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Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella: Wild Dance
by Giuseppe Segala
Lo smalto di Enrico Rava resta inossidabile. Alimenta anzi la propria forza con l'incontro di nuovi musicisti, che il trombettista inserisce con il proverbiale fiuto nel suo scenario artistico. In questo Wild Dance è in azione il nuovo quartetto, forte di giovani nomi di alto interesse come il chitarrista Francesco Diodati, il contrabbassista Gabriele Evangelista, già ...
Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart
by Vincenzo Roggero
L'attuale Dave Douglas Quintet prese forma nel 2012 con l'album Be Still, registrato per commemorare la scomparsa della madre del leader e incentrato su sei folk song eseguite durante la cerimonia funebre. Nel 2013 fece seguito Time Travel, album dai connotati più tipicamente jazzistici, seppur, come nello stile di Douglas, sempre avventuroso. Sulla stessa lunghezza d'onda ...
Lucilla Galeazzi, Elena Ledda, Ginevra Di Marco, Alessio Lega, Andrea Salvadori, Gigi Biolcati, Riccardo Tesi: Bella Ciao (50 anni)
by Neri Pollastri
Era il 20 giugno del 1964 quando il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, al Festival di Spoleto, mise in scena uno spettacolo che fu una pietra miliare del “folk revival" e della storia della canzone popolare italiana: Bella Ciao. Vi venivano rappresentate alcune delle più significative canzoni raccolte “sul campo" nel decennio precedente e vi prendevano parte artisti ...
Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana: Maggio
by Neri Pollastri
Quinto album per Banditaliana, storico quartetto dell'organettista Riccardo Tesi, che qui vede la presenza anche di una moltitudine di ospiti che vanno dal pianoforte jazzistico di Alessandro Lanzoni ai ritmi balcanici di Fanfara Tirana. Cotanta varietà di accompagnatori non inficia l'identità del gruppo, anzi ne esalta la poliedricità che la caratterizza da sempre, pur ...
Gabriel Vicéns: Days
by Roger Farbey
Gabriel Vicéns recorded his first album Point in Time in 2012, when the guitarist was only 23 and which featured jazz bass legend Eddie Gomez. Days, his second album was recorded in his home town of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He currently teaches guitar at a collegiate level in the Music Department of the Interamerican University ...
Humphrey Lyttelton: In Canada
by Hrayr Attarian
The most prolific of the British trad jazz revivalists, trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton had a long and varied career both as a musician and a broadcaster. In 1983 Lyttelton lead a Toronto based group on a session for Sackville interpreting eight songs penned by him. In Canada now reissued on Delmark showcases not only Lyttleton's superb trumpet ...
Duke Ellington: At The Cotton Club
by Chris Mosey
These recordings by Duke Ellington from 1937-39 emphasize his unique place in the history of jazz. On the eve of the Swing Era, they open with a solo piano piece. Ellington introduces it as “Swing Session" but it's actually “Soda Fountain Rag," the first piece he ever wrote, in 1913, aged 14, while ...
Stolen Hearts: Dirty Southern Soul
by C. Michael Bailey
Multi-instrumentalists Pam Taylor and Robert Johnson, Jr. tacitly make up the durable blues-R&B-soul duo Stolen Hearts. Piedmont born and bred, the two fell in love and decided to make music together. This fortuitous coupling of talent has led to a serious survey of American music aptly called Dirty Southern Soul. The two trade duties singing, both ...
Lizz Wright: Freedom & Surrender
by James Nadal
Few musicians, that have been commercially successful and artistically praised, have, at the height of their popularity, decided to take a hiatus to discover themselves. Renowned expressive vocalist Lizz Wright, did just that, and guided by a warrior spirit, propelled her music into a renewed direction on Freedom and Surrender. After a string of acclaimed records ...
Galen Weston: Plugged In
by Karl Ackermann
Moving from his high school listening experiences of groups like ACDC and Kiss, guitarist Galen Weston discovered jazz through the influences of well-established guitarists such as Pat Metheny and Mike Stern. After attending the highly-regarded jazz program at Toronto's Humber College, Weston opted out of music for more than ten years while pursuing other business interests. ...
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