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Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington In Grona Lund

Read "Duke Ellington In Grona Lund" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
June 9, 2014

Midsummer is a quite magical time to be in Sweden. The long, dark winter is over and now, as the sun stays resolutely above the horizon, the Lutheran natives shed their somber demeanor, dress in traditional costumes, dance around maypoles decorated with garlands of flowers, drink far too much aquavit and have such a good time ...

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Roberto Magris Trio: One Night In With Hope And More… Vol. 2

Read "One Night In With Hope And More… Vol. 2" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 9, 2014

Italian pianist Roberto Magris has always had an affinity for the classic jazz trio format and the bebop sound which, he documents so well on the previous One Night In With Hope and More...Vol. 1 (J-Mood Records, 2012), the first session of an originally planned two-set project. The eagerly anticipated follow up part-two, comes to light ...

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Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed

Read "Ready for Reed" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 9, 2014

Alto saxophonist Sam Reed is legend in the Philadelphia jazz scene who was leader of the 1950s band, Sam Reed and the All-Stars, worked uptown theatre for a while, performed with pop and R&B stars and served as the musical director for Teddy Pendergrass just to mention a few highlights from his long musical resume . ...

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Rodrigo Amado: Wire Quartet

Read "Wire Quartet" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 9, 2014

Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado is an aggressive, improvisational dynamo who has amassed a hearty discography for Clean Feed Records and several other European record labels. His mode of delivery parallels a heavyweight boxer who jabs, dances, and executes vicious left hooks and uppercuts. Recorded in a Lisbon studio, his quartet opens the floodgates with blossoming theme ...

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Jason Roebke Octet: High/Red/Center

Read "High/Red/Center" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
June 9, 2014

È un momento di fervida creazione per il contrabbassista Jason Roebke, quarantenne stabilito a Chicago da ormai una quindicina di anni, che in quella città condivide il proprio operato con un ventaglio di musicisti molto interessanti, tra cui elenchiamo gli stessi che prendono parte a questo splendido ottetto: il sassofonista alto Greg Ward, il tenorista Keefe ...

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Blastula: Lingue di fuoco

Read "Lingue di fuoco" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 9, 2014

Mettete Joni Mitchell e Nina Simone, Cathy Berberian e Bjork, Patti Smith e Ida Cox--ossia voci straordinarie e icone femminili altrettanto straordinarie-- nelle mani di Cristiano Calcagnile e nella voce di Monica Demuru, otterrete Lingue di fuoco, opera seconda del duo denominato Blastula. Il disco è affascinante, mutevole, sorprendente, insolito, coraggioso, profondo e ...

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Walt Weiskopf: Overdrive

Read "Overdrive" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 8, 2014

After a string of well-received dates on the Criss Cross imprint, and a one-off for the Capri label, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf arrives at Posi-Tone with this pleasing sextet date. The music on Overdrive is all original, save for the penultimately-placed cover of Michel Legrand's “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?," and it ...

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Gato Libre: DuDu

by Dan McClenaghan
June 8, 2014

There are a lot of high energy, wild and out there sounds screaming around in Natsuki Tamura's discography--the explosively electric Hada Hada (Libra Records, 2002), the sizzling Exit (Libra Records, 2004), and any number of unfettered collaborations with his wife, pianist Satoko Fujii. But his Gato Libre discs are one of the Japanese trumpeter's more laid-back ...

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Nick Grinder: Ten Minutes

Read "Ten Minutes" reviewed by Daniel Lehner

by Daniel Lehner
June 8, 2014

It's a shame that more trombonists don't make records like the one 25-year-old Nick Grinder has. The instrument has long since proven its worth in bebop, post-bop and neo- bop, but few bone players have elected to exploit the instrument's unique timbre and music- making structure, not to mention writing music most conducive for it, in ...

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Thom Douvan: Brother Brother

Read "Brother Brother" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
June 8, 2014

If it was going on sincerity alone it would be hard to knock Brother, Brother. Taken as a labor of love from guitarist Thom Douvan to the classic soul musicians collectively known as The Funk Brothers it sincerely tries hard, but unfortunately comes up short. The immediate problem with any an album of cover ...