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Bobby Avey: Inhuman Wilderness
by Neri Pollastri
Un trio che si allarga a quartetto in metà delle tracce interpreta Inhuman Wilderness, quinto lavoro a nome del trentaduenne pianista Bobby Avey, ancora poco noto da noi ma piuttosto affermato negli USA. Giustamente, si può dire ascoltando l'album, che ne documenta le idee musicali moderne e inquiete, ma anche la maestria alla tastiera.
The Freexielanders: Looking Back Playing Forward
by Alberto Bazzurro
Due pezzi da novanta dell'avanguardia storica come Eugenio Colombo e Giancarlo Schiaffini, uno che da un po' di anni nel ramo si distingue a sua volta come Alberto Popolla, più altri cinque colleghi di età ed estrazione varia, hanno deciso di ribattezzarsi The Freexielanders (nome eloquentissimo che non ci attardiamo a illustrare) e lanciarsi in un ...
Equally Stupid: Escape from The Unhappy Society
by Anthony Shaw
This second album by Equally Stupid sees the same transnational crew of three gents working in the same vein as their first Exploding Head, blending Rögnvaldsson's astringent guitar with saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen's this time more mellow tenor. David Meier is still holding things together with a strong physicality behind the drums, but from the cover onwards ...
Heather Bambrick: You'll Never Know
by Dan Bilawsky
You know those stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks moments that only music can elicit? Those oh-so-rare occurrences where sound and intention hypnotize, leaving a permanent mark on the soul? This writer experienced one of those sonic epiphanies in hearing Heather Bambrick's enthralling version of “Far From The Home I Love." It's a song that I've been relatively indifferent about in ...
Nicolas Kummert: La Diversité
by Roger Farbey
Belgian saxophonist Nicolas Kummert has been influenced by African music since a two month stay in Senegal at the age of 17, where he collaborated with musicians from that country and later from Benin, Mali, Kenya, Sao Tomé, Morocco and Tunisia. He met award-winning Blue Note guitarist Lionel Loueke during a recording session for Beninese singer ...
Doug Munro And La Pompe Attack: The Harry Warren Song Book
by Roger Farbey
Doug Munro is the great nephew of Harry Warren who was the first major American songwriter to compose specifically for films. All the tunes on this CD are from movies with the exception of two Munro originals, “Blues For Harry" and “You Again" and barring those two and “Nagasaki," were all written in the 1930s and ...
Francois Carrier: OUTgoing
by Budd Kopman
In the realm of Western music, the role of the performer has been rather circumscribed. In Classical music, the composer is king and the range of “allowed" expression rather limited. For most of its history, jazz performers relied on tunes as the basis for their improvisations, and thus, the composer (or tunesmith) was still ...
Granularities: Scenes From A Trialogue
by Neri Pollastri
Quando l'improvvisazione si fa Epica. Nato da un progetto specifico, frutto della ricerca svolta da Lawrence Casserley sugli elaboratori di segnale, sviluppatosi attraverso alcuni concerti in ambienti acusticamente suggestivi e perciò previsto inizialmente in una chiesetta situata nei pressi dell'abitazione del musicista inglese, questo lavoro è invece stato registrato nel settembre del 2010 nell'abitazione ...
The Bad Plus: It's Hard
by Luca Canini
Bellino. Con un paio di cose decisamente riuscite. Ma che pochissimo aggiunge (e nulla toglie) a quel che i Bad Plus hanno detto, confermato e ribadito nel corso di quindici anni di più che onorata carriera. Fine della recensione. Nel senso che quel che leggerete da qui in poi potrebbe esservi utile nel caso in cui ...
Mariah Parker Indo Latin Jazz: Live in Concert
by David Becker
Traditional Indian music, various Latin styles and contemporary jazz have negotiated an unlikely but productive friendship in the Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble, a periodically convened combo of top Northern California jazz and world music players led by pianist Mariah Parker. She reunites the unit for Live in Concert (Ancient Future.com Records, 2017), a collection ...
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