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Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans: Live in Lisbon
by Alberto Bazzurro
Live performance allo stato brado, quella raccolta in questo LP (un ampio brano per facciata, come da più consolidate tradizioni viniliche"), che vede il trio del sassofonista portoghese e l'illustre ospite americano disimpegnarsi al meglio all'interno dello spazio offerto (in senso lato) dal Teatro Maria Matos di Lisbona il 16 marzo 2013. Il ...
Jazzator: Nonagon
by Vincenzo Roggero
Nato in Russia come trio, successivamente trasformatosi in quartetto grazie all'innesto del contrabbassista svizzero Maximilian Grossenbacher, il gruppo Jazzator nasce da un'idea della pianista, vocalist e compositrice Marina Sobyanina. L'apprezzata attività della leader come compositrice per opere teatrali, balletti e sonorizzazione di film muti trasuda palpabilmente nella musica presente in Nonagon, terzo lavoro licenziato dall'ensemble. Perché ...
Louis Sclavis Quartet: Silk and Salt Melodies
by John Kelman
After reinventing himself with a completely revamped ensemble on Sources (ECM, 2012), reed multi-instrumentalist Louis Sclavis expands the purviews and possibilities of his Atlas Trio by adding percussionist Keyvan Chemirani to the mix for Silk and Salt Melodies. Sclavis has, in his 33-year career as a leader--and since coming to ECM Records in 1991 with the ...
Adam Meckler Orchestra: When The Clouds Look Like This
by Dan Bilawsky
The image that adorns the cover of When The Clouds Look Like This--three weathered valves rising from the mist, a finger button inexplicably missing from the middle valve--is something of a mystery. Is it a riddle? A metaphor of some sort? Or is it simply an image that appealed to these musicians? Only those involved with ...
Philip Corner: Satie Slowly
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Philip Corner slows down Erik Satie and shows where Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Steve Reich came from. Satie Slowly is exactly that: the piano music of Satie vastly slowed down compared to most contemporary performances and recordings. The lengthy subtitle to the release says it all: Avoid All Sacrilegious Exaltation." The large insert, assembled ...
Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy
by Karl Ackermann
From an early age composer/drummer/educator Tyshawn Sorey has found creative outlets in not just music but in painting and literature as well. Never one to compartmentalize his own imagination, he has enthusiastically explored blues, gospel, classical and music for dance so it seems quite natural that his current music defies categories. Whether listening or writing, he ...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Brooklyn Babylon
by Luca Canini
Che Brooklyn sia il cuore musicale della New York del terzo millennio è ormai un dato di fatto. Le spietate leggi del mercato immobiliare, da una decina d'anni o giù di lì, hanno costretto improvvisatori e jazzisti ad attraversare l'East River, in fuga da una Manhattan sempre più cara. Brooklyn nuovo rifugio e nuova frontiera, dunque, ...
Metropole Orkest: Perfect Vision - The Esquivel Sound
by Angelo Leonardi
Gli universi paralleli esistono, perlomeno in musica. Negli anni dal 1958 al 1962 il jazz statunitense ha vissuto una fase innovativa così ricca e variegata da assorbire totalmente gli appassionati (fino a oggi), portandoli a tralasciare quanto coesisteva nel vicino universo della pop music. In quegli anni l'industria discografica aveva scoperto il potenziale suggestivo ...
Tommy Igoe: The Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz audiences in the Bay Area are starting to realize what their New York counterparts have known for years--namely, that drummer Tommy Igoe puts together a hell of a band and puts on a hell of a show. Igoe, the man who gave rhythmic life to Broadway's The Lion King and changed the ...
Roseanna Vitro: Clarity: Music of Clare Fischer
by C. Michael Bailey
Roseanna Vitro is a singer's singer." What does that mean? It means she is so excellent and still warranting much more attention. Her deep and precise alto is perfectly tuned and balanced. Her phrasing is textbook. This is what a jazz singer sounds like. But Vitro's skill set does not stop at vocal ...

