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Ton Trio II: On And On

Read "On And On" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Oakland, CA, based jazz and improvisation protagonist, alto saxophonist Aram Shelton could hold his own with most anyone in a cutting-contest. But there's more than a whole lot of technical acumen taking place with Ton Trio II. One of the principle selling points so to speak, is how the musicians impeccably integrate the modern jazz vernacular ...

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François Houle, Håvard Wiik: Aves

Read "Aves" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Il clarinettista del Québec François Houle e il pianista norvegese Håvard Wiik sono i protagonisti di questo notevole album che, non solo per l'abbinamento strumentale, evoca temperature cameristico-contemporanee più che strettamente jazzistiche. I sentieri battuti dai due performer variano da brano a brano, pur nel segno--costante--di una preziosità, un'eleganza, una cerebralità che non ...

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Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio: Thwirl

Read "Thwirl" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Formazione per certi versi anomala--contrabbasso, chitarra acustica, chitarra elettrica--il Rosetta Trio del contrabbassista Stephan Crump giunge alla terza pubblicazione in otto anni. Debutto folgorante con Rosetta nel 2006, nel 2010 Reclamation album che potremmo definire di assestamento, e ora Twirl, la nuova avventura del trio tutto cordofono. Siamo di fronte alla prova della ...

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Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Wild Beauty

Read "Wild Beauty" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo

Benchè candidato alla vincita di un Grammy Award, Wild Beauty, non è certo uno dei migliori CD della Brussels Jazz Orchestra. A conti fatti, i due prestigiosi ospiti non costituiscono il valore aggiunto di un progetto che naviga senza grandi colpi d'ala in un quieto mainstream. Joe Lovano è un magnifico solista, ma le sue composizioni ...

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Jason Kao Hwang / Ayman Fanous: Zilzal

Read "Zilzal" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The music forged by Egyptian guitarist/bouzouki player Ayman Fanous and violinist/violist Jason Kao Hwang is alternately thoughtful, prickly, exasperating, mournful, and enchanting. It speaks to mysteries and histories, capturing and refracting the shared language, cross-cultural references, and mystic vibes that these two men have been cultivating and exploring together for fifteen years. “Zilzal" ...

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Janice Borla Group: Promises to Burn

Read "Promises to Burn" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

The artist title is a hint: “The Janice Borla Group." Borla is a vocalist with a reputation for taking chances as evidenced on her three previous recordings, all released on Tall Grass records, From Every Angle (2006), Agents of Change (2003) and Lunar Octave (1996). What she effectively does on the current Promises to Burn is ...

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Orbit Stern: Ude i Skoven, Inde i Byen

Read "Ude i Skoven, Inde i Byen" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Orbit Stern is the duo of Swedish, Copenhagen-based guitarist Samuel Hällkvist (known from his association with King Crimson members in his band Variety of Loud), and Danish drummer Frederik Hauch (who played in many local alternative rock bands). Both nursed a longtime affinity for an Appalachian twang but decided to take this mythic, relatively strictly defined ...

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Fernando Ulibarri: Transform

Read "Transform" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Fernando Ulibarri is a guitarist, composer and prominent educator at various institutions in the Miami area. His debut album with his working quartet is framed on aspirations that aim to establish compositional unity but also produce comps that stand on their own. He launches the production with spacey inferences to Miles Davis' early jazz-fusion aura, yet ...

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Claudio Cojaniz - Franco Feruglio: Blue Africa

Read "Blue Africa" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Il pianista Claudio Cojaniz rinnova la sua pratica del duo con il contrabbasso--frequentata con successo oltre vent'anni orsono assieme a Giovanni Maier nel mitico album Due--e lo fa con un suo antico compagno di strada, Franco Feruglio, che nel frattempo ha accumulato esperienze nei più diversi territori della musica--dalla classica contemporanea a Ludovico Einaudi, dalla musica ...

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Spinifex: Hipsters Gone Ballistic

Read "Hipsters Gone Ballistic" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Basso elettrico e chitarra elettrica acchiappano da subito con spietata inesorabilità, con la violenza del rock più aggressivo e la capacità di infiltrarsi e stravolgere le trame musicali attraverso la sensibilità e la prontezza del jazz. Poi i fiati, magmatici e cristallini, imprevedibili e sarcastici, laceranti come un urlo nella notte, inquietanti come una ninna nanna ...


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