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Juan Pablo Carletti/Tony Malaby/Christopher Hoffman: Niño/Brujo

Read "Niño/Brujo" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 30, 2015

A funny thing happened on the way to a free jazz trio session. What's funny is that leader Juan Pablo Carletti brought seven unique compositions for his trio to perform. The Argentinian-born, New York-based drummer recruited tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby and cellist Christopher Hoffman for this recording. An inconspicuous drummer-led session. Carletti's last decade ...

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Meeco: Souvenirs Of Love

Read "Souvenirs Of Love" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 29, 2015

Meeco doesn't skimp on star power when he puts a record together. The personnel listings from his previous projects--Amargo Mel (Connector Records, 2009), Perfume E Caricias (Connector Records, 2010), and Beauty Of The Night (Connector Records, 2012)--read like the invite list for the NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony: Jazz elders--bassists Ron Carter and Buster Williams, flautist ...

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Jeff Hamilton Trio: Great American Songs Through the Years

Read "Great American Songs Through the Years" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
January 29, 2015

In a sonic climate full of studio fixes, it's always refreshing to hear something real--especially when it's executed with this level of excellence. At this point the Jeff Hamilton Trio has been together for over a decade, and it shows in their relaxed and seamless interplay. On this CD, a limited reissue of a 2013 Japanese ...

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Lisa Parrott: Round Tripper

Read "Round Tripper" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 29, 2015

Alto saxophonist/free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, in the recording studio for bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma's For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010), said to a band about to break into a tune: “Fellas. Fellas. Can you hear me? Forget the notes and get to the idea." New York-based, Australian-bred alto and baritone saxophonist Lisa Parrott seems to ...

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Makiko Hirabayashi/Flemming Agerskov: Binocular

Read "Binocular" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
January 29, 2015

Binocular is an extraordinary piece of musical art. Pianist Makiko Hirabayashi has a distinct, recognizable style of composition and performance. Her music has a kind of floating quality created by melodic phrases and lines which imply tonality rather than stating it, phrase lengths and rhythmic accents which further weaken any overt tonality, plus a ...

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David Buchbinder & Odessa/Havana featuring Hilario Duran: Walk to the Sea

Read "Walk to the Sea" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
January 29, 2015

Dopo l'apprezzato album Odessa/Havana del 2007, il trombettista canadese David Buchbinder e il pianista cubano Hilario Duran tornano a registrare la loro originalmente eclettica proposta di musica “ebraico-cubana." La formazione che li accompagna è ampia e variegata, ovviamente ricca di percussionisti--mai però presenti tutti assieme--e in alcune tracce caratterizzata dalla presenza di cantanti--in particolare della brava ...

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Eugenio Colombo, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Luigi Marino: Totem

Read "Totem" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 29, 2015

Due precisazioni per cominciare. La prima: perché il CD s'intitola Totem e gli undici brani che lo compongono (che sono poi libere improvvisazioni) “Tanz" (danze)? Presumibilmente perché il disco è stato registrato (il 1° settembre 2013) al Totemtanz di Roma (o è viceversa...?). La seconda: c'era una volta il trio SIC (Schiaffini Iannaccone Colombo), che realizzò ...

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Chris Klaxton: Starcode

by James Nadal
January 28, 2015

Oftentimes the back story behind the motivation and inspiration for songs compiled on a record is just as fascinating as the music itself. Case in point is trumpeter Chris Klaxton, whose interest in subjects as diverse as astrophysics, the intellectual philosophies of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff, and spiritual continuity of life, culminated in his recording Starcode. Though ...

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Lisa Parrott: Round Tripper

Read "Round Tripper" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 28, 2015

More than ten thousand miles separate New York and Australia, but saxophonist Lisa Parrott's music bridges that gap. On Round Tripper, the Australian-born, New York-based Parrott makes music that speaks to her connections to both locales and the bonds that she's made in both places over the years. Round Tripper finds Parrot working ...

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Gene Segal: Mental Images

Read "Mental Images" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
January 28, 2015

Guitarist and composer Gene Segal has put the intervening years between Mental Images and his recording debut, Hypnotic (Innova Records, 2009), to good use. While Segal still loves the funk, as the opening “Healing Feeling" definitively shows, the remainder of the album doesn't easily fit into any one musical pigeonhole;unless there's a category at your local ...