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Blaise Siwula / Dom Minasi: The Sunshine Don't Mind My Singing

Read "The Sunshine Don't Mind My Singing" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 5, 2015

Good music does not come out of nowhere. It grows from tradition and experience. This is especially evident in a genre like jazz where the use of improvisation is crucial. Improvisation, at least the interesting kind, has echoes of the past. The exciting thing as a listener is to hear how the musical ...

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Steve Lacy: Cycles

by AAJ Staff
January 5, 2015

Cycles è il risultato della meritoria azione filologica di Martin Davidson, che, recuperando quindici inediti, ricostruisce tre “cicli" di composizioni soliste di Steve Lacy della seconda metà degli anni Settanta. Il primo, composto da otto temi è “Shots," già registrato in LP per la Musica Records nel 1977 a Parigi, in duo con ...

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Dayna Stephens: Peace

Read "Peace" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
January 5, 2015

C'è un gruppo stellare accanto al sassofonista Dayna Stephens per il suo quinto disco da leader e il risultato non poteva che essere pregevole per equilibrio, lirismo e adesione ai valori fondanti del jazz moderno. Il percorso musicale è quello di un concept album caratterizzato da una precisa linea espressiva: undici ballad di autori vari (c'è ...

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The Westerlies: Wish the Children Would Come on Home

Read "Wish the Children Would Come on Home" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 5, 2015

Due trombe, due tromboni quattro fiati che soffiano le note della musica di Wayne Horvitz, presente con le sue tastiere in qualche brano, ma in maniera discreta, in punta di piedi, ad assicurare un contatto fisico con la sua musica da dietro le quinte, per non disturbare e lasciare massima libertà ai giovani interpreti. È questo ...

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Re-Evolution Band: The Dark Side of the Wall. 1979-2013

Read "The Dark Side of the Wall. 1979-2013" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza
January 5, 2015

Ci sono dischi che per loro natura richiederebbero un intervento critico d'equipe: un team di specialisti di vari settori musicali in grado di individuarne le caratteristiche e orientarne il senso. Da qualsiasi angolazione si guardi, The Drak Side of the Wall. 1970-2013 è un disco fittamente costruito, linguisticamente asimmetrico, spiazzante come può essere la musica ...

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Walking Distance: Neighborhood

Read "Neighborhood" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 4, 2015

If any group can turn the concept of ebb and flow into a fully realized art form, it's Walking Distance. This New York-based foursome thrives on architectural schemes connected to the expansion and contraction of musical materials, presenting sounds that can appear disjointed, yet demonstrating congruence in their expression(s) all the while. Different players push and ...

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Morton Feldman: Two Pianos and other pieces, 1953-1969

Read "Two Pianos and other pieces, 1953-1969" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
January 4, 2015

It has become a truism that AMM pianist John Tilbury is an interpreter of Morton Feldman's music par excellence--one of the very best, if not the best. Such opinions are backed up by his Feldman recordings such as Morton Feldman: All Piano (LondonHALL, 1999), Triadic Memories--Notti Stellate A Vagli (Atopos, 2008) and For Philip Guston (Atopos, ...

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Archie Shepp: Archie Shepp And The New York Contemporary Five

Read "Archie Shepp And The New York Contemporary Five" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
January 4, 2015

The New Thing is now old hat; all those squawking saxophones, blipping trumpets and discordant piano explorations a thing of the past. With its arrival in the early 1960s, jazz reached the end of its historical road. The New Thing wasn't The Shape Of Jazz To Come, as an Ornette Coleman album title ...

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Barker / Dunmall / Dahl: Luddite

Read "Luddite" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 4, 2015

This is the second album emanating from celebrated British saxophonist, Paul Dunmall's 2012 visit to New York City, performing at the Vision Festival, and follows his initial 2013 appearance for New Atlantis Records on a date led by guitarist Edward Ricart, titled Chameleon. Hence, top New York City-based improvisers, drummer Andrew Barker and bassist Tim Dahl--the ...

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Ben Tyree/BT3: Burn it! LIVE

Read "Burn it! LIVE" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2015

Even prior to moving to New York from his native Washington DC in 2002 Ben Tyree was genre-bending in Miscellaneous Flux, fusing hip-hop, jazz and punk vocabulary. His outright debut as leader, re:Vision (Sonic Architectures, 2010) was a hard-grooving take on contemporary jazz-fusion featuring DJ Logic and John Medeski. That template flew out the window on ...