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Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Oliv & Familie

Read "Oliv & Familie" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Issued twenty years after his death, aged just fifty-four, Oliv & Familie serves as a fitting reminder of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's charismatic and controversial drummer and leader, John Stevens. Not only does this release return to circulation the two “Oliv" tracks that constituted the SME's eponymous third album, originally issued on vinyl by Giorgio Gomelsky's ...

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Grencsó Open Collective: Flat

Read "Flat" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

István Grencsó, uno dei protagonisti del jazz ungherese degli ultimi trent'anni, fondatore nel 1984 dell'Open Collective, nel novembre 2012 è riuscito ad incidere questo CD grazie all'aiuto del Fondo Nazionale della Cultura Ungherese: un riconoscimento invidiabile per un musicista creativo, che vede così riconosciuta da un'istituzione ufficiale la qualità del suo lavoro. Grencsó è autore ...

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Shawn Maxwell: Shawn Maxwell's Alliance

Read "Shawn Maxwell's Alliance" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo

Musicista emergente del panorama jazzistico di Chicago, il contraltistaShawn Maxwell ha nel suo spettro espressivo un grande caleidoscopio di idee. Come il suo modello ispiratore (Frank Zappa), egli predilige una pratica musicale aleatoria che ha nell'indeterminatezza dei suoni e delle atmosfere la sua principale cifra distintiva. Questo suo CD per big band presenta una formazione atipica ...

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Jonathan Parker: Interloper

Read "Interloper" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Saxophonist Jonathan Parker has covered quite a lot of ground since graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2008: Shortly thereafter, he relocated to Shanghai, China, carving out a performing life for himself there. Then, he was accepted into the Kennedy Center-sponsored Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program in 2010. Parker moved to New York City ...

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Colin Trusedell: Quartet of Jazz Death

Read "Quartet of Jazz Death" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Bassist Colin Trusedell made his recording debut with the very fine Some of My Best Friends Are... Divas. This recording, by relative unknowns, late of Armed Forces service, put together a cogent and well-focused jazz vocal recording that intelligently surveyed the American Songbook. Scoring such a success, what does Trusedell do for a follow-up? He goes ...

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Dave Liebman: Ceremony

Read "Ceremony" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal

The most distinguished characteristic of Afro-Caribbean music--as well as its greatest contribution to the jazz idiom--has been the drums. If we take this one step further, the Afro-Cuban tradition of drumming has had the highest degree of influence, and has been readily identifiable, since the Latin dance crazes of the mid twentieth century brought these diverse ...

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Sonny Simmons: Leaving Knowledge, Wisdom and Brilliance / Chasing the Bird?

Read "Leaving Knowledge, Wisdom and Brilliance / Chasing the Bird?" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

American alto sax and English horn (Cor Anglais) player Sonny Simmons needs no introduction. Now 81 years old, Simmons was a key player in America's free jazz eruption in the 1960s. He released his first solo albums on ESP- Disk, the exponent label of free jazz and recorded or played with legendary musicians like Eric Dolphy, ...

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Giovanni Tommaso Quartet: Conversation with My Soul

Read "Conversation with My Soul" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo

Una ventata rinfrescante e rinvigorente di aria fresca nel jazz italiano. Si potrebbe definire così questo CD allestito da Giovanni Tommaso. Il suo proverbiale fiuto nell'individuare musicisti emergenti ha fatto centro ancora una volta. Per l'occasione sono stati cooptati tre giovani talenti del panorama nazionale, tutti destinati ad una luminosa carriera. Come era lecito attendersi, è ...

Article: Album Review

The Aperturistic Trio: Truth and Actuality

Read "Truth and Actuality" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza

L'Aperturistic Trio possiede la vocazione a esprimere concetti mainstream con rigore tecnico impeccabile e superficiale tendenza a modernizzare la tavolozza espressiva. Senza sconvolgere nulla nel panorama generale, Truth and Actuality stabilisce l'assoluta centralità del fraseggio boppistico e la conseguente aderenza ad un'idea di pulsazione swing. Non mancano aperture di credito al free -come nella ballad ...

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George Cables: Icons and Influences

Read "Icons and Influences" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo

Pochi CD come questo trasmettono all'ascoltatore emozioni e swing di incommensurabile intensità. È questa la chiave di lettura di un magnifica prova pianistica, sviluppatasi nel segno di una olimpica leggerezza di tocco e fluidità di fraseggio. Una quintessenza della raffinatezza armonica e della tecnica sopraffina, non gridata solo sussurrata. Una lezione di jazz da parte del ...


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