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Tigran Hamasyan: Shadow Theater

Read "Shadow Theater" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 25, 2014

Con questa nuova opera, pubblicata due anni dopo A Fable, Tigran Hamasyan conferma la connessione col folklore armeno in una prospettiva nuova, mostrando d'essere un artista avventuroso e visionario, non solo un magnifico pianista. Eccetto pochi brani folk le musiche sono originali, presentate in una veste tanto innovativa quanto intrisa di valori tradizionali. Il ...

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Matthew Sheens: Untranslatable

Read "Untranslatable" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 25, 2014

With his impressive debut Every Eight Seconds (Self Produced, 2012) garnering universally positive reviews, Australian-born, New York-based pianist Matthew Sheens returns with an even meatier, juicier follow-up. Every Eight Seconds introduced an original composer, one whose melodic and rhythmic ideas championed narrative over virtuosity. There's perhaps more of Sheens the Downbeat poll-winning pianist this time out ...

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Giorgio Occhipinti, Vittorino Curci, String Sextet: Mùseca Lundéne

Read "Mùseca Lundéne" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 25, 2014

Su testi di Vittorino Curci e musiche di Giorgio Occhipinti (qui insolitamente inoperoso come pianista), si sviluppa l'ora e venti abbondante di questo doppio CD, reperibile unicamente sulle varie piattaforme digitali, tipo iTunes, Spotify, Deezer et similia. L'impianto è squisitamente cameristico-contemporaneo, con il contralto di Curci come unico aggancio su atmosfere (e temperature) in qualche misura ...

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Bill O'Connell: Imagine

by John Ephland
November 24, 2014

Bill O'Connell's version of the standard “Willow Weep For Me" is one of those rare items: playing totally against type as a Latin burner with that classic, mesmerizing two-chord piano vamp, the only thing missing would be someone actually trying to sing this lament amidst the happy sprawl of players and arrangement O'Connell's dished up. Unlike ...

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Jennifer Leitham: Future Christmas

Read "Future Christmas" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 24, 2014

The spirit of Christmas past, present and future overspreads this charming holiday album by virtuosic bassist Jennifer Leitham's working trio (Andy Langham, piano; Randy Drake, drums) on which she offsets a program comprised mainly of established seasonal favorites with some tantalizing curves (for example, her own “Future Christmas," a.k.a “The Global Warming Winter Holiday Blues," or ...

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Gabriel Espinosa/Hendrik Meurkens: Samba Little Samba

Read "Samba Little Samba" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
November 24, 2014

Mexican-born bassist Gabriel Espinosa and German-born harmonica specialist Hendrik Meurkens--though coming from vastly different backgrounds--have always had a common passion for the bossa nova and the samba. Continuing their successful collaboration of the past, the two co-leaders join forces once again for another Brazilian musical dance on Samba Little Samba and follow up to their highly-acclaimed ...

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Matt Ulery: In the Ivory

Read "In the Ivory" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 24, 2014

In the Ivory giunge a due anni di distanza dall'eccellente By a Little Light, album nel quale il contrabbassista di Chicago Matt Ulery riuniva alcuni membri del suo insieme cameristico Eight Blackbird e un piano trio di stampo jazzistico per un incisione affascinante e ricca di spunti significativi. Con qualche minima variazione viene riproposto lo stesso ...

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MoFrancesco Quintetto: Piedra Solar

Read "Piedra Solar" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
November 24, 2014

The instantly engaging “Ala'Ad-Din" opens this 70 minute set, the second album by this talented Lisbon-based group. A bass and piano riff confidently introduces “Abraxas" with unison horns taking up the main theme, leader Francesco Valente's electric bass to the fore and Brazilian guest percussionist Marcos Suzano playing pandeiro to great effect. Aline Frazão's ...

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Mirio Cosottini, Tonino Miano: The Inner Life of Residue

Read "The Inner Life of Residue" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
November 24, 2014

Disco ai confini della contemporanea, The Inner Life of Residue è il terzo pubblicato dal duo di Mirio Cosottini e Tonino Miano, dopo gli apprezzati The Curvature of Pace e Cardinal (con Alessio Pisani al fagotto e Andrea Melani alla batteria). Registrato a New York, città di residenza di Miano, esce per l'etichetta fondata da quest'ultimo, ...

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Benny Bailey / Nashville Big Band: A Bird in the Hand

Read "A Bird in the Hand" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 23, 2014

To accentuate the positive: A Bird in the Hand is Georgia-based drummer Ben Bailey's debut album as a big-band leader, and a splendid one it is, thanks to Bailey's ample talents and those of the Nashville Big Band. The recording arose from a chance meeting in 2011 when another well-known timekeeper, Duffy Jackson, traveled to from ...