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Miguel Angelo: Branco

by Ian Patterson
September 26, 2014

Portuguese bassist/composer Miguel Ângelo has been much in demand on the Porto jazz scene since graduating in Double Bass and Jazz from the School of Music and Performing Arts in 2008. His collaborations have been numerous and he has guested on five recordings since 2012. Branco, his debut as leader, showcases Ângelo's writing skills as much ...

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Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace

Read "Search for Peace" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 26, 2014

Saxophonist Steve Heckman has been dishing up rock solid mainstream jazz in the quartet and quintet settings since 2003's For John (World City Music), a tribute disc to the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane. That debut and his two subsequent offerings, Live at Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005) and Born to Be Blue (Jazzed Media, 2013), held ...

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Red Hill: Red Hill

Read "Red Hill" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
September 26, 2014

Red Hill is the collection of six group-composed pieces, led by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, this very fine aggregate also including keyboardist Jamie Saft, Joe Morris playing acoustic bass and drummer Balazs Pandi. Indeed, Red Hill can't be heard except as a portrait of four vivid musical personalities interacting across musical terrain loaded with many unexpected ...

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Oran Etkin: Gathering Light

Read "Gathering Light" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 26, 2014

Due compagni di viaggio d'eccezione come Nasheet Waits e Ben Allison, due ospiti (in realtà membri più che attivi del quintetto) altrettanto prestigiosi come il “Jazz Passanger" Curtis Fowlkes e il chitarrista Lionel Loueke, ed ecco che il clarinettista, sassofonista, compositore, didatta di origine israeliana Oran Etkin scodella un secondo lavoro da leader di tutto rispetto. ...

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Sebastien Boisseau - Matthieu Donarier: Wood

by Neri Pollastri
September 26, 2014

Incluso in un package a dir poco originale (un cofanetto che include, assieme al disco, la sezione di un ramo, quasi un CD in legno), questo lavoro dei due affiatatissimi musicisti francesi punta anche nei suoni sul legno, quello del contrabbasso di Sebastien Boisseau e quello delle ance di Matthieu Donarier. Per valorizzare ...

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Anna Webber: Simple

by Paul Naser
September 25, 2014

Simple (Skirl 2014) , New York based composer/saxophonist Anna Webber's follow up to her 2013 release “Percussive Mechanics (Pirouet 2013) finds her exploring the expressive capabilities of a trio setting. While the compositional sensibilities introduced in her first album remain, her affinity for polyrhythms being a good example, the new texture provides her the ability to ...

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Alice Babs: Vi minns Alice Babs

Read "Vi minns Alice Babs" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
September 25, 2014

This six-CD box set pays homage to Alice Babs, the Swedish jazz singer who died at the age of 90 in February, 2014. A soprano with a three octave range, she sang with Duke Ellington, most notably in his so-called sacred concerts. At the start of her career, in 1940, at the tender ...

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Fo' Reel: Heavy Water

Read "Heavy Water" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 25, 2014

Journeyman musicians have an ease about them that enables them to readily collaborate, making exceptional music in the bargain. New Orleans's Fo' Reel is such a band. The core of Fo' Reel is made up of New Orleans soul singer C.P. Love, guitarist and producer Mark Domizio, keys player Johnny Neel and bassist David Barard. The ...

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Nils Davidsen: Noget at glæde sig til

Read "Noget at glæde sig til" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 25, 2014

Quarantotto anni, danese, il contrabbassista Nils Bosse Davidsen ha deciso nel corso del 2013 di raccogliersi fra sé e sé e dare alla luce una serie di solo performances che lo vedono misurarsi sia con lo strumento puro e semplice (sette brani) sia con sovraincisioni varie (i restanti quattro). Maestro in particolare dell'archetto, ...

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Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zurich Concert

Read "Zurich Concert" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
September 25, 2014

Di fronte a dischi problematici come questo non si può fare a meno di porsi delle domande. Quali sono il ruolo della composizione e la sua relazione con l'improvvisazione? Esistono analogie reali o presunte con la musica contemporanea “colta"? Quali sono la consapevolezza e le intenzioni degli autori nel concepire una musica di confine? Soltanto un ...