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Silvia Bolognesi Open Combo: Large

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 21, 2011

Contrabbassista, compositrice, leader e titolare dell'etichetta discografica che produce il disco: in questo Large del suo Open Combo Silvia Bolognesi fa proprio di tutto. Eppure, come si conviene ai musicisti di grande spessore - quale sempre più mostra di essere -, la Bolognesi è tutt'altro che onnipresente nel corso del disco, che mette invece in mostra ...

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Joe Lovano / Us Five: Bird Songs

Read "Bird Songs" reviewed by Andrew J. Sammut

by Andrew J. Sammut
January 21, 2011

Sax giant Joe Lovano has blown next to a bevy of jazz greats, and been applauded as soloist and leader throughout his nearly 40-year career. While it might seem surprising that audiences had to wait until his 22nd album for a tribute to Charlie Parker, Bird Songs demonstrates, once again, that Lovano does things his own ...

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Dusko Goykovich: Five Horns & Rhythm

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 21, 2011

L'arte della scrittura per organici ridotti, ma superiori al classico quintetto, sembra essere ormai dimenticata. Eppure negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta i Jazz Messengers, il Jazztet, il Dektette di Marty Paich e molti organici di Shorty Rogers, produssero musica di altissimo livello, combinando la libertà dei piccoli gruppi alla capacità timbrica e narrativa delle orchestre. Five ...

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Stephen Haynes: Parrhesia

Read "Parrhesia" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 21, 2011

There's something about the plain brown recycled chipboard sleeve of Parrhesia, with its letter-pressed script, which relates to the music contained inside. It's not just the concern for sustainability, but also the understated, organic yet singular nature of the package. Trumpeter Stephen Haynes' leadership debut has been a long time coming, which perhaps suggests undue modesty. ...

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Walter Smith III: III

by Mark F. Turner
January 21, 2011

While there are many saxophonists warranting greater recognition, Walter Smith III is consistently emerging as an identifiable voice among the masses. He's been making waves, whether performing across the waters in Spain with bassist Paco Charlin; recording in France on drummer Eric Harland's debut, Voyager Live by Night (Space Time, 2010); with trumpeter Christian Scott for ...

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Raùl Jaurena: Fuerza Milonguera

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 21, 2011

L'uruguagio Raùl Jaurena è certo una figura degna di nota nell'attuale panorama del tango. Ce lo dice con chiarezza questo bel disco, inciso a Montevideo nel 2008 alla testa del suo largo ensemble, forte di ben quattro bandoneon e altrettanti archi (più contrabbasso), un dispiegamento di forze cui peraltro si ricorre solo qua e là nel ...

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Led Bib: Bring Your Own

Read "Bring Your Own" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 21, 2011

Led Bib has never been an easy ensemble to pigeonhole: according to critics and reviewers the band is “punk jazz," free improvisation, avant-garde, skronk, dirty jazz--and, most splendidly, “death-jazz-cum-math-punk." On the evidence of the London-based band's fourth album, Bring Your Own, it's all of the above, and a little bit more. This is music for dancing, ...

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Refuge Trio: Refuge Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 21, 2011

Un progetto che sulla carta (pregiata e suggestiva della Winter & Winter) ammiccava per accostamenti di strumenti, se non anche solo di talenti (Theo Bleckmann, Gary Versace e John Hollenbeck), lascia all'ascolto un vago senso di disorientamento, per l'aver trascorso un'ora di piacevole vagare senza una meta precisa. Il progetto, nato una decina d'anni fa per ...

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Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

Read "Perpetual Motion" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 21, 2011

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin can be called, quite accurately, a fearless player, whether it's for his prodigious and always adventurous work as a sideman--very notably with trumpeter Dave Douglas' quintet and with Maria Schneider's award-winning orchestra (for which he garnered a Grammy nomination), or on his own discs as a leader.McCaslin's musical spirit is a ...

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David Binney: Graylen Epicenter

Read "Graylen Epicenter" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 20, 2011

Even with artists whose eyes are always on a dangling carrot that keeps them moving relentless forward, there are albums where quantum leaps are made. Since 2005, alto saxophonist/composer David Binney has been alternating between small ensemble, inherently quick-and-dirty sessions for the Dutch Criss Cross label like Aliso (2010) and more ambitious projects on his own ...