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Sonny Rollins: Road Shows, Vol. 3

Read "Road Shows, Vol. 3" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 16, 2014

The third installment of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' live performances, Road Shows, Volume 3 is the most uniformly outstanding of the series. A task that is hard to achieve since the first two albums were superb musical gems in their own right. Despite covering a span of 11 years the current disc demonstrates extreme thematic cohesiveness, ...

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Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, Tommy Smith: Mira

Read "Mira" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 16, 2014

Registrato al leggendario Rainbow Studio di Oslo nel dicembre 2012 e uscito poco più di un anno dopo (gennaio 2014), questo album ci ripropone una delle formazioni più tipiche, esplicative, paradigmatiche, di un dato suono nordico in jazz, nello specifico veicolato attraverso un organico che nella musica afroamericana, pur con tutte le di lei progressive appendici, ...

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Drew Gress: The Sky Inside

Read "The Sky Inside" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 16, 2014

Formazione stellare quella che Drew Gress presenta per il suo debutto sull'etichetta tedesca Pirouet, e quintetto consolidato fin dal lontano 2005 quando impressionò con l'ottimo 7 Black Butterflies . Formazione di musicisti avventurosi, spinti da un insaziabile spirito di ricerca, seppur con prospettive e gradi differenti di intensità, che... sembra incappare, se non in un esercizio ...

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Agustí Fernández/Barry Guy/Ramón López: A Moment's Liberty

Read "A Moment's Liberty" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 15, 2014

The term “elegance," is rarely utilized when referring to a jazz recording. In fact, “elegant jass"might be an oxymoronic term. Sure, The Modern Jazz Quartet always performed in formal wear, and Duke Ellington evoked gracefulness in response to his advertised “jungle music," but jazz has always bumped up against the high brow ceiling of more orthodox ...

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East West Collective: Humeurs

by John Sharpe
May 15, 2014

The East West Collective constituted one of the surprise hits of the 2013 Vision Festival in New York City. As their name implies the five strong outfit comprises improvisers from both the Occident and Orient. Their origin lies in French cellist Didier Petit's regular visits to the Far East, often with clarinetist Sylvain Kassap in tow, ...

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Alan Wilkinson/Steve Noble/John Coxon/Pat Thomas: The Founder Effect I

Read "The Founder Effect I" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 15, 2014

You cannot judge a book by its cover. Maybe, but music fans somehow know that expression doesn't lend itself to album covers (in this case, CD covers). Look at the Blue Note Records covers from the 1960 sixties, Miles Davis' On The Corner (Columbia, 1972), or The Clash's London Calling (Columbia, 1979), and tell me you ...

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Thomas Gunillasson: Glashus

Read "Glashus" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 15, 2014

The musical career of Swedish, Västerås-based guitarist Thomas Gunillasson flirts with early influences of Nordic metal bands and later sophistication of improvising jazz outfits and left-of-center rock outfits. Gunillasson plays in fellow Swede, and avant-garde vocalist Lindha Kallerdahl's GOLD band, co-leads the quartet Thymeshift with drummer Johan Björklund and leads the trio Les Pickadoles with ex- ...

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Erb/Lonberg-Holm/Jackson/Reid: Duope

Read "Duope" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
May 15, 2014

Fred Lonberg-Holm e Christoph Erb avevano già registrato in duo nel 2011 per l'interessante etichetta svizzera Veto Records/Exchange, gestita dallo stesso Erb, il CD Screw and Straw: ora la formula che abbinava violoncello e clarinetto basso (in quel caso anche sax tenore) viene semplicemente raddoppiata, con l'inserimento di Keefe Jackson ai clarinetti basso e contrabbasso, e ...

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Keefe Jackson’s Likely So: A Round Goal

Read "A Round Goal" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
May 15, 2014

Anomalo, importante, problematico questo CD che testimonia una tappa ambiziosa nella ricerca dell'emergente Keefe Jackson. Registrato nel febbraio 2013 al Jazzwerkstatt Festival di Berna, vede la collaborazione fra tre improvvisatori chicagoani (Dave Rempis e Mars Williams oltre allo stesso Jackson), tre svizzeri (Thomas K. J. Mejer, Peter A. Schmid e Marc Stucki) e il polacco Waclaw ...

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Roy Assaf Trio: Second Row Behind The Painter

Read "Second Row Behind The Painter" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 14, 2014

Pianist Roy Assaf decided to try a different studio tactic when he set out to make this record. Instead of simply having his trio take multiple passes at tracks on a single predetermined playlist, he decided to have the group simulate a stay at a club. They recorded multiple sets, accumulating almost five hours worth of ...