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Michael Jaeger Kerouac: Dance Around in Your Bones
by Glenn Astarita
Zurich-based saxophonist Michael Jaeger and his band Kerouac have been a well-known entity in the European progressive jazz community amid alternating personnel since 2006. Jaeger is a musical voyager and covers a broad sound-design spectrum, steeped in prismatic colorations and the axiomatic peaks and valleys. Rather uncannily, the musicians impart numerous variables as they shape a ...
Harold Lopez-Nussa: New Day
by Ian Patterson
Following in the footsteps and tradition of Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Roberto Fonseca, Harold López-Nussa is at the forefront of a new generation of Cuban jazz pianists, one that includes Rolando Luna and Marialy Pacheco--fellow winners of the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. López-Nussa's win in 2005 launched an international career that has since ...
Bill O'Connell + The Latin Jazz All-Stars: Zócalo
by Dan Bilawsky
Latin jazz piano dynamo Bill O'Connell found a parallel between this gathering and Zócalo, the main plaza situated in the center of Mexico City; that square has long been a place where people meet to connect, celebrate and join together as one, and the same sense of togetherness and unity associated with that spot surrounds this ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Golden State
by AAJ Italy Staff
Già l'organico, con una front line forte di flauto e fagotto, ci dice quali tinte cameristiche avvolgano questo CD del batterista canadese (tutti suoi i brani), inciso nel novembre 2012 a San Diego, dove vive e insegna Mark Dresser. In verità la componente jazzistica è tutt'altro che elusa, il che si avverte con chiarezza già nel ...
Tom Artwick: Jazz Scenes: Music from the Movies
by Jack Bowers
A pleasant album of themes from various movies, seamlessly performed for an appreciative audience by five able musicians whose earnest labors affirm that there is an abundance of talented artists in this country whose endeavors pass largely unnoticed unless concerts such as this one are recorded and released so that a wider audience is able to ...
Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: I Hear the Sound
by Chris May
Recorded in France in 2012 and 2013, I Hear the Sound is a live recording of saxophonist Archie Shepp's oratorio, “Attica Blues," co-written and arranged with Cal Massey in 1971, which was first heard on an Impulse! album a year later. Most of that album, Attica Blues, is revisited, with some adjustments to the running order ...
The Whammies: Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 2
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel primo trimestre di quest'anno, il brillante sestetto voluto in primo luogo da Jorrit Dijkstra e Pandelis Karayorgis per reimmergersi in quello straordinario scrigno che è il songbook di Steve Lacy, si è riunito una seconda volta in sala d'incisione, con esiti persino superiori al pur notevole album d'esordio. Là le pagine lacyane riesumate erano sette, ...
Vijay Iyer / Mike ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project
by Mark Corroto
It's been nearly 70 years since the film The Best Years Of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture (1946). The story revolved around three returning WWII veterans and their difficulties adjusting to civilian life. While those veterans came back to the economic powerhouse that was the United States, today's returning soldiers ...
Octobop: . . .Out of Nowhere
by Jack Bowers
With Octobop, what you see (and hear) is what you get: “octo," as in octet, and “bop," as in swinging, straight-from-the-shoulder jazz as practiced by the legendary masters who rewrote the music's vocabulary in the '40s, '50s and '60s. Saxophonist and prime mover Geoff Roach leads the California-based group on its sixth CD, Out of Nowhere, ...
Ingrid Laubrock - Olie Brice - Javier Carmona: Catatumbo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ingrid Laubrock, sassofonista tenore di origine germanica, ora residente a Brooklyn dopo molti anni trascorsi in Gran Bretagna, è un'artista che da qualche anno ha focalizzato la nostra attenzione. Il suo nome compare spesso al fianco dei più attivi musicisti della scena contemporanea e i suoi lavori da leader, tra cui spiccano le formazioni Anti-House e ...
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