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Alessandro Fadini: A Dark and Stormy Day
by Dave Wayne
Amongst the firehose-like blast of CDs and downloads aimed at me last summer was A Dark and Stormy Day, the debut album by Italian-born pianist and composer Alessandro Fadini. A new name to me, Fadini was educated to be a mathematician and is apparently self-taught on piano. Don't let that fool you, though. A protégé of ...
Al Muirhead: Northern Adventures
by Jack Bowers
When you've been a musician as long as Al Muirhead has, you not only earn many friends in the business, you also recognize who among them can play. For Northern Adventures, Muirhead's second album as leader of his own group, the eighty-one-year-old Canadian trumpeter assembled a who's who of the finest musicians his country has to ...
DKV Trio / The Thing: Collider
by John Sharpe
Recorded live at Krakow Jazz Autumn in 2014, Collider unites two of the hardest hitting contemporary outfits in an off the wall summit. It's notable that all the members of the DKV Trio and The Thing, except bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, have a history of working with the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, the large improvising collective ...
Patti Cudd: Eos
by Karl Ackermann
Percussionist Patti Cudd performs as a soloist and a chamber musician and is a member of the ensemble Zeitgeist. She teaches music at the University of Wisconsin and the College of St. Benedict & St. John's University. She holds a PhD. In Musical Arts and a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. As ...
Jean Aussanaire, Eric Brochard, Clément Gibert: Déraisonnables
by Alberto Bazzurro
Da un'idea di Michel Autran, vignaiolo del Vouvrillon, comunità in val di Loira, e con i buoni uffici dell'ARFI, benemerita (in italiano Associazione alla Ricerca di un Folklore Immaginario, com'è noto), di cui Aussanaire, Brochard e Gibert fanno parte, prende le mosse quest'ottimo album, che contiene la musica composta (e registrata nel marzo 2016) per accompagnare ...
Bebo Ferra Trio: Voltage
by Neri Pollastri
Torna a pubblicare a proprio nome Bebo Ferra, uno tra i nostri più interessanti chitarristi. E lo fa alla testa di un classico trio con tastiere -quelle di Gianluca Di Ienno -e batteria -con le bacchette di Nicola Angelucci. Classico anche il repertorio, otto brani perlopiù dello stesso Ferra, tranne quello di apertura, di Di Ienno, ...
Carlos Bica & Azul featuring Frank Möbus and Jim Black: More Than This
by Henning Bolte
Azul, comprising Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica, guitarist Frank Möbus from Germany and drummer Jim Black from New York, is one of those trios around with a highly notable profile and characteristic signature. No doubt many dedicated music lovers will have their own history with this group that has been active now for more than 20 years. ...
Greg Abate with the Tim Ray Trio: Road to Forever
by Jack Bowers
Greg Abate's name isn't often broached when debating the merits of contemporary jazz saxophonists. It should be. While perhaps best known for his work on alto, the Rhode Island-based swinger proves on Road to Forever, recorded with his regular working trio, not only that his talents on soprano, tenor sax and flute are exemplary, but that ...
Greg Diamond: Avenida Graham
by Edward Blanco
Brooklyn-based jazz guitarist Greg Diamond issues his most culturally diverse musical mosaic on Avenida Graham reflecting a blend of jazz and the Latin sound that has been an influential part of his life. Being half Eastern European Jewish and half Colombian, Diamond long ago learned to appreciate the Latin sounds listening to the music of Hector ...
TAI No-Orchestra: TAI Fest #1 (Vol.1&2)
by Nicola Negri
TAI No-Orchestra is a multi-disciplinary project comprising some of the best improvisers of the Italian scene, both historical figures like Filippo Monico or Roberto Del Piano and new talents like Silvia Bolognesi and Paolo Botti. The main originators for this project are musicians Del Piano, Massimo Falascone and photographer Roberto Masotti; the name “TAI" refers to ...
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