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Theo Croker: Afro Physicist

Read "Afro Physicist" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
September 18, 2014

Nel terreno d'incontro tra neo-bop, soul e fusion, il giovane trombettista e compositore Theo Croker mostra vivo talento e freschezza d'idee. Non è azzardato prevedergli un'imminente luminosa carriera e questo “Afro Physicist"--prodotto da Dee Dee Bridgewater e pubblicato dalla Okeh--si caratterizza come un lavoro fantasioso e maturo. Nipote di Doc Cheatham, Theo ha ...

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Henrik Otto Donner & Tumo: And It Happened…

Read "And It Happened…" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 18, 2014

Registrato a fine ottobre 2012, ad appena otto mesi dalla scomparsa del musicista finlandese Henrik Otto Donner (16.11.39 / 26.06.13), il presente CD contiene otto pagine del succitato compositore (già allievo di Ligeti, nonché attivo anche nel campo della canzone engagée, della musica contemporanea ed elettronica), pagine variamente riuscite in base alla presenza o meno della ...

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Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under The Moon

Read "Under The Moon" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
September 17, 2014

London-based quartet Blue-Eyed Hawk's debut recording has benefited from three years of gigging and the slow stewing of ideas. Collectively, singer Lauren Kinsella, trumpeter Laura Jurd, guitarist Alex Roth and drummer Corrie Dick sounds like the finished article, which whets the appetite for future chapters. With writing duties spread evenly, the quartet soars over wide stylistic ...

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Joan Chamorro and Andrea Motis: Feeling Good

Read "Feeling Good" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 17, 2014

Feeling Good is well named: the feelgood vibe is strong and the love of music that reaches out from this album is pretty much guaranteed to leave listeners with a similarly good feeling. It's the second album from Joan Chamorro--bassist, saxophonist and director of Barcelona's Sant Andreu Jazz Band--and the band's star member, the teenage singer ...

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Steve Olson: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
September 17, 2014

For his first recording as a leader, drummer/percussionist Steve Olson asked six of his friends to engage in completely unrehearsed and improvised duo “conversations." Olson states in the notes that in his opinion, “the best music has an element of dialogue in it, both between the musicians, and between the players and the listener ...

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Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature

Read "Harmonious Creature" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 17, 2014

La giovane sassofonista del New Hampshire, estremo nord-est statunitense, ha certo più di una freccia al suo arco. Ce lo dice con chiarezza questo suo ultimo lavoro, inciso all'inizio del 2013 alla testa del proprio quintetto, entro cui un ruolo quasi altrettanto rilevante della leader gioca il violista Etvind Kang, specificatamente per l'impasto (per certi versi ...

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Danny Fox Trio: Wide Eyed

Read "Wide Eyed" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
September 17, 2014

Figura emergente del piano jazz statunitense, Danny Fox si muove con convincente originalità all'interno di schemi ampiamente praticati nelle musiche improvvisate contemporanee. Il suo trio si destreggia con grande professionalità, evidenziando un interplay ricco di sottigliezze. Lo si evince sia negli spunti di particolare taglio ritmico che nelle raffinate modulazioni solistiche. La ...

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Elizabeth Shepherd: Signal

Read "Signal" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
September 16, 2014

Montreal-based singer Elizabeth Shepherd gently stirs jazz with an underground pop aesthetic in Signal. Similar to the fresh styles of contemporaries such as Esperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato, Shepherd's appeal is heard in her multifaceted gifts as a songwriter, musician, and composer; attributes which garnered her a Juno Award nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album for ...

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Emil Strandberg: More music for trumpet, guitar and bass

Read "More music for trumpet, guitar and bass" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 16, 2014

Swedish trumpeter Emil Strandberg continues to explore the format of an intimate, acoustic trio. He began in 2012 with a self-titled trio of double bassist Pär-Ola Landin and drummer Sebastian Voegler (Self Produced, 2012) that covered standards, continued in 2013 with pianist Sten Sandell and double bassist Patric Thorman in It Is Night and I am ...

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Nico Soffiato: OST Quartet

Read "OST Quartet" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 16, 2014

Tre brani di poco più di due minuti che esibiscono il solitario lirismo dei tre compagni di viaggio, un'altra manciata di esecuzioni di breve durata nelle quali il quartetto spazia tra droni ossessivi e riflessive meditazioni sul suono, e ancora tre brani di oltre i dieci minuti che costituiscono il nocciolo duro dell'incisione. Nico Soffiato, chitarrista ...