del flauto, polistrumentista e compositore. Fece parlare di sè nella prima metà degli anni Settanta per le sue pirotecniche incursioni, sotto il nome di Bob Downes Open Music, nei generi più disparati, incrociando le sue ance con la musica d'avanguardia e l'elettronica, anticipando movimenti che negli anni successivi si ...
Roberta Piket: Sides, Colors
by Wilbert Sostre
Some people describe music in terms of colors. Composers like Duke Ellington used them in song titles like “Black, Brown And Beige," “Black And Tan Fantasy" and “Mood Indigo," to describe the mood and feeling of his music, Sides, Colors is a perfect title for this release by pianist Roberta Piket, as she ...
Thibault Falk 4tet: Sur le fil
by AAJ Italy Staff
Romantico. E un po' fuori dal tempo. Così si presenta il pianista Thibault Falk, a partire dalla copertina che lo ritrae in una posa assorta, pensierosa, in cerca di una ispirazione che sembra voler trovare con quella mano delicatamente adagiata sul pianoforte in un contatto fisico e osmotico con lo strumento. E così si presenta la ...
The Lou Grassi Po Band with Marshall Allen: Live At The Knitting Factory Volume 1
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer Lou Grassi, with his progressive jazz and improvisational luminaries, slams matters into high gear during this gutsy 2000 recording, captured at New York City's Knitting Factory. Historically, Grassi is known for his driving passion and prominent leadership, while almost always engaging with superior musicians. Here, the frontline musicians lock horns, via intervallic spikes and scorching ...
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