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Michel Edelin Quartet: Resurgence

Read "Resurgence" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 21, 2014

Pur facendo per ovvi motivi riferimento al veterano flautista Michel Edelin, che ne è il titolare nonché l'autore di tutto il materiale tematico, questo lavoro trae i motivi della propria riuscita più che mai dalla somma delle forze in campo, anche proprio nella loro diversità. Si segnalano specificatamente le presenze di un almeno ...

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MOF: Fried Generation

Read "Fried Generation" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 21, 2014

Da mercato ortofrutticolo --luogo pulsante umanità, incontro stanziale di colori, di odori e profumi-- a parcheggio per auto --altro luogo di incontri questa volta passeggeri, fugaci, magari sorprendenti comunque dettati dall'occasionalità e dai ritmi imposti dalla quotidianità. È questa la sorte toccata ad una vasta area situata nel centro di Ferrara e denominata MOF, sigla scelta ...

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Linda May Han Oh: Sun Pictures

Read "Sun Pictures" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
February 21, 2014

Mi era piaciuto molto il precedente lavoro della contrabbassista Linda Oh, Initial Here, pubblicato un paio di anni fa. Ora la musicista, vista anche in concerto con Dave Douglas nei mesi scorsi, torna alla guida di un quartetto con James Muller alla chitarra, Ben Wendel al sassofono [nonostante il disco indichi erroneamente tromba] e Ted Poor ...

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Matt Newton: Within Reach

Read "Within Reach" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 20, 2014

The piano only has 88 keys but an infinite number of possibilities are trapped within those black and white beauties. The instrument just sits and waits for the right people to come along and discover these yet-to-be-heard sounds. Judging from this album, Matt Newton is one of the right people. On Within Reach, ...

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Eugene Skeef & Rae Howell: Heavy Forest Air

Read "Heavy Forest Air" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
February 20, 2014

The key words of the sparse liner notes are “created live," as Heavy Forest Air documents improvisations between percussionist/multi-faceted artist Eugene Skeef and vibraphonist/multi-instrumentalist Rae Howell, in the Rolston Recital Hall of the famous Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. There were no charts and no overdubs--just two musicians responding to the evolving stimuli of the moment. The ...

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Bohren & der Club of Gore: Piano Nights

Read "Piano Nights" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 20, 2014

Of the many hard-to-define sub-genres of jazz, “dark jazz" may be the most challenging to classify. Exemplifying the category is Bohren & der Club of Gore's Piano Nights . The German quartet, whose members have a variety of doom metal origins, has morphed their earlier inclinations into a hybrid that has little to suggest the player's ...

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Lauren Kinhan: Circle In A Square

Read "Circle In A Square" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 20, 2014

Vocalist Lauren Kinhan is the alto quarter of vocal ensemble New York Voices and the leader of two previous solo outings, Hardly Blinking (Orchard, 2000) and Avalon (Koch, 2010). She was most recently hears on New York Voices holiday offering, Let It Snow (Five Cent Records, 2013). Kinhan's solo recordings are all originally composed by the ...

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Mary Halvorson - Michael Formanek - Tomas Fujiwara: Thumbscrew

Read "Thumbscrew" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 20, 2014

Kindred musical spirits unite on this composers' cooperative, featuring three musicians who have been forerunners and antagonists of new-fangled directions in the avant-garde jazz spectrum, other than ripping into customary modern jazz fare with a vengeance. The artists' divergent discographies offer a worldly testament to these aspects, besides their work as first-call session aces. With Michael ...

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Carla Bley - Andy Sheppard - Steve Swallow: Trios

by Luigi Sforza
February 20, 2014

Trios--ultima produzione dello strepitoso trio composto da Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard e Steve Swallow--è uno di quei progetti musicali felicemente riusciti, in cui l'assoluta spontaneità espressiva dell'atto creativo lascia magicamente traccia di sé negli esiti. Questa produzione ECM è intellettualmente stimolante, possiede un suggestivo potere incantatorio e sprigiona una decisa, sana e positiva energia a bassa ...

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Mike Wofford: It's Personal

Read "It's Personal" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 20, 2014

Sono appena una decina i dischi a nome di Mike Wofford, a fronte di una prestigiosa carriera iniziata in California negli ultimi anni del West Coast Jazz e tutt'ora in pieno svolgimento all'età di 75 anni. Dotato di una solida preparazione classica, ha iniziato a esibirsi con Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Chet ...