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Jamie Alexander Smith: Kinesis

Read "Kinesis" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 10, 2014

Kinesis, from the young Edinburgh based pianist Jamie Alexander Smith, is sub-titled Four Improvisations On Piano. The sub-title pretty much explains things--on a basic level and except for the fact that a fifth track, “WKG," puts in an appearance. Of course, while the basic level of explanation hints at Smith's compositional approach and makes his instrument ...

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Farthest South: Neurim

Read "Neurim" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 10, 2014

The Israeli improvisational trio Farthest South explored distant musical universes in its previous albums--free jazz with local sax hero Albert Beger on Omens & Talismans (2013) and ambient-space rock on Spheres & Constellations (2013). Only on its third release, Neurim (youth in Hebrew} the trio dares to tackle one of the sore aspects of the Israeli ...

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Michael Fischer / Marcos Baggiani: bAgg*fisH

Read "bAgg*fisH" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 9, 2014

The duo bAgg*fisH--Austrian saxophonist and violinist Michael Fischer, and Amsterdam-based Argentinian drummer Marcos Baggiani began working together in 2003. The two were determined to redefine the sonic options of such a duo, blurring the conventional distinctions between muscular free jazz, post-rock, psychedelic dramas and noisy outbursts. The duo's music is wrapped in an experimental, risk-taking envelope, ...

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Luciano Biondini - Michel Godard - Lucas Niggli: Mavì

by Neri Pollastri
May 9, 2014

Giunto al secondo CD (il precedente What Is There What Is Not era del 2011, sempre per Intakt), l'atipico, europeo e originale trio di Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard e Lucas Niggli mostra di avere un'intesa invidiabile, messa alla prova su un repertorio decisamente variato e interessante. Mavì--titolo che rimanda al colore del mare--è ...

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Andrew Raffo Dewar: Interactions Quartet

Read "Interactions Quartet" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
May 9, 2014

Ecco un esempio di come i confini fra improvvisazione di matrice jazzistica e concezione compositiva contemporanea possano oggi essere sfumati, con travalicamenti continui da un'area all'altra, sia per quanto riguarda i meccanismi della produzione sonora da parte degli esecutori, sia per quanto attiene gli esiti del messaggio musicale percepito da chi ascolta. Dell'ambiziosa e impegnativa operazione, ...

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Peter Van Huffel/Michael Bates/Jeff Davis: Boom Crane

Read "Boom Crane" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 8, 2014

Pity the neighbors of the jazz trio Boom Crane. It's not that their garage band approach to music making is off-putting or offensive, it's that the ferocity of their approach is just so demanding. Saxophonist Peter Van Huffel's New York trio of Michael Bates (bass) and Jeff Davis (drums) release this, their inaugural recording, as a ...

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Sara Serpa & André Matos: Primavera

Read "Primavera" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 8, 2014

A little bit of magic is evident in the recording Primavera by the Portuguese-born-now-New Yorkers Sara Serpa and André Matos. Not magic as in sleight of hand or illusion, but magical as in enchanting and, indeed, spellbinding. The musical pair, also wife and husband, created this duo recording with the help of some of their own ...

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Rasmus Nyvall Kvintett: Bangård

Read "Bangård" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 8, 2014

Swedish, Malmö-based saxophonist Rasmus Nyvall plays in local young jazz bands Makross, {Det är inte så lätt, Havtorn, 2012), and SaliBambra. But on his solo debut, Bangård (Rail yard in Swedish}, he wanted to expose the artistic freedoms of jazz bands to a wider audience. Nyvall wrote lyrics in Swedish to eight songs for a quintet, ...

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Amato Jazz Trio: Gliss Man

Read "Gliss Man" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 8, 2014

Un trio di fratelli, che si considera un quartetto (la figura del batterista Sergio Amato tragicamente scomparso nel 2003 è presenza viva nello spirito della formazione) è cosa rara nelle vicende della musica jazz, non solo italiana. Provengono dalla provincia siracusana, sono attivi dal 1979 (sì, ben trentacinque anni!), hanno inciso più di una dozzina di ...

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Kevin Coelho: Turn It Up

Read "Turn It Up" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 8, 2014

Dopo l'esordio discografico ad appena 16 anni (Funkengruven--the Joy of Driving a B3, Chicken Coup Records 2012) Kevin Coelho ripropone il trio con gli stessi partner per una nuova carrellata di brani eseguiti sotto il segno del funk e del groove. Se quanto espresso allora in termini di padronanza musicale e feeling poteva bastare per ...