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Koby Hayon: Gemini

by Dan Bilawsky
February 3, 2011

While Israeli-born guitarist Koby Hayon has been Stateside since 2001, he still proudly displays his roots in his musical projects. His position as the director of a Westchester, NY-based Jewish music festival--Nigunim: A Festival of New Improvised Jewish Music--and his work with fellow Israeli's Nadav Snir-Zelniker and Assaf Glizner in Trio Shalva are overt expressions of ...

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Wayne Wallace: To Hear From There

Read "To Hear From There" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
February 3, 2011

San Francisco-area trombonist Wayne Wallace is known for his Grammy-nominated forays into Afro-Cuban music, and on the surface, To Hear From There is another Latin jazz album. But mixed with the danceable, percussion-heavy rhythms and exuberant melodies, with a touch of melancholy, are complex, improvised solos that would delight even a jazz purist. ...

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Paul Hubweber & Philip Zoubek: Archiduc Concert: Dansaert Variatiions

Read "Archiduc Concert: Dansaert Variatiions" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
February 3, 2011

Trombonist Paul Hubweber has previously impressed in the trio PaPaJo, which he shares with bassist John Edwards and percussionist Paul Lovens, rightfully being compared with the late, great Paul Rutherford. Despite such comparisons, he draws from many sources. When practicing, he plays many Albert Mangelsdorff tunes, alongside Charlie Parker standards and J. S. Bach pieces.

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Fabio Turchetti: Forma e figura

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2011

Poco più che cinquantenne, cremonese, Turchetti è musicista vorace, e da alcuni anni anche produttore. Se il suo imprinting musicale è di inequivocabile matrice popolare, il jazz non è certo estraneo alle sue corde: la sua tesi al DAMS verteva proprio sul jazz in Toscana, terra - com'è noto - di quel Luca Flores che è ...

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Scott Colley: Empire

Read "Empire" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
February 3, 2011

Empire is another exceptional release by Scott Colley, the first-call bassist whose deep strings have been the mainstay with numerous leading artists and a part of several fine recordings including drummer Antonio Sanchez's outstanding Live in New York at Jazz Standard (Cam Jazz, 2010). “January," the album's opener, sets a mood that is as cinematic as ...

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Fabio Turchetti – Butrus Bishara – Luca Congedo: Dialogo

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2011

Un cremonese votato allo strumento-totem del tango, un palestinese che suona a sua volta un altro attrezzo-icona come il cosiddetto liuto arabo e un salentino che soffia dentro a flauti rinascimentali e barocchi: ecco quale in fondo singolare cocktail ci propone questo disco, inciso fra Crema e Cremona nel giugno 2009 e nel febbraio successivo. La ...

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Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2011

Con la recente dipartita di Hugh Hopper il gruppo Soft Machine Legacy ha perso il suo ultimo legame diretto con la formazione classica dei Soft Machine che immancabilmente siamo portati ad associare all'album Third, uno dei capolavori della musica giovane di ogni tempo. A questo punto il legame più solido rimane quello del batterista John Marshall ...

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Michel Portal: Bailador

Read "Bailador" reviewed by Charles Walker

by Charles Walker
February 2, 2011

For all the lip service paid to the idea of jazz as a universal language, the modern performing landscape is still, by and large, segregated into separate continental categories, each with a host of attendant stereotypes. For every Randy Weston or David Murray, musicians who have made studious efforts at cross-border communication, there are dozens of ...

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Chris Colangelo: Elaine's Song

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2011

C'è un grandissimo senso dello swing, un unione d'intenti rara e un'intensità espressiva di sicuro spessore in Elaine's Song, il nuovo lavoro di Chris Colangelo, contrabbassita e compositore di base a Los Angeles. Per dar vita a una scaletta perlopiù strutturata attorno a degli originali, il leader si contorna di musicisti in grado di garantire un'ampia ...

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Paul Desmond: Pure Desmond

Read "Pure Desmond" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 2, 2011

With a dry tone, and unhurried phrasing definitive of the emergent West Coast Cool--a relaxed alternative to the edgier hard bop coming from New York--alto saxophonist Paul Desmond had already made a name for himself with pianist Dave Brubeck's quartet on the legendary Time Out (Columbia, 1959). Desmond also wrote the tune that became Brubeck's signature, ...