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Pedra Preta: Your Choice

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2011

Questo album del trio Pedra Preta si muove con convinzione in territori soleggiati, latini, pieni di passione e calore. Il che fa un po' strano se si tiene conto che questa produzione si muove fra Berlino e Berna, due località certamente non associate abitualmente agli scenari sopra segnalati Ma con la globalizzazione non ci possiamo meravigliare ...

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Gerald Cleaver / Uncle June: Be It As I See It

Read "Be It As I See It" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
January 27, 2011

Drummer Gerald Cleaver has a CV which takes in names like Mario Pavone, Joe Morris, Charles Gayle and Roscoe Mitchell. Of these names it's the last which inspires not only Cleavers's music, but also his appetite for working in new musical forms, and striving for new forms of musical expression. It's hardly surprising, then, that Be ...

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Trichotomy: The Gentle War

Read "The Gentle War" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 26, 2011

The Gentle War, Trichotomy's fourth album, further establishes the Australian three-piece at the forefront of the newer generation of intelligent, thoughtful and inventive piano trios. The band brought in Brent Sigmeth--an engineer who has worked with jazzers like The Bad Plus, as well as folkies such as Ramblin' Jack Elliott--to mix the album, and the result ...

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Gerald Cleaver / Uncle June: Be It As I See It

Read "Be It As I See It" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
January 26, 2011

Be It As I See It, Gerald Cleaver's fourth release as a leader, is an artistic vision of the Great Migration of African American families, in particular his family's movement from the rural South to the urban landscapes in the North, arriving at his home in Detroit, Michigan. The New York-based drummer/composer is a major player ...

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Kirk Knuffke - Lisle Ellis - Kenny Wollesen: Chew Your Food

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 26, 2011

Ancora un trio, ancora un album splendido per il giovane trombettista e compositore Kirk Knuffke. Se in Amnesia Brown insieme al fido Kenny Wollesen si era assicurato i doppi servigi di Doug Wieselman al clarinetto e chitarra, in Chew Your Food è lo storico bassista canadese Lisle Ellis a completare il trio. E laddove il sunnominato ...

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Jonathan Kreisberg: Shadowless

Read "Shadowless" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 26, 2011

Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg has gained a lot of visibility through his sideman work with organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, but his talents are occasionally downplayed in that role. When left to fend for himself, as on this eight song program, the full breadth and depth of his artistry is revealed. Kreisberg wanted to follow up his gentle, ...

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Dave Gisler's Shizzle: Dream

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 26, 2011

Le piccole etichette svizzere continuano a stupirci con proposte coraggiose e mature al tempo stesso, disancorate dal solito stile hard bop. Il chitarrista Dave Gisler affronta queste otto composizioni, in parte scritte collettivamente, in parte scritte da lui stesso, con il giusto grado di curiosità e con la completa padronanza del linguaggio. Un idioma moderno e ...

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Nordic Connect: Spirals

Read "Spirals" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
January 26, 2011

Flurry (ArtistShare, 2007), the debut disc from Nordic Connect, rang out loquaciously. In assimilating several moods, the music created an emotionally resolute ambience. Since the release of the CD, the band as toured Canada, the USA and Scandinavia, recording its follow-up,Spirals, at the end of 2008. Pianist Maggi Olin wrote most of the compositions, ...

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Alessia Obino: Echoes

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 26, 2011

Ci sono i tratti peculiari della grande tradizione jazzistica nella vocalità di Alessia Obino, anche se nel suo disco d'esordio Echoes a emergere è una propria forza espressiva, basata su fluidità tecnica, capacità interpretativa di rilievo e voglia di azzardare. La vocalist sceglie un percorso di sei brani autografi e un paio di riletture ("Strollin' di ...

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Arthur's Landing: Arthur's Landing

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 26, 2011

Strani e talvolta spiazzanti i meccanismi di riscoperta e santificazione nelle musiche di oggi. Che Arthur Russell [morto nei primi anni Novanta, senza poter godere la lunga onda di reflusso indie che ancora lambisce spumeggiante un mercato discografico sempre più specializzato] sia stato un musicista/produttore fantastico e innovativo è fuori discussione. E lo testimoniano diverse raccolte ...