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Peter Evans - Nate Wooley - Jim Black - Paul Lytton: Trumpets and Drums Live in Ljubljana

Read "Trumpets and Drums Live in Ljubljana" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 20, 2014

Due trombe, due batterie. Formazione perlomeno insolita, potenzialmente esplosiva sia ritmicamente che timbricamente, dalle limitate possibilità combinatorie, con un'energia che l'esibizione live dovrebbe liberare in quantità industriali. Ma il disco registrato a Lubiana nel giugno 2012--quello nella capitale slovena è festival tra i più stimolanti, propositivi e meglio organizzati del Vecchio Continente--non va in questa direzione, ...

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Michael Wollny Trio: Weltentraum

Read "Weltentraum" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 19, 2014

The inventive German pianist Michael Wollny combines a delight in exploration with an impressively high work rate. As a result, he's become one of the European jazz scene's most prolific and most unpredictable performers. Weltentraum is the debut recording from the Michael Wollny Trio, a piano, bass, drum collaboration that on the surface at least bears ...

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Natalie Cressman: Turn The Sea

Read "Turn The Sea" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 19, 2014

Trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman follows-up her excellent debut recording, Unfolding (Self Produced, 2012) with her fully realized yet completely different Turn the Sea. Cressman is a busy artist recently appearing on many projects as disparate as anchoring the horn section of Trey Anastasio's band and appearing on recording dates led by Peter Apfelbaum and Josh Roseman to ...

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Made To Break: Cherchez La Femme

Read "Cherchez La Femme" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 19, 2014

Conceived in 2011, the electric/acoustic ensemble Made To Break has had the opportunity to tour and evolve as an improvising unit. The result, their third disc recorded in 2013, Cherchez La Femme reveals a truly engaged band. That statement wouldn't be unexpected if we were talking about a rock group or a jazz band for that ...

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Mike Davis: Fortunes and Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2

Read "Fortunes and Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 19, 2014

Double bassist Mike Davis organizes his spontaneous, immediate improvisations-compositions according to two arbitrary guidelines. The Fortunes group of such compositions draw its inspiration from evocative song titles taken from about 100 fortune cookies, but Davis and his trio co-conspirators--saxophonist Jacob Duncan and drummer Jason Tiemann--never discuss their different interpretations of these titles before playing. The second ...

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Comanda Barabba: Jazz Resistant

Read "Jazz Resistant" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 19, 2014

Registrato ancora al Centro Produzioni Radio Rai di Roma, con la supervisione di Pino Saulo, il nuovo disco di Comanda Barabba si pone in continuità col precedente, confermando le coordinate espressive di fondo (e l'originale figura stilizzata in copertina) in un percorso segnato da nuove composizioni originali. A sei anni dalla prima incisione ...

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Nate Wooley Sextet: (Sit in) The Throne of Friendship

Read "(Sit in) The Throne of Friendship" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 19, 2014

Si respira aria di festa in (Sit In) The Throne of Friendship ultima fatica discografica del trombettista e compositore Nate Wooley. Si avverte quella sensazione un po' démodé che solo il circo o il luna park sono in grado di offrire, tra momenti di eccitazione per le novità o per le mirabolanti avventure promesse, rassicuranti sensazioni ...

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Twins of El Dorado: Portend the End

Read "Portend the End" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 19, 2014

Il duo newyorchese (di Brooklyn, per l'esattezza) Twins of El Dorado sposa un abbinamento decisamente inusuale: voce e tromba. In questo album, inciso nel febbraio 2012, convergono composizioni (con l'elasticità che si deve usare in questi casi, dove l'improvvisazione gioca un ruolo assolutamente centrale) dovute ai due performer, con le eccezioni di “Fare Thee," la cui ...

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Antonio Farao American Quartet: Evan

by Bruce Lindsay
February 18, 2014

Pianist and composer Antonio Faraò has a wealth of experience in jazz, beginning as a youngster in his native Italy and developing through a career that extends over 30 years. Evan, dedicated to his young son, is Faraò's twelfth album as leader. The seven originals and two covers are credited to Antonio Faraò American Quartet. The ...

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Alma Micic: Tonight

Read "Tonight" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 18, 2014

Vocalist Alma Micic hails from the creatively fertile Balkan area (Belgrade, Serbia) of Eastern Europe. As of late, she has been plying her trade in New York City and has struck up a very productive and creative relationship with guitarist Doug Wamble resulting in her third recording, Tonight, following The Hours (CTA Records, 2008) and Introducing ...