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PC Energetic: Illusion
by Glenn Astarita
Young German guitar-slinger Philip Czarnecki's influences derive from the rock and jazz idioms, duly exercised on his quite laudable debut album. He communicates a comprehensive scope and vivid imaginative powers via a mature outlook while working within hard-hitting jazz fusion, funk and slamming rock grooves. His fluent jazz articulations and shifting thematic overtures pose a sense ...
Massimo Barbiero: Simone de Beauvoir
by Alberto Bazzurro
Diciamo subito che prima ancora della grande scrittrice compagna di Jean-Paul Sartre, la dedicataria del disco è una gatta (del resto evocata in copertina, e ritratta direttamente nell'interno), purtroppo in memoria. Secondo particolare, senz'altro da anteporre a ogni altra considerazione: il presente lavoro, realizzato fra settembre e novembre 2014, dà finalmente voce nella maniera più esplicita ...
Torbjörn Zetterberg: Och Den Stora Frågan
by Maurizio Zerbo
Di Torbjörn Zetterberg si ne erano perse le tracce, dopo le ottime prove solistiche negli anni '90. I sette anni di assenza dalla scena musicale non ne hanno offuscato la verve strumentale e compositiva. Ne è una buona testimonianza il CD in esame, ispirato al free-jazz degli anni '60. Lo si capisce dall'enunciazione tematica del tema ...
Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group: Folk Five
by Karl Ackermann
The substantial music community in Eastern Europe has a particular affinity for incorporating elements of regional and ethnic music into modern jazz. Gypsy jazz, klezmer and various strains of ethno-fusion have often been combined so that regional influences and free jazz serve as a shared platform, at times addressing political and social causes. For Polish saxophonist ...
Marshall Gilkes & The WDR Big Band: Köln
by Dan Bilawsky
In jazz journalism, it's de rigueur for writers to trace the evolution of an artist when covering their work. But encountering the likes of Marshall Gilkes makes that difficult: The Juilliard-trained trombonist seemed to arrive on the New York scene as a fully-formed entity, projecting a warm and full-bodied tone quality and possessing astounding lip flexibility. ...
Jeff Sipe Trio: Jeff Sipe Trio featuring Mike Seal and Taylor Lee
by Mark Sullivan
Drummer Jeff Sipe was a member of Colonel Bruce Hampton's Aquarium Rescue Unit and has played with many other musicians. But probably his most visible association was the power trio with Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane, followed by a more recent trio with guitarist Alex Machacek. So he is clearly very comfortable in an improvising rock/jazz ...
Art Pepper: Neon Art, Volume 1
by C. Michael Bailey
This is not a new release. It is a sensible one. In 2012, Omnivore Records released Art Pepper: Neon Art, Volume 1 in colored vinyl, taking advantage of the current baby boomer infatuation with the inferior medium of our childhood. In the case of Pepper, the medium is not the message. This is music that demands ...
ZZ Quartet: Beyond the Lines
by Glenn Astarita
Three Europeans and celebrated American drummer Adam Nussbaum stir up some chutzpah via the guitar-accordion based format. In recent times the accordion's role in jazz-centric vernaculars has been expanding. And while this quartet doesn't invent a newfound genre, its spunky and articulate disposition, containing all original compositions engender a sophisticated outlook. With alternating tempos and several ...
Glauco Venier: Dodici musiche per dodici quadri
by Neri Pollastri
Un piano solo un po' particolare, questo di Glauco Venier, perché non completamente “solo": assieme a lui c'è infatti il pittore Giorgio Celiberti: i suoi quadri fungono da ispirazione per i primi sei brani del CD, mentre i successivi sei sono a loro volta serviti da ispirazione per altrettanti quadri del pittore. Le riproduzioni di tutti ...
Hilary Gardner: The Great City
by Angelo Leonardi
Nel traboccante panorama delle nuove jazz singers, Hilary Gardner ha saputo emergere già con questo debutto, che spicca per la sentita adesione al jazz anni quaranta/cinquanta senza timore d'apparire demodé. La Gardner è una suadente interprete di ballads che disegna con profonda musicalità, purezza espressiva ed elegante chiarore timbrico secondo i modelli di Julie London, Peggy ...
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