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Brian Lynch, Emmet Cohn: Questioned Answer
by Maurizio Zerbo
Per l'ennesima volta Brian Lynch si conferma come uno dei migliori trombettisti jazz in circolazione. Questo CD mette in bella mostra tutte le sue potenzialità artistiche, facendone cogliere tutta quella poetica espressività che solo i grandi musicisti possiedono. Alla testa di un superbo quartetto, Lynch sfodera doti artistiche che non hanno nulla da invidiare a quelle ...
Soni Sfardati: Sāqiya
by Alberto Bazzurro
La buona prova offerta nel suo complesso da Gaia Mattiuzzi (per l'occasione ospite del duo Cassia/Quinci) non riesce a riscattare del tutto le sorti di un album per altri versi piuttosto deludente, che sposa input etnici, contemporaneo-colti, rock e avant jazz con estrema disinvoltura, scivolando alla fin fine su quel tot di calligrafismo e di genericità ...
Mud Morganfield: For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters
by Walter Atkins
For this CD release, Mud Morganfield pays tribute and shows love to his father, the legendary blues artist Muddy Waters. Listening to the Mud Morganfield and Kim Wilson disc For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters, the energy of the first track Gone to Main Street" is impressive. Morganfield's deep bluesy vocals are richly supported ...
Kirk Knuffke: Arms & Hands
by Mark Corroto
Sometime, watch children as they eat the M&Ms. They will separate the colors into several piles--green, red, brown, yellow, orange, and blue. It's not that each color tastes different, except for maybe blue--I don't remember ever seeing that color before. Nonetheless, they go about savoring each color batch as an independent experience. Those little candies come ...
Ryan Truesdell Gil Evans Project: Lines of Color
by Dan McClenaghan
The biggest ribbons in composer/arranger Gil Evans' (1912-1988) resume are three groundbreaking Columbia Records albums he recorded with trumpeter Miles Davis: Miles Ahead (1958); Porgy and Bess (1959); and Sketches of Spain (1960). These were orchestral jazz of the finest caliber, recorded a decade after Evans' earlier work with Davis on the seminal Capitol Records set ...
-isq: Too
by Bruce Lindsay
Too is the second album from London-based quartet -isq. No surprise there. The slightly odd presentation of the band's name remains in place and continues to trouble the usually faultless activities of the planet's internet search engines. The line-up from debut album -isq (Cheesepeas Records, 2013) is still intact. The band's distinctive every silver lining has ...
Ernesto Cervini: Turboprop
by Edward Blanco
Toronto jazz drummer Ernesto Cervini presents his fourth album as leader with the high-flying Turboprop offering a sophisticated modern jazz sound in a ten-piece repertoire of originals and standard material from the likes of Charlie Parker and Keith Jarrett among others. A robust drummer with a forceful presence on the drums, Cervini's style is reminiscent of ...
Kekko Fornarelli: Outrush
by Angelo Leonardi
"Il cono d'Otranto non è molto diverso in termini ambientali dalle lande nordeuropee -diceva Kekko Fornarelli qualche mese fa in un'intervista a Musica Jazz" -Dunque capita di poter vivere sensazioni musicali simili...." Nell'organico del pianista pugliese si respira una compostezza e un lirismo che trovano riferimenti in analoghe formazioni contemporanee d'area scandinava o anglosassone ...
Owen Howard: Drum Lore Vol. 2 - More Lore
by Vincenzo Roggero
Scritto (cinque brani), diretto, arrangiato (gli altri cinque brani provenienti da batteristi quali Paul Motian, Tony Williams, etc.) da Owen Howard -batterista pure lui -,Drum Lore vol.2 -More Lore è album che presenta un post-bop fresco, frizzante, ben strutturato, a volte piacevolmente articolato, tutt'altro che noioso. Grazie all'apporto di ottimi musicisti tra cui segnaliamo il veterano ...
Marius Neset: Pinball
by Ian Patterson
Though Marius Neset thrives in small ensemble settings, his writing has increasingly exhibited orchestral ambition, as witnessed on the thrilling Birds (Edition Records, 2013), which saw his quintet augmented by brass, accordion and woodwind instruments to spectacular effect, and on Lion (ACT Music, 2014), a powerful outing with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. The aptly named Pinball ...

