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James Sherlock Trio: Domestic Arts

Read "Domestic Arts" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 19, 2011

Domestic Arts caps a busy 2010 for Melbourne guitarist James Sherlock, following the release, earlier in the year, of the impressive Solo (Pinnacles Music, 2010). That recording highlighted not only Sherlock's notable chops but also his songwriting skills, with more than half the compositions self-penned works of striking originality and nuance. This time out Sherlock leads ...

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Giovanni Falzone - Mosche Elettriche: Around Jimi

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 19, 2011

Il trombettista Giovanni Falzone si cimenta in una singolare tenzone con le ombre elettriche di Miles Davis e di Jimi Hendrix e cerca di evocare l'incontro in sala di registrazione mai avvenuto fra i due giganti. Ottobre 1969, appena due mesi dopo Woodstock e dopo le tre sedute di registrazione per Bitches Brew. Tutto è pronto ...

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Charlier / Sourisse: Imaginarium

Read "Imaginarium" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 19, 2011

To affirm that jazz is, indeed, a global concern one only need look at transatlantic collaborations taking placed on a regular basis. One look at the list of albums reviewed at All About Jazz and it's patently clear that, while cultural cross-pollination has been going on for decades, it's now a norm rather than a phenomenon. ...

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Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

Read "Perpetual Motion" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 19, 2011

Donny McCaslin's Perpetual Motion is an embarrassment of riches, employing a lineup populated by the edgiest, most progressive-thinking jazz musicians currently composing. Alto saxophonist David Binney (who also produces the disc), pianist Uri Caine, bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Antonio Sanchez have been producing music that has positively expanded jazz music for the past decade. McCaslin ...

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Rafi Malkiel: Water

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 19, 2011

Acqua non solo nel titolo ma anche fisicamente a irrorare idee, suoni e strumenti del Rafi Malkiel Ensemble. Perché Rafi Malkiel, trombonista e compositore nato a Gerusalemme, costruisce una suite in dodici parti nella quale cerca di tradurre in musica i vari stati e le diverse declinazioni sonore di questo elemento naturale. Perché inventa uno strumento, ...

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Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Soul Of The Movement: Meditations On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Read "Soul Of The Movement: Meditations On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 19, 2011

A man with a deep social conscience and a fervent interest in social history, San Francisco bassist and band leader Marcus Shelby has previously used music to illuminate past injustices on Port Chicago (Noir Records, 2006), and then again with Harriet Tubman (Noir Records, 2008). On Soul Of The Movement: Meditations On Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

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EAM - Electronic Acoustic Meeting: Raft

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 19, 2011

L'Electronic Acoustic Meeting è un quartetto svizzero che, attraverso l'improvvisazione, cerca di unire sonorità classiche come quella del violino e del violoncello a colori e atmosfere contemporanee prodotte al laptop, il tutto sostenuto dalla batteria. I quattro musicisti bernesi che compongono l'EAM hanno tutti formazioni ed esperienze eclettiche: il violinista Hans Burgener ha a lungo frequentato ...

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Chano Dominguez: Piano Ibérico

Read "Piano Ibérico" reviewed by Josep Pedro

by Josep Pedro
January 19, 2011

Spanish pianist Chano Dominguez keeps on with his unique blending of flamenco and jazz with Piano Ibérico (> (Iberian Piano), an exquisite homage to some of Spain's most influential composers, including Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, and Frederic Mompou. Along with three new compositions of his own, Dominguez creates his own interpretations of these ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Woodblock Prints

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 18, 2011

Nonostante l'ancor giovane età - è nato a Toronto nel 1975 - Harris Eisenstadt vanta numerose collaborazioni di prestigio (Sam Rivers, Paul Rutheford, Wadada Leo Smith, etc.) ma soprattutto ha già delineato una originale prospettiva musicale ed estetica attraverso una produzione selezionata e di qualità. Con Jalolu (CIMP - 2004) e Guewel (Clean Feed - 2008) ...

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Led Bib: Bring Your Own

Read "Bring Your Own" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
January 18, 2011

Writing about Led Bib's Mercury Prize-nominated album, the raucous and confrontational Sensible Shoes (Cuneiform, 2009), Britain's Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper--which speaks with as much authority about jazz as Murdoch's Fox News speaks about politics--declared: “Led Bib are the band bringing jazz back to contemporary music's cutting edge." A slightly more measured response came from ...