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Benny Sharoni: Eternal Elixir

Read "Eternal Elixir" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Debutto da leader per il saxofonista di origini israeliane Benny Sharoni, alla guida di un ensemble dove trovano posto musicisti affiatati e pronti ad imbastire jazz di classe e dalla buona intensità esecutiva. Il suo Eternal Elixir è un lavoro di sicuro spessore, nel quale viene proposto una sorta di mainstream canonico, lineare nei modi e ...

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David Binney: Graylen Epicenter

Read "Graylen Epicenter" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Alto saxophonist and producer David Binney has become a ubiquitous presence in jazz in the last 20 years fronting his own bands while appearing with Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine, Joel Harrison, Edward Simon and Bobby Previte. He might be considered the logical next step in jazz saxophone after Wayne Shorter and Michael Brecker (Sonny Rollins remains ...

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Elliott Sharp: Electric Willie

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Willie Dixon è stato uno dei più influenti bassisti del blues elettrico di Chicago e la sua figura, non solo di musicista ma anche di organizzatore, si staglia in modo deciso nel panorama della musica nera dalla seconda metà degli anni quaranta in poi. Dixon era molto aperto verso le novità e non a caso molte ...

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Duo PasCal (Domenico Caliri - Pasquale Mirra): Tutto normale

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Tutto normale dà adito ad un paio di considerazioni che esulano dalla mera recensione discografica, a cominciare dal titolo. A tale proposito, Domenico Caliri scrive nelle note di copertina: «Quando lo straordinario va oltre l'intenzione del proprio significato, divenendo ordinario, allora è il caso di pronunciare la rassicurante espressione: “tutto normale". Non è rassegnazione: è legittima ...

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Afterfall: Afterfall

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Afterfall è un incontro casuale di musicisti provenienti da diverse parti del mondo e da altrettanto diverse esperienze e percorsi artistici. Quell'incontro casuale dell'estate 2008 - un paio di concerti in Portogallo - diventa il prologo ad una conoscenza più approfondita e l'omonimo Afterfall è l'apprezzabile risultato. Ensemble democratico, apparentemente senza leader - in effetti dietro ...

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Scarnella / Fluorescent Pigs: Scarnella / Fluorescent Pigs

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Anche questo episodio della Phonometak Series si aggira nei territori della sperimentazione. Ottavo capitolo di una collana di splits in vinile che nascono con l'obiettivo di diventare rarità discografiche, è condiviso tra Carla Bozulich e Nels Cline (Scarnella) e Alessandro “Asso" Stefana e Andrea Belfi (Fluorescent Pigs). Il lato A è occupato dalle chitarre (in questo ...

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Mark Isaacs: Aurora

Read "Aurora" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

As Tell It Like It Is (ABC Jazz, 2009), amply proved, sometimes it's better to work with local musicians who, through regular touring, establish a singular collective voice. That's not to say Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007) was bad--it's hard to imagine anything with bassist Jay Anderson, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and saxophonist Bob Sheppard as lacking in ...

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Brad Shepik Quartet: Across the Way

Read "Across the Way" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall

The opening strains to Brad Shepik's Across the Way--repeated six-string figures of wistful longing, tending toward melancholy, with strains redolent of Radiohead's OK Computer (Capitol, 1997)--signal that the guitarist is exploring darker, more insular spaces than on his previous effort, Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009). To be sure, that work, which takes on global climate change ...

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Bones & Tones: Bones & Tones

Read "Bones & Tones" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Percussion might very well be the oldest form of communication known to man, but practitioners of the percussive arts are often relegated to supporting roles in the majority of today's music. When percussionist Lloyd Haber received an invitation to form a group for the 2009 Long Beach Jazz Festival, he fought this notion and put together ...

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Thomas Savy: The French Suite

Read "The French Suite" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

Frenchman Thomas Savy seems intent on making a statement with his bass clarinet, and he's doing so in a challenging format: a trio, accompanied only by bass and drums. He's out of the gate running with French Suite. The bass clarinet is a terrific sounding instrument, with a big wooden resonance and dimensional texture, ...


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