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Tamara Obrovac: Ulika Revival
by Bruce Lindsay
In 1998 singer and songwriter Tamara Obrovac, from Istria in Croatia, released Ulika (CBS), an album dedicated to her grandmother. Ulika Revival revisits a dozen songs from that album, presenting new renditions informed by the 15 or 16 years that lie between the two releases. The revival is a great success, a masterly collection of strikingly ...
Hush Point: Hush Point
by Vincenzo Roggero
Se tra i dieci brani contenuti in Hush Point due portano la firma di Jimmy Giuffre, se la front-line del quartetto pianoless è formato da tromba e sax, e se il trombettista del gruppo ha mosso i primi passi nella California degli anni sessanta, qualche indizio su quello che si andrà ad ascoltare ci viene pur ...
The Hot 8 Brass Band: Tombstone
by Angelo Leonardi
Parte integrante dell'afro-american community di New Orleans, l'Hot 8 Brass Band torna con un nuovo album, riproponendo l'incendiaria miscela di soul, rap, funk, hip hop e jazz in chiave di marchin' band.Fondata nel 1995 dal tubista Bennie Big Peter" Pete e dal trombonista Jerome Baybay" Jones, la formazione è sopravvissuta alla tragedia dell'uragano Katrina ...
Roberto Magris Septet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 2
by Jack Bowers
Not only is Italian pianist / composer Roberto Magris conversant with jazz history and tradition, he honors it, as he has done in a series of albums devoted to the music of pianist Elmo Hope, alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and trumpeter Lee Morgan who is saluted here in a second two-disc volume. Whereas young lion ...
Tom Chang: Tongue and Groove
by Mark Corroto
When did the ultimate compliment for a jazz performance switch from you swing, cat" to you rock, dude"? Perhaps it happened after a generation of jazz artists raised on rock-n-roll found their way into improvisation and the latitudes of expression that jazz enable. Case in point is Tongue And Groove by guitarist Tom Chang.
Karen Mantler: Business is Bad
by John Kelman
It's been nearly two decades since Karen Mantler last released an album under her own name on the XtraWATT label belonging to her similarly coifed mother, pianist/composer Carla Bley, but she's been anything but idle. Work on Bley albums like Appearing Nightly (Watt, 2008), recordings by father Michael Mantler like Folly Seeing All This (ECM, 1993), ...
Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love: Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love
by Eyal Hareuveni
The musical bond between Japanese guitarist and sound sculptor Otomo Yoshihide and Norwegian powerhouse drummer Paal Nilssen-Love was solidified through previous successful collaborations. First with Nilssen-Love Scandinavian power trio The Thing's Shinjuku Crawl, (Smalltown Superjazz, 2009), then with Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet Concert for Fukushima Wels 2011 DVD, (PanRec, 2013) and finally with an ad-hoc trio ...
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism: Spinning Jenny
by Vincenzo Roggero
Spinning Jenny contiene registrazioni live del tour effettuato nell'aprile 2013 da The Bureau of Atomic Tourism, ufficio turistico" che riunisce alcuni esponenti della musica improvvisata più effervescente della scena europea e d'oltreoceano. Formalmente guidata dal batterista Teun Verbruggen The BOAT è in effetti un gruppo paritario nel quale ogni membro contribuisce dal punto di vista compositivo ...
Anna Kaluza – Artur Majewski – Rafal Mazur – Kuba Suchar: Tone Hunting
by Stefano Merighi
La prassi della free-music conduce spesso l'opera musicale verso una lingua franca di cui è difficile delineare i contorni, l'identità. Se l'astrazione prevale sull'ispirazione melodica e il piano generale si riduce ad una sommaria aleatorietà, evaporano facilmente i tratti riconoscibili dei diversi esecutori (a meno di evidenti linguaggi individuali storicizzati), così come quelli geografici.
The Core Trio with Matthew Shipp: The Core Trio With Matthew Shipp
by Dan Bilawsky
One trio. One guest. A single, forty-two minute, freely improvised piece. That's what you basically have here, but such a bare description doesn't do it justice. The Core Trio--a group that has yet to actually record as a stand-alone trio--has an interesting history that seems to always revolve around personnel twists. The group ...

