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Rodrigo Amado: Wire Quartet

Read "Wire Quartet" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

It is possible that Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's earlier releases caught your attention because of the names of his playing partners. Chicago trombonist Jeb Bishop recorded two discs with Amado's Motion Trio, The Flame Alphabet (Not Two, 2012) and Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro (JACC Records, 2012). There was also Searching For Adam (Not Two, ...

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Harvey Mason: Chameleon

Read "Chameleon" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush

When you've been making music as long as Harvey Mason has as a solo artist and manning the drum chair for Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Donald Byrd,and more artists than there is space here to list, you are not only pleasing longtime fans, you're making new converts as well. Some who might ask, “This guy's pretty ...

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Peter Hammill / Gary Lucas: Other World

Read "Other World" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

On paper, this alliance might seem like an improbable encounter. Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Peter Hammill is revered for his work with the legendary progressive rock unit, Van Der Graaf Generator. While guitarist Gary Lucas' resume contains a historic affiliation with avant, blues-rock wiz Captain Beefheart amid stints within New York City's downtown scene denizens, vocalist Joan ...

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Flex Bent Braam: Lucebert

Read "Lucebert" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Lucebert fu pittore e poeta olandese, particolarmente influenzato dal movimento d'avanguardia denominato Cobra, oltre che grande appassionato di jazz. Da un suo telegramma, il cui contenuto consisteva in una semplice lista di standard, prende spunto l'idea di questo album nel quale agli otto brani noti il leader Michiel Braam affianca altrettante composizioni originali. ...

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Howard Alden - Andy Brown: Heavy Artillery

Read "Heavy Artillery" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Chi cerca indicazioni sulle nuove tendenze della chitarra jazz può anche cambiare pagina ma se volete deliziarvi con dell'ottimo straight-ahead jazz questo è il disco che fa per voi. La musica sa infatti coniugare perizia tecnica, feeling, gusto melodico, intenso drive e fantasia interpretativa. Protagonista dell'opera è un quartetto guidato da due chitarristi ...

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Quentin Angus: Perception

Read "Perception" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Quentin Angus, a multi-award-winning Australian guitarist, follows up his 2011 debut recording, Retrieval Structure, with the ambitious Perception. Born in 1987, he still clocks in as a “young" artist, but his music is strikingly mature. An apt comparison is the monumentally talented guitarist Pat Metheny, with a broad vision and a penchant for grand statements and ...

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Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The recipe for this album could be detailed as such: start with one inventive drummer, add two interconnected masters of wholly improvised music, throw a composition from Paul Motian into the pot, and let it all stir itself. Drummer Jeff Cosgrove's fascination with the music of Motian isn't a secret. As the man ...

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Charlotte Glasson: Festivus

Read "Festivus" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

This exceptional album succeeds on several levels. First there's Glasson herself, an undeniably, prodigiously talented multi- instrumentalist whose diverse armamentarium would successfully rival that of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's, maybe substituting his stritch for her saw. The nine tracks here all benefit from Glasson's imaginative arrangements for which the word “quirky" would be hardly adequate. ...

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Sequoia: Rotations

Read "Rotations" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Sequoia is an international, Berlin-based double bass quartet comprised of German Meinard Kneer, active on both the Dutch and Berlin improvisation scenes and the founder of Evil Rabbit Records; Klaus Kürvers, who initiated this project, a former architect and cultural historian and another player of the Berlin improvised scene; Canadian Miles Perkin, a frequent collaborator of ...

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Pascal Niggenkemper Vision7: Lucky Prime

Read "Lucky Prime" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Lucky Prime è il debutto discografico per i Vision 7 di Pascal Niggenkemper ed è album trasversale come pochi. In Lucky Prime avanguardia, free, musica da camera, contemporanea e sperimentale, noise si ritrovano in una sorta di camera di combustione lenta e inesorabile che rischia di esplodere al minimo respiro. Ma a caratterizzare ...


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