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Pierre Favre: Albatros

Read "Albatros" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2011

Renowned Swiss drummer Pierre Favre imparts his kaleidoscopic tonal palette into these intricately exercised and probing duets with fellow countryman, guitarist Philipp Schaufelberger. The musicians cover a gamut of twists, turns and subtle theme building maneuvers, including airy environs and an abundance of tradeoffs. Moreover, Favre balances out the set with structured patterns and asymmetrical rhythms ...

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Markus Lauterburg Mumur: Ennedi

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2011

Il batterista svizzero Markus Lauterburg si presenta alla testa del suo quintetto denominato Mumur in un ambizioso progetto molto ben riuscito che lo vede esplorare nel corso di due CD una lunga suite denominata “Sinfonia," contenuta nel primo CD, e sette brani che coprono invece il secondo dischetto argentato denominato “Babem". Il clima è quello della ...

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Ben Wolfe Quintet: Live at Small's

Read "Live at Small's" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 1, 2011

Ben Wolfe is a commanding presence beside the gravitational weight of his bass violin. On Live at Smalls, Wolfe brings something of the fabled Charles Mingus' authority and leadership to his own quintet. It had to be so; Wolfe undertakes to have four towering individualists interpret the charts performed on this date at the club that ...

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Jacob Melchior: It's About Time

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2011

In It's About Time del batterista Jacob Melchior ascoltiamo brani originali alternati, o ibridati, con diversi evergreen del classico repertorio jazzistico. Da dietro i tamburi Melchior dirige il Trio de SUM - che si compone anche del pianista Tadataka Unno e del bassista Hassan JJ Shakur - facendo leva su qualità ritmiche d'assoluta levatura e si ...

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Bill Evans: Live at Lulu White's 1979

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2011

Il crepuscolo di Bill Evans fu tanto doloroso sul piano umano, quanto dotato di una speciale grazia su quello musicale. Mentre il suicidio del fratello Harry lo spingeva al deterioramento estremo, la sua inventiva melodica, la personale rivisitazione romantica del panismo bebop e la voglia di comunicare e mettersi in gioco dal vivo e in studio, ...

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Dizzy Gillespie: Four Classic Albums

Read "Four Classic Albums" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
January 31, 2011

Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the few jazz musicians equally adept (and influential) in small groups and fronting big bands. After the bebop heyday, he spent the fifties equally divided between smaller groups and a larger orchestra. His days as a bebop pioneer and a developer of Afro-Cuban music behind him, he now had a ...

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Ratko Zjaca - Simone Zanchini: The Way We Talk

Read "The Way We Talk" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2011

The Way We Talk - “Il nostro modo di parlare" - è l'emblematico titolo del CD d'esordio di questo quartetto che fa della molteplicità di radici, geografiche e musicali, la propria peculiarità e ricchezza. Capitanato dal chitarrista Ratko Zjaca, croato stanziato a Rotterdam, e dal fisarmonicista Simone Zanchini, il quartetto è completato alla ritmica dalla batteria ...

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Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears

Read "Trails of Tears" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 31, 2011

Trumpeter, Jacques Coursil's Trails of Tears is quite simply, a monumental undertaking and a major work that ought to bring to light some of the earlier work that comments on colonialism in America, such as the equally important Gorée (Schemp, 1984), from Beaver Harris/Don Pullen 360˚ Experience; that composition itself being a strident dirge about the ...

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Frank Gratkowski / Jacob Anderskov: Ardent Grass

Read "Ardent Grass" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
January 31, 2011

The reeds-piano duo is hardly overdone within the recorded canon, but then neither has it been as rare or unusual as some lineups. This particular duo is apparently not unaware of this, and there's a personality to its work that's entirely its own.There's a little of Anthony Braxton about Frank Gratkowski's alto sax playing ...

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George Cotsirilos: Past Present

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2011

George Cotsirilos è un chitarrista americano (nato a Chicago) che si è messo in luce sin dagli anni novanta in diversi contesti che lo hanno anche visto passare da Etta James a Pharoah Sanders, salto forse meno complicato di quello che sembra sulla carta. In questo album Cotsirilos esplora in trio un repertorio mainstream costituito da ...