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Gary Todd / Dave Solomon / John Russell / Nigel Coombes / Steve Beresford: Teatime

Read "Teatime" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 13, 2011

These are seminal works of European improvised music. What makes them all the more exciting is the fact that this is the one and only time that they will ever be played this way. Remembering Eric Dolphy's famous broadcast over Dutch Radio recorded on May 29, 1964, just weeks before he died, “When you hear music, ...

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Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey

Read "Mystic Journey" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 13, 2011

Saxophonist Azar Lawrence's influential faculties and stylistic attack loom as significant contributions to the state of jazz, a genre that continually reinvents itself. He's played with jazz greats including McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis, amid stints with soul and pop icons. On Mystic Journey, Lawrence rekindles the John Coltrane connection, featuring Rashied Ali's presence and the ...

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Denis Biason - Massimo De Mattia: Duel 2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 13, 2011

L'inizio è folgorante. Vibrazioni di corde di chitarra acustica a tessere un tappeto scuro, ossessivo, ipnotico sul quale il flauto inventa voli senza meta, virate a trecentosessanta gradi, che sfruttano le correnti aeree per veleggiare senza peso nello spazio assoluto. Il “duello" tra i flauti di Massimo De Mattia e la chitarra di Denis Biason inizia ...

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Joyce Cobb: Joyce Cobb with the Michael Jefry Stevens Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 13, 2011

Anche John Hammond non l'aveva capito. Prima che se ne occupasse Jerry Wexler, voleva fare di Aretha Franklin una nuova Ella Fitzgerald ma non ottenne grossi risultati. Intendiamo dire che una cantante soul (anche strepitosa come Aretha) non è necessariamente una brava jazz singer e, fatte le debite proporzioni, la cosa vale anche per Joyce Cobb. ...

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Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony

Read "Silver Pony" reviewed by Lewis J Whittington

by Lewis J Whittington
January 13, 2011

Vocalist Cassandra Wilson is known for her genre bending interpretations of jazz and pop standards, though Silver Pony represents a bit of a departure. The liner notes explain that she worked on it during a personal crisis and also was returning to her musical roots. There are studio tracks recorded in New Orleans, mixed with live ...

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Jacques Pellarin Trio: Karenita

Read "Karenita" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 12, 2011

Karenita is the second album from the Jacques Pellarin Trio, following 2009's self-produced The Sound Of Philadelphia. It's a charming collection of lively, optimistic and happy tunes, played with exceptional style by this French ensemble; a real gem of an album that constantly surprises and delights. The album sleeve gives a clear and ...

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Eyal Maoz - Asaf Sirkis: Elementary Dialogues

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2011

Possiede l'energia del buon vecchio rock, quello verace e ruspante, dove l'esibizione è momento anche di ricerca, di sperimentazione di nuove sonorità e di nuove strategie esecutive. E vi è una spiccata propensione all'improvvisazione, alle continue invenzioni, all'ascolto reciproco per rilanciare sollecitazioni e impulsi ricevuti e creare prospettive diverse all'esecuzione. Questa miscela diventa esplosiva e incendia ...

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The Readers: Reviver

by Gina Vodegel
January 12, 2011

Multi-instrumentalist/composer Bryan Baker and his longtime compadre, saxophone specialist Aaron Henry, collaborated on Baker's second album This Morning Day (Enilkrad, 2010). Since then, both Baker and Henry have continued working together as part of a touring ensemble, Bryan Baker 4, and in the recording studio. They're an industrious duo, to say the least. As The Readers, ...

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Rich Halley: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival

Read "Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2011

Un sassofonista che vive a Portland, nell'Oregon. Un cornettista eternamente in ombra nato a Cleveland, nel Mississippi, ma da quasi mezzo secolo attivo a Los Angeles e dintorni. Un festival fuori mano come il Penofin Jazz, che da diciassette anni si svolge a Potter Valley, centoventi miglia a nord di San Francisco. Ecco un disco che ...

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Ratko Zjaca / Simone Zanchini: The Way We Talk

Read "The Way We Talk" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
January 12, 2011

Little more than a year ago, the great Croation guitarist, Ratko Zjaca, released the terrific Continental Talk (In + Out Records 2009) with his longtime collaborator, saxophonist, Stanislav Mitrovic, and some all-star American support. Not content to follow even a highly successful formula, Zjaca has teamed with Italian accordionist Simone Zanchini, Macedonian bassist Martin Gjakonovski and ...