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Nir Felder: Golden Age
by Vincenzo Roggero
Sarà anche l'album di debutto ma in Golden Age il chitarrista Nir Felder si dimostra solista maturo, compositore interessante e leader convincente. Durante le dieci tracce del disco Felder gestisce al meglio i talentuosi compagni di viaggio convogliando le loro peculiarità verso un disegno comune organizzato e coeso. Le composizioni si materializzano in un repertorio trasversale ...
Enrico Granafei: Alone (and) Together
by Angelo Leonardi
Enrico Granafei è un chitarrista e armonicista cosentino residente da anni negli Stati Uniti, precisamente a Montclair (New Jersey), dove possiede un ristorante e jazz club, Trumpets. La sua storia musicale inizia dopo un diploma di chitarra nel 1976 al conservatorio dell'Aquila e con l'attività di armonicista a Roma, iniziata alla fine di quel decennio dopo ...
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: The L.A. Treasures Project
by Edward Blanco
For nearly thirty-years now the Grammy-nominated Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (CHJO) has been easily recognizable as one of the best big bands in the business. Led by bassist John Clayton, saxophonist and brother Jeff Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton, the group embarked on a mission to document their various rehearsals with West Coast vocal legends Ernie Andrews ...
Mike Rud: Notes On Montreal
by Dan Bilawsky
Do you have to be intimately familiar with a specific locale and its literary representations and intimates in order to appreciate music that's inextricably linked to it? Guitarist Mike Rud's Notes On Montreal raises that question, but it's a question that can never truly be answered. For it's up to each individual artist to find a ...
Tchicai - Kohlhase - Fewell - McBee - Hart: Tribal Ghost
by John Sharpe
Of all the collaborations in the later years of legendary reedman John Tchicai, some of the most fertile were in the company of guitarist Garrison Fewell, whether under the Dane's leadership like One Long Minute (NuBop, 2012) and Big Chief Dreaming (Soul Note, 2005) or in undocumented appearances with the guitarist's Variable Density Sound Orchestra. Joining ...
Steve Cardenas: Melody in a Dream
by Gabriel Medina Arenas
Melody in a Dream is a humble tribute to Steve Cardenas' mentors and music heroes. The Kansas City guitarist who moved to New York City in 1995 pays his respects to figures like late piano genius Thelonius Monk, avant-garde drummer Joey Baron(who is his sideman in this album), the deceased drummer Paul Motian and pianist Horace ...
Nick Levinovsky: Special Opinion
by Edward Blanco
Legendary Russian pianist, composer/arranger Nick Levinovsky delivers a masterpiece of an album on Special Opinion superbly supported by friend, saxophonist Igor Butman and his Moscow Jazz Orchestra. The leader offers a non-traditional session of music presenting a taste of Funk, fusion, jazz-rock, a tinge of psychedelic and yes, even good old contemporary straight ahead stuff--all in ...
Mike Pinder: The Promise / Among The Stars
by Glenn Astarita
As a founding member of The Moody Blues, keyboardist, percussionist and vocalist, Mike Pinder put the electro-mechanical tape replay keyboard instrument, mellotron on the map. He also composed several classics for the band, including “Melancholy Man" and “How Is It (We Are Here)," as his musicality inspired other artists and ensembles during the advent and glory ...
Gábor Gadó Quartet with Dave Liebman: Ungrund
by Neri Pollastri
Il quartetto del chitarrista e compositore ungherese Gábor Gadó ha ormai lunga vita (è stato fondato nel 1995) cosicché, pur suonando musica originale e complessa, i suoi componenti hanno maturato una tale intesa che non è difficile per loro accogliere un ospite occasionale e farlo apparire come un membro stabile, a maggior ragione se quest'ospite ha ...
Fritz Hegi Trio: Flow Flow Impro-Visionen
by Alberto Bazzurro
Dinnanzi a un pubblico alquanto sparuto (ce lo dice il volume degli applausi), i tre musicisti svizzeri cuciono insieme il loro set, alimentato da un'improvvisazione inesausta quanto abilmente gestita. L'humus varia peraltro non poco da brano a brano, facendo leva ora su una struttura più sfrangiata, trovata all'impronta, ora compositivamente definita. Già paradigmatica ...
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