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Brad Shepik Quartet: Across The Way

Read "Across The Way" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
February 11, 2011

Guitarist Brad Shepik mines a lode of styles on his compositions. Shadow and light play through his music, and he is not averse to opening the door to let a swath of sunshine in. The mood is never static, the wheel of invention is constantly churning out ideas that surprise and delight. Shepik wrote ...

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Diego Baiardi: Moti Ondosi

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 11, 2011

C'era una volta la West Coast e tanti musicisti che si spostavano da quelle parti dalla fredda e nevrotica New York in cerca di climi più temperati e di occasioni di lavoro negli studi di registrazione ed in quelli cinematografici di Hollywood. Un'occasione che ha lasciato traccia di sè con registrazioni in cui si respira un'aria ...

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Seval: i know you

Read "i know you" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 11, 2011

Jazz fans and speech pathologists may disagree on the technicalities, but analogies between vocals and instrumentation date back to Billie Holiday. Holiday referred to her own singing as feeling like, ..."I'm playing the horn." If validation of the theory were in doubt, Ethiopian-born, Vietnamese-raised vocalist, Sofia Jernberg lays it to rest. The very inventive vocalist is ...

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Kellylee Evans: Nina

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 10, 2011

Come molte cantanti della sua generazione la canadese Kellylee Evans si muove in quel territorio trasversale dove folk, pop music, rock e jazz s'incontrano dando vita ad un'enorme varietà di forme possibili: ovviamente la sintesi che ne deriva può andare da livelli molto alti fino a cose mediocri. Dipende dalle qualità espressive e dall'intelligenza musicale dei ...

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Rakalam Bob Moses - Greg Burk: Ecstatic Weanderings

Read "Ecstatic Weanderings" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 10, 2011

C'è un brano, il quarto della track list, intitolato “Song of the Free Will," nel quale il pianista Greg Burk suona la batteria ed il batterista Rakalam Bob Moses si cimenta al piano. Al di là del risultato, tutt'altro che disprezzabile, è una chiara dichiarazione d'intenti sul modo di intendere la musica e di interpretare l'arte ...

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Samo Salamon Trio: Almost Almond

Read "Almost Almond" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
February 10, 2011

It's starting to feel as if the further guitarist Salamon Salamon progresses in his career, the faster the company he keeps. On this trio date, he's working with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey, both with numerous appearances on record to their credit. But Salamon isn't out of his depth; this is a trio that ...

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Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: G.R.A.S.S. On Fire

Read "G.R.A.S.S. On Fire" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
February 10, 2011

The Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society was fermented when a group of jazz musicians who shared the same vision for reggae got together for jam sessions at the home of keyboardist Nate Shaw. Their love of the music coalesced into a more tangent form when they presented the soundtrack to the 1972 film, The Harder They ...

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Alexander McCabe: Quiz

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 10, 2011

Il saxofonista e compositore Alexander McCabe torna a incidere un album in qualità di leader a cinque anni di distanza da The Round, dopo aver arricchito il proprio curriculum con la realizzazione di musica per serie TV, film e documentari. Nel nuovo Quiz McCabe si è scelto dei compagni di avventure jazzistiche di sicuro livello, come ...

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Open Graves: Flight Patterns

Read "Flight Patterns" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 10, 2011

Recording in an empty water cistern, specifically the one in Port Townsend, Washington, must be something like conversing with Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and cosmologist, whose battle with ALS has left him to communicate through tapping words on a voice synthesizer. Each note produced in the cistern has the capacity to overwhelm every other sound, ...

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Johannesson & Schultz: Johannesson & Schultz

Read "Johannesson & Schultz" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 10, 2011

Johannesson & Schultz is an album that triggers memories of those heady days in the late 1960s when fusion was all the rage. One that evokes distant echoes of Miles Davis' In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and the work of guitarist Larry Coryell. It harks back to the quieter, more meditative end of the genre, ...