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Leny Andrade, Roni Ben-Hur: Alegria de Viver
by Angelo Leonardi
Tra le voci storiche della musica brasiliana, Leny Andrade è una delle meno note al pubblico internazionale. Eppure è tra le massime interpreti della musica sudamericana e lo conferma -all'età di 72 anni -in questo ultimo album, registrato in duo col chitarrista Roni Ben-Hur. Sorretta da un timbro dalla venatura polverosa, che negli anni ha aggiunto ...
Nicola Guazzaloca: Tecniche Arcaiche Live at Angelica
by Neri Pollastri
Registrato a Bologna durante il festival Angelica nel maggio del 2014, questo lavoro documenta una performance solitaria di Nicola Guazzaloca divisa in due sezioni. La prima, di poco meno di un quarto d'ora, è marcatamente rumoristica, fa uso di oggetti che modificano il suono del piano ed è quasi priva di linee pianistiche convenzionali. ...
Empirical: Connection
by Glenn Astarita
This is a young and intensely hip quartet who received a MOBO (Music of Black Origin) award in 2010 for Best Jazz Act in the UK, yet Connection is the musicians inaugural effort for USA-based Cuneiform Records. Similarities to the output of fellow countrymen, saxophonist Django Bates and Led Bib may be in order, primarily due ...
Steve Kuhn: At This Time...
by Budd Kopman
The wonderful and deeply satisfying At This Time... brings together pianist Steve Kuhn leading a trio comprised of electric bassist Steve Swallow and the ubiquitous (and always smiling drummer) Joey Baron. The immediate impulse for the recording was an extended set by this trio at Birdland, in New York City in 2015. Swallow and ...
Alabama Mike: Upset The Status Quo
by James Nadal
There is a famous song about blessing the child that's got his own. It was written at a time when making it independently was quite an achievement, though it can still be applied to musicians today. Alabama Mike (Michael Benjamin) was a truck driver that by luck and fate, in 1999, became a soul singer who's ...
Danny Mixon: Pass It On
by Chris M. Slawecki
You'd think that a pianist who's solidly served as sideman for such pillars of the jazz community as Charles Mingus, Betty Carter, Kenny Dorham, Grant Green and others (including Afro-Cuban firebrands Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers), would be at least somewhat famous. But since his first performances in the mid-1970s, pianist Danny Mixon has maintained ...
Alfio Sgalambro: Cahier de Voyages
by Alberto Bazzurro
Cahier de Voyages è il secondo album di un musicista tanto appartato quanto meritevole di attenzione come il siciliano Alfio Sgalambro. E mai titolo fu più appropriato, visto che nell'ora abbondante del disco trovano posto composizioni -nel senso più pieno della parola, per quanto il lessico jazzistico non ne sia certo assente, così come alcuni suoi ...
Marc Jufer Immersion Quartet: The Diving Man
by Luigi Sforza
Spesso è possibile individuare notevoli elementi di riflessione osservando con attenzione i particolari che contraddistinguono l'immagine di copertina di un disco. Imbattersi nella fotografia di quattro musicisti, che con i loro rispettivi strumenti si lasciano ritrarre vestiti in abito nero, cravatta uguale e camicia bianca, farebbe pensare ad una musica attenta alle etichette, ben confezionata, ...
Martin Perret's L'Anderer: Don't Try You Are
by Bruce Lindsay
The moody and mystical Don't Try You Are is a concept album--"the musical investigation of the murder of a mysterious man in an indefinite country just after a war." The music--written by drummer Perret--is high on atmosphere and mystery, often dark and sometimes unsettling. It's not an album to encourage an outbreak of dancing, but it ...
Eleonore Oppenheim: Home
by Karl Ackermann
The high-concept and experimental nature of Home builds in a level of musicality that shines through peripheral effects. A big part of the charm in bassist Eleonore Oppenheim's solo debut lies in the variety of ways she uses her core instrument to interact with electronics, noises and vocal components. The Julliard alumni has worked with a ...
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