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Lol Coxhill / Roger Turner: Success With Your Dog

Read "Success With Your Dog" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 14, 2011

Listening to soprano saxophonist, Lol Coxhill on Success With Your Dog, it is tempting to dwell on the thought that Coxhill pushes the straight horn further, much further, than the late Steve Lacy. It is, of course, natural. Coxhill emerged around the same time as Lacy, and both men came long after Sidney Bechet, and the ...

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Ryan Cohan: Another Look

Read "Another Look" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 14, 2011

Ci sono diversi motivi per apprezzare il nuovo lavoro in studio del pianista Ryan Cohan, a cominciare dalla guizzante melodia dell'iniziale “Monk'n Around," brano che a grandi linee determina le atmosfere che caratterizzeranno anche gli altri dieci passaggi del suo Another Look. Tempi spesso medio-veloci, colori di fondo affidati ai tasti del leader ed esposizioni tematiche ...

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Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder

Read "Sweet Thunder" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 14, 2011

Acclaimed trombonist and member of the first family of jazz, Delfeayo Marsalis launches Sweet Thunder: Duke & Shak, an original theatrical jazz production culled from live performances in thirty-six locations across the country. The play was born from Marsalis' affinity for the music of Duke Ellington and the poetry of Shakespeare: first brought to the musical ...

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Aisha Ruggieri Quartet feat. Gianluca Carollo: Playing Bacharach

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 14, 2011

Affrontare un repertorio ampiamente battuto, e conosciuto, come quello di Burt Bacharach non è tra le idee più comode che si possono avere, ma la pianista Aisha Ruggieri - a capo di un quartetto dove emerge la figura del trombettista Gianluca Carollo - è riuscita a costruire un percorso ben amalgamato, impreziosito anche da due brani ...

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Yoni Silver: Peep Holes

Read "Peep Holes" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 14, 2011

Israeli bass multi-instrumentalist Yoni Silver is one of the most gifted and original voices in Israel's tiny free improv and indie scene. He is a versatile musician, and has collaborated with such free spirits as veteran clarinet improviser Harold Rubin and young vocalist/keyboardist Maya Dunietz, with whom he released A Mono Musical Suite For Three Manic ...

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Frank Salis H3O: Mad Dog

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 14, 2011

L'ascolto del primo brano di questo disco, una lunga e pensosa “Intro" del solo organo Hammond di Frank Salis non ci fa sospettare che si tratterà di un album che possiamo inserire nella categoria dell'acid jazz, con riferimenti a Jimmy Smith ed agli organisti del suo periodo. L'organista svizzero è molto bravo a creare atmosfere cariche ...

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Loose Tubes: Dancing On Frith Street

Read "Dancing On Frith Street" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 13, 2011

Twenty years after the legendary Loose Tubes played its final gigs, Dancing On Frith Street, a live album taken from those valedictory performances at London's Ronnie Scott's Club in September 1990, offers a chance for jazz fans of a certain age to reminisce, and an opportunity for those who missed the band's performances the first time ...

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Oregon: In Stride

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 13, 2011

Dopo 40 anni di attività e 28 album incisi (e a tre anni di distanza dal precedente 1000 Kilometers, sempre pubblicato dalla CamJazz), il gruppo degli Oregon non mostra segni di stanchezza o di cedimento nella propria musica, fedele a un ideale sonoro ben definito fino dagli inizi e in seguito saldamente cementato nel corso della ...

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Band Of Gypsys Reincarnation: 40 Years After

Read "40 Years After" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
January 13, 2011

The influence of James Marshall Jimi" Hendrix reaches far and wide even after his untimely death at 27 years of age on September 18, 1970. Over the years, there have been countless dedications to the iconic guitarist including a few notable jazz-oriented releases like Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix(ACT, 2007), from the intrepid French Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên ...

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Eric Vloeimans: Live at Yoshi's

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 13, 2011

Il trombettista olandese Eric Vloeimans ha alle spalle molte collaborazioni e progetti che lo hanno visto protagonista con il suo suono dolente e carico di espressività accanto a musicisti come John Taylor, Furio di Castri, Joe La Barbera, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron, Palle Danielsson, Rita Marcotulli, Roberto Gatto, Nguyen Le e tanti altri. In questo album, ...