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Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us to Volume II

Read "This Brings Us to Volume II" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2011

Che Henry Threadgill sia uno dei compositori più originali e significativi della musica del nostro tempo non lo si scopre adesso e non lo si scopre necessariamente con questo disco [ma qualsiasi punto di approdo al suo mondo è estremamente interessante in una carriera dal segno formale così importante]: dagli inizi degli anni Settanta, attraverso le ...

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Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

Read "New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 31, 2011

Saxophonist Colin Stetson's New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges evokes the quote by cowboy philosopher and former US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also ...

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William Parker Organ Quartet: Uncle Joe's Spirit House

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2011

Aunt Carrie Lee Edwards e Uncle Joe, due nomi come tanti altri nell'America dei problemi razziali, del sogno americano irraggiungibile, dell'arte del guadagnarsi la vita con il duro lavoro, la fatica ed il sudore, dei legami famigliari mantenuti saldi a fronte di difficoltà enormi ed enormi sacrifici. A questi parenti ultranovantenni che hanno appena festeggiato i ...

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Peter Erskine / Bob Mintzer / Darek Oles / Alan Pasqua: Standards 2, Movie Music

Read "Standards 2, Movie Music" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 31, 2011

Composers of movie soundtracks have crafted some of the most enduring tunes for jazz treatment. Names like Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Krzysztof Komeda, and Ennio Maricone show up in the credits of innumerable albums, with tunes that shape moods and atmospheres, and supply jazz artists with engaging melodies galore.Drummer Peter Erskine has collected a ...

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Seval: i know you

Read "i know you" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 30, 2011

The concept of uniqueness is somewhat diminished in contemporary music journalism, where an artist can be labeled “unique," simply because he sports an amusing hairstyle or pair of trousers. Seval is splendidly unique, a one-off for all the best reasons. On its debut album, i know you, the band establishes itself with confidence and, of course, ...

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Henry Darragh: Tell Her for Me

Read "Tell Her for Me" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 30, 2011

Do we really need one more trombonist/singer from Texas? Well, seeing that the only one that comes to mind presently is “Tea" Jack Teagarden, then, well, yes we do. Multi-instrumentalist Henry Darragh completely fits the musical bill. While Darragh looks more like a physics graduate student at UT-Austin, he is, actually, an accomplished composer/performer, who leads ...

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International Street Cannibals Ensemble: Ballets & Solos

Read "Ballets & Solos" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 30, 2011

If Ballets & Solos is any indication, then at least five young composers in the US are breaking barriers between genres and idioms. These young folks are brimful with ideas, humor and humanity, their compositions performed with wildly interesting and improvised cadenzas. The absolute command of melodic and harmonic invention is even more interesting. More than ...

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Larry Goldings and Harry Allen: When Larry Met Harry

Read "When Larry Met Harry" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
January 30, 2011

There is always a place in the world for beautifully played jazz, where the saxophonist doesn't sound like he's trying to inflict pain on his horn, and the pianist just hits all the right notes. Tenor player Harry Allen and his keyboard partner, Larry Goldings, are the musicians, and the album is When Larry Met Harryl. ...

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Blood, Sweat, Drum + Bass: Asa Nisi Masa

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by Ian Patterson
January 30, 2011

Big bands don't come much bigger than Denmark's Blood, Sweat, Drum 'n Bass: 27 musicians, including a fourteeen-piece horn section, a nine-piece rhythm section, electric guitars, two vocalists and electronics. BSDnB purveys a brand of music which shares the iconoclastic approach and raw energy of Spanish saxophonist Llibert Fortuny's Electric Big Band, Belgian big band Flat ...

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Emergency!: Live In Copenhagen

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by Mark Corroto
January 29, 2011

Surprisingly, drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki's band, Emergency!--formed in 2001--never performed outside of Japan until this 2006 date in Denmark. The quartet, also featuring guitarists Otomo Yoshihide and Ryoichi Saito, plus bassist Hiroaki Mizutani, covers the jazz compass in the same manner as 1990s Downtown bands Rootless Cosmopolitans and Junk Genius; that is, they sometimes reimagine standards by ...