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Steven Feifke: Peace In Time

Read "Peace In Time" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

How do you rate a jazz album? Is it about strength and depth of improvisation--"the sound of surprise," as the late, great journalist Whitney Balliet might say? Is it about structural intricacy, harmonic integrity, rhythmic feel, and melodic communication? Or is it musical ingenuity and individual personalities at play that help to make or break a ...

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Steve Olson: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Non più di primissimo pelo, il batterista Steve Olson firma il proprio esordio discografico in prima persona dedicandolo al duetto con partner differenti (in totale sei). Non essendo troppo spinto l'acceleratore sui contrasti dinamici, all'interno del singolo brano ma tutto sommato anche nel totale (prevale una sostanziale pacatezza), è praticamente fisiologico che sia l'aspetto timbrico a ...

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Roberto Bonati and Diana Torto: Heureux Comme Avec Une Femme

Read "Heureux Comme Avec Une Femme" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

There are few musical things as exciting as a top-class vocalist fronting a full-on big band. Just a few. One of those is a top-class vocalist paired with a single, equally talented, instrumentalist. Heureux Comme Avec Une Femme provides that form of musical excitement courtesy of Italian double bassist and composer Roberto Bonati and vocalist Diana ...

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Bjorn Ingelstam: Bjorn Ingelstam

Read "Bjorn Ingelstam" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Take a close look at the cover of Swedish trumpeter Björn Ingelstam's self-titled debut album and you will notice a pair of glasses in the top right corner. This a not coincidence because the man behind the record, Brian Rindom Larsen, is an optician and runs the shop Fiol Optik where the music was also recorded. ...

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Tas Cru: You Keep the Money

Read "You Keep the Money" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

"This ain't your mama and daddy's blues, no. It ain't no Son House...“ For his fifth release of original material, guitarist Tas Cru explores every blues nook and cranny there is. An even dozen songs provides Cru with the creative fodder to display the contemporary funk of the title piece, to the minor-key ...

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Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975 (Livelove Series Vol 1)

Read "Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975 (Livelove Series Vol 1)" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Guitarist Larry Coryell is unquestionably one of the pioneers of jazz/rock fusion, incorporating rock elements as early as the mid-1960s with the group The Free Spirits, and later with vibraphonist Gary Burton. He never attained the recognition of many who followed, but the Eleventh House was an attempt to attract the same audience as groups like ...

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Zeno De Rossi Trio: Kepos

Read "Kepos" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Uscito in anteprima nel 2013 in allegato alla rivista Musica Jazz e riedito nel 2014 per dalla El Gallo Rojo Records (con una traccia in più, l'ultima), Kepos è senza dubbio uno dei lavori migliori usciti nel nostro paese negli ultimi tempi. E la cosa non può stupire, dato che ha preso forma nella testa di ...

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David Virelles: Mbókò

Read "Mbókò" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini

Certo che ne ha di talento David Virelles. A quintali, a vagonate. Da affittare, vendere e persino subappaltare. Nell'ottobre del 2012, quando la Pi Recordings mise il timbro su Continuum, secondo disco del pianista di origini cubane, non furono in molti ad accorgersi che era nata una stella. Oggi, a due anni abbondanti ...

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Lucky Peterson: I'm Back Again

Read "I'm Back Again" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Chi ha già il cofanetto Live at the 55 Arts Club Berlin del 2012, comprendente 3 DVD e 2 CD, può evitare di acquistare questo disco che risulta esserne una selezione stringata, con le esecuzioni del solo bluesman di Buffalo. Per coprire tutti i possibili segmenti del mercato (anche il pubblico occasionale o chi ...

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Christian Pabst Trio + 7: Song of Opposites

Read "Song of Opposites" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Interessante la configurazione dell'ensemble adottata dal pianista tedesco Christian Pabst nella realizzazione di Song of Opposites. Il collaudato piano-trio del leader viene affiancato in cinque brani da un trio di archi, in un paio di brani da un trio di fiati, mentre “Point Ephemere" vede all'opera l'ensemble al gran completo con l'ulteriore apporto di una voce. ...


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