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The Ocular Concern: Sister Cities

Read "Sister Cities" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi

by Claudio Bonomi
March 25, 2014

Gli Ocular Concern, band di Portland (Oregon), hanno iniziato a farsi ascoltare come trio dedicandosi a cover di brani di musica folk dell'Europa Orientale, di jazz contemporaneo e dei Kinks. Davvero, non male come repertorio e per chi volesse c'è ancora in circolazione il loro primo extended play, uscito nel 2011, che testimonia questa fase.

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Antonio Zambrini, Rita Marcotulli: La conversazione

Read "La conversazione" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 25, 2014

Intitolato come un celebre film del 1974 di Francis Ford Coppola con un indimenticabile Gene Hackman (fra l'altro sassofonista amateur), questo album affianca due pianisti fino a ieri apparsi onestamente piuttosto distanti, per cifra stilistica e frequentazioni. Diciamo subito che il disco sembra riconducibile più ad Antonio Zambrini che alla collega romana: ce ...

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Dan Weiss: Fourteen

Read "Fourteen" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 24, 2014

While the ear essentially functions the same way for everybody, all people don't process sound in the same fashion. Experiences shape the way each and every person takes in what they hear. Some tend to focus in on a single sound, others key in on conversational concepts, and then there are those who are big picture ...

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Nicky Schrire: To The Spring

Read "To The Spring" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 24, 2014

It's brief--barely 30 minutes long--and released only in digital form, but To The Spring packs plenty into its allotted time span. This is the third release from singer and songwriter Nicky Schrire. It's another excellent release, her voice framed by the sparse but sympathetic piano and bass of Fabian Almazan and Desmond White. Schrire's ...

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Tim Hegarty: Tribute

by Dan Bilawsky
March 24, 2014

Tim Hegarty's Tribute is an audible panegyric on the great saxophonist-composers. It's a well-crafted, straightforward date that highlights Hegarty's love for those who've come before and the work that they've done on paper and on record. The list of saxophonists that Hegarty has studied includes George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Joe Henderson, ...

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Greg Nathan: I'll Think Of Something

Read "I'll Think Of Something" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2014

Bassist/vocalist Greg Nathan makes it perfectly clear that he would like the liner notes of I'll Think of Something to be read before listening to the disc. He wants to lay the groundwork for an intimate and proper homage to his late father, composer Charles Nathan. Joining Nathan is guitarist Mike Denny for a recital of ...

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Hanuman: Soundhousing

Read "Soundhousing" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 24, 2014

Hailing from Italy, The Hanuman Quartet's gospel professes a far- reaching and multicolored plane of concepts, including hummable themes, investigative dialogues and asymmetrical pulses that pose a slight realm of suspense on a per-track basis. Many of the semi-structured compositional attributes contain an open forum for improvisation amid nimble atmospherics, simmering free-jazz opuses and a little ...

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Roberto Bonati Trio: Bianco il vestito nel buio

Read "Bianco il vestito nel buio" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
March 24, 2014

Nato nel 2011 in occasione del Festival Verdi di Parma, questo trio paritetico, ancorché diretto da Roberto Bonati, vive di (e dà vita a) una straordinaria libertà. I tre protagonisti--accanto al contrabbasso del leader ci sono il piano di Alberto Tacchini e la batteria eccezionalmente creativa di Roberto Dani--si muovono in perfetta interazione, su strutture messe ...

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Paolo Fresu Quintet: ¡30!

by Giuseppe Segala
March 24, 2014

Trent'anni di attività sono davvero un bel traguardo e il quintetto di Paolo Fresu condivide questa longevità in Europa forse solo con il trio dell'illustre pianista Alexander von Schlippenbach, che ha doppiato ormai abbondantemente la tappa dei quarant'anni. Il motore del quintetto di Fresu è perfettamente lubrificato, come è apparso anche dal vivo nelle date che ...

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Donald Edwards: Evolution Of An Influenced Mind

Read "Evolution Of An Influenced Mind" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 23, 2014

Donald Edwards is one of those drummers that seem to be taken for granted. He's constantly being called upon to support others, shaping moods and grooves on record for everybody from saxophonist Dayna Stephens to trombonist Conrad Herwig to vocalist Carolyn Leonhart, but he's largely avoided being in the spotlight. He's only released two other leader ...