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Melodic Art-Tet: Melodic Art-Tet

Read "Melodic Art-Tet" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Su doppio LP (tirato in 400 esemplari) o singolo CD (di quasi ottanta minuti), la benemerita etichetta lituana NoBusiness Records porta alla luce un altro reperto d'epoca, in questo caso, oltre tutto, riguardante una formazione altrimenti inedita su disco. Si tratta del Melodic Art-Tet, prodotto abbastanza tipico del cosiddetto loft jazz, colto in una registrazione radiofonica ...

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Alexander Hawkins: Song Singular

Read "Song Singular" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The concurrent releases of pianist/composer Alexander Hawkins solo and ensemble recordings demonstrate the up-and-coming artist's exceptional range of compositional skills across dissimilar formats. The young Oxford, UK native has been a much sought after sideman, working with free jazz sax legend Evan Parker, saxophonist Joe McPhee and renowned South African drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo. Hawkins is also ...

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Dojo: Road Trip

Read "Road Trip" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Fusion--long a dirty word in jazz circles--has enjoyed a renaissance in the last decade. In part it's due to the advocacy of lables such as Abstract Logix but the root cause is surely the fact that cross-pollination is increasingly the norm. And whilst fusion mightn't mean quite the same thing it did in the 1970s, these ...

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Rebecca DuMaine & The Dave Miller Trio: Better Than Anything

Read "Better Than Anything" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Better Than Anything is about past and present, songs and singers, influences and memories, and father-and-daughter chemistry. It's the second album, following Deed I Do (Summit Records, 2012), that finds vocalist Rebecca DuMaine joining forces with her father, pianist Dave Miller. DuMaine and Miller share more than genetic code, as they both seem ...

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Vince Lewis & Barbara Martin: Fresh Air

Read "Fresh Air" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Guitarist Vince Lewis and vocalist Barbara Martin, longtime friends and musicians, join forces for an intimate trio recording of staid standards and compelling originals on Fresh Air. Joined by bassist Paul Langosch, who lends a solid and unobtrusive foundation, Lewis and Martin deliver a program this is as well crafted as it is spontaneous and crisply ...

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Spinifex: Hipsters Gone Ballistic

Read "Hipsters Gone Ballistic" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The Amsterdam-based group Spinifex--named after a tough Australian species of grass--is a modular collective of Dutch musicians. The Spinifex quintet that released its debut, the aptly titled Hipsters Gone Ballistic, is a part of a collective that includes the Spinifex Orchestra (that released its debut Triodia back in 2008 on Karnatic Lab Records), Spinifex Tuba Band ...

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M13: 1 Human, Too Human

Read "1 Human, Too Human" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Chicago-based M13 is a thirteen-piece ensemble that projects a hip, little big band attack featuring many of the region's finest musicians. Led by saxophonist Aaron McEvers whose sprightly horns arrangements are often given a jazz-rock uplift by guitarist Chris Siebold, as the band invokes numerous shades of the jazz vernacular. They lash out into bracing swing ...

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Ted Nash Big Band: Chakra

Read "Chakra" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo

In Chakra, oltre alle già note doti strumentali, Ted Nash mette in risalto la sua originalità di compositore ed orchestratore. Le sette composizioni riunite in forma di suite regalano all'ascoltatore una grande cornucopia di suggestioni. Esse costituiscono l'ammaliante traduzione musicale dei sette centri energetici che, secondo le tradizioni indiane inerenti lo yoga e la medicina ayurvedica, ...

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Brainkiller: Colourless Green Superheroes

Read "Colourless Green Superheroes" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Al secondo album dopo il pirotecnico debutto di The Infiltration, il trio denominato Brainkiller colpisce ancora (in senso figurato, s'intende...) licenziando un album che definisce ulteriormente la loro schizofrenica e multicolore visione musicale. Colourless Green Superheroes, è un frullatore dove tutto è concesso, dove gli ingredienti base--il gusto per l'improvvisazione del jazz, l'energia epidermica e immediata ...

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Bererberg Trio: Josh Berman - Christoph Erb - Fred Lonberg-Holm: Feel Beetrr

Read "Feel Beetrr" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

L'improvvisazione radicale è come il blues! Vale a dire sempre uguale a se stessa e sempre diversa: uguale e pervicacemente ripetitiva nel metodo, nella prassi e negli obiettivi perseguiti nei decenni, sempre minutamente diversa nei risultati, variando di volta in volta gli umori, i retroterra culturali, le capacità espressive, le personalità dei singoli creatori. Ovviamente variano ...


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