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Livia Devereux: Night Winds Whisper

Read "Night Winds Whisper" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 28, 2011

New York City vocalist Livia Devereux sings con brio. She packs a passel of this con brio into a brief set of eight songs with a total time less than 30 minutes. However, brevity is the soul of wit, and Devereux has no trouble rendering her music to the bare bone. The title, Night Winds Whisper, ...

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Toni Germani Quartet: L'ora blu

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 28, 2011

È composto da soli brani autografi il nuovo lavoro di Toni Germani, saxofonista e compositore romano che a capo del suo quartetto giunge con L'ora blù al settimo album come leader, dopo diversi anni di pausa. Il CD si apre con tre brani che superano i dieci minuti di durata, nelle quali a emergere è il ...

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Roxy Coss: Roxy Coss

Read "Roxy Coss" reviewed by Wilbert Sostre

by Wilbert Sostre
January 28, 2011

With the exception of a few instrumentalists like pianist Mary Lou Williams, most women in the so called golden era of jazz were singers. That situation has changed in the last few years, with more and more extraordinaire female musicians entering the jazz scene. Bassist Esperanza Spalding, pianist Hiromi, drummer Cindy Blackman and saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen ...

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Chris Massey’s Nue Jazz Project: Vibranium

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2011

Il Nue Jazz Project diretto dal drummer Chris Massey trova un grande punto di forza nelle tensioni provocate dal versatile pianista Evgeny Lebedev, e rilascia fascino grazie agli intrecci melodici che Donald Malloy alla tromba e Benjamin Drazen al sax alto e soprano sanno produrre in una serie di rincorse e dialoghi fitti come nebbia. Vibranium ...

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Laura Harrison: Now...here

Read "Now...here" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 27, 2011

Canadian cum California girl Laura Harrison is blessed with a perfect mid-range alto that is sharply defined and true. She honed her talent in music through study and then by becoming a music educator. Finally, Dr. Harrison has gotten around to recording a jazz vocal disc, Now...here, and it is a daring treat. Harrison shows little ...

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John Coltrane: The Complete 1962 Copenhagen Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2011

Il concerto documentato da questo doppio CD (Falkonercentret di Copenhagen, 22 novembre '62) compariva già nel megabox in dodici CD Live Trane: Underground (dischetti 7 e 8, per l'esattezza), mentre, su LP, le italiane Ingo e Jazz Up ne avevano inserito fin dagli anni Ottanta tre brani ("Chasin' the Trane," “The Inchworm" e “Every Time We ...

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BMX: Bergen Open

Read "Bergen Open" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 27, 2011

Tradition, in a living, breathing art form, is something that is continually defined, refined and redefined. When drummer Paul Motian--first coming to fame in pianist Bill Evans' mid-1950s trio--trimmed his quintet of the early 1980s into a bass-less trio featuring then-emergent guitar whiz Bill Frisell and equally on-the-rise saxophonist Joe Lovano, its very first recording, It ...

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Doug Webb: Renovations

Read "Renovations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 27, 2011

April 24, 2009 was a busy day for saxophonist Doug Webb, his fellow musicians and the production team at North Hollywood's Entourage Studios. Recordings from that day have already been released on the excellent Midnight (Posi-Tone 2010): now Renovations delivers more music from the session, and very welcome it is, too. As with ...

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Orazio Maugeri - Andrea Pozza: Orazio Maugeri - Andrea Pozza

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2011

Il saxofonista Orazio Maugeri e il pianista Andrea Pozza sono due musicisti dotati di buona tecnica e, soprattutto, di una grande sensibilità esecutiva, pienamente dimostrata in questo loro album dove si sono messi al servizio l'uno dell'altro. Quella che propongono è una scaletta composta da alcuni brani autografi - dei quali tre firmati da Maugeri, compreso ...

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Hans Koller with Bill Frisell: Cry, want

by John Eyles
January 27, 2011

No, there is no need to re-read the heading or check the personnel list; guitarist Bill Frisell is included as a member of this Hans Koller twelve-piece ensemble. So, too, is Psi proprietor Evan Parker, making this the first recording featuring Parker and Frisell together--quite an occasion, eh? In addition, alongside German-raised, London-based Koller ...