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Anthony Braxton: 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003
by AAJ Italy Staff
Fin dagli inizi della sua vicenda artistica, Anthony Braxton ha coltivato il piacere di ripercorrere le vie del jazz storico, affiancando alla ricerca complessa nella miniera dell'improvvisazione e della composizione la rilettura di standard o l'omaggio a figure fondamentali, come Parker e Tristano. Le sue scelte sono spesso andate a toccare un ambito vicino al jazz ...
Robert Hurst: Bob Ya Head
by Mark F. Turner
With a spirit of optimism and new direction, veteran bassist Robert Hurst returns with two simultaneous releases on his Bebob recording label, that further expound on his leadership. The first, Unrehurst Vol. 2 , is an all-acoustic date with drummer Chris Dave and firebrand pianist Robert Glasper, recorded live in 2007 at the Smoke in New ...
Ralph Bowen: Power Play
by Mark Corroto
The inscription on saxophonist Ralph Bowen's business card probably should read “solid citizen," because his post-bop jazz conception has always been steadfast and dependable. With Power Play, he only adds to his stalwart reputation. Together with bassist Kenny Davis, Bowen was picked, in the mid-1980s, to spearhead the return of Blue Note Records in ...
Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nei nove brani di The New Song and Dance i Clayton Brothers mettono in mostra la loro voglia di esplorare - e rielaborare, facendole proprie - le atmosfere degli anni in cui il jazz richiamava folle danzanti. Le intenzioni sono chiare fin dai due temi d'apertura: “Cha Cha Charleston," un brano ancheggiante dove la tromba di ...
Joachim Kühn / Majid Bekkas / Ramon Lopez: Chalaba
by Bruce Lindsay
The sleeve notes to Chalaba describe German pianist and alto saxophonist Joachim Kühn as a veteran “of the conscious avant-garde." This is certainly accurate--he's worked with Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman, among others--but the description sounds rather forbidding, a portent of some serious and complex sounds for the mind but not the body. Thankfully it misleads: ...
Taylor Ho Bynum / John Hebert / Gerald Cleaver: Book Of Three
by John Sharpe
While trumpet plus rhythm trios are not a dime a dozen, they are becoming increasingly common currency. Following after Stephen Haynes' Parrhesia (Engine, 2011) and Kirk Knuffke's Chew Your Food (No Business Records, 2010), arrives an entry by the adventurous threesome of cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, bassist John Hébert and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Though the title ...
Enrico Malatesta - Christian Wolfarth: Mirrors
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un duo per sole percussioni dove sono banditi vibrafono, xilofono, marimba - ossia gli strumenti melodici della famiglia - è una bella sfida per i musicisti ma soprattutto per gli ascoltatori. Christian Wolfarth (affermato percussionista svizzero) e Enrico Malatesta (talentuoso emergente romagnolo) la vincono grazie alla felice scelta del minutaggio (trentasei minuti, quelli di un classico ...
Chalgia Sound System: Chalgia Sound System
by Nenad Georgievski
Despite becoming a genre of its own in these modern times, folk music goes deeper than that. Folk music of any culture is the music of the common people--their voice, a medium where thoughts and emotions have been tightly knit. It is music by the people, about the people and for the people. In a modern ...
Paolo Fresu / A Filetta Corsican Voices / Daniele di Bonaventura: Mistico Mediterraneo
by John Kelman
At a time when cross-pollination has become the new musical evolution, ECM Records remains at the vanguard. Whether blending music of Tunisian origins with European impressionistic concerns and hints of New World groove on oudist Anouar Brahem's The Astounding Eyes of Rita (2009), or marrying Persian percussion with Baroque instrumentation and Fourth World improvisation on keyboardist ...
John Scofield: Out Like a Light
by AAJ Italy Staff
La ristampa di questo album del 1981 del notissimo chitarrista John Scofield ci consente di fare il punto sulla carriera di uno dei nomi di punta del panorama jazzistico degli ultimi trent'anni. All'epoca della registrazione di questo eccellente album in trio Scofield non era ancora approdato alla corte di Miles Davis, ma era già ben noto ...
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