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Günter Baby Sommer: Dedications

Read "Dedications" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Se tutti i musicisti festeggiassero i propri settant'anni come sta facendo Günter Baby Sommer in questo 2013, ci sarebbe da fare festa permanente. Il batterista percussionista di Dresda che da sempre condivide lo stesso spirito libertario e iconoclasta di alcuni dei più radicali musicisti dell'area continentale è universalmente riconosciuto, sin dagli inizi della sua carriera, ma ...

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Judy Wexler: What I See

Read "What I See" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel

One of the deepest relationships in jazz blossomed on the West Coast in the 1950s, when singer June Christy and arranger Pete Rugolo combined their gifts on numerous albums. Christy supplied the voice and the heart, which Rugolo set off to perfection with exquisite, often surprising arrangements. The deep understanding between the two artists was particularly ...

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Billie Davies: 12 Volt

Read "12 Volt" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Belgium native and Los Angeles based drummer Billie Davies continues to forge her own path in the improvised music world. Endowed with an explorative temperament and unique, yet definite swing sense, Davies pays homage to Gypsy musicians on her fourth release as a leader, 12 Volt. Just to be clear, this is not an ...

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Goat's Notes: Wild Nature Executives

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Goat's Notes è un sestetto proveniente da Mosca (in alcuni brani si allarga fino a tentetto), che pratica i sentieri della libera improvvisazione con l'approccio cui ci hanno spesso abituato le formazioni provenienti dal quella scena musicale. Se quindi il free è l'ancoraggio principale all'idioma jazzistico altri ingredienti giocano un ruolo fondamentale nella fantasmagorica proposta musicale ...

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Daniel Ogren: Laponia II

Read "Laponia II" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Swedish guitarist Daniel Ögren's second musical tribute to the landscapes of Northern Sweden (after Laponia, Hoob, 2011) is a fascinating and suggestive journey. Ögren, member of singer- songwriter Anna von Hausswolff's band, succeeds to create a musical equivalent to the scenery of bare mountains, the sound of clear streams and moss-green hills into insightful and nuanced ...

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Pietro Ballestrero Ensemble: Kyra

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il mago delle sale di registrazione Marco Lincetto è l'artefice della casa discografica Velut Luna. Fra musica classica e jazz, vinile, CD e filea da scaricare rappresenta un punto di riferimento per gli audiofili della penisola. Questo disco di Pietro Ballestrero con un quartetto d'archi più il contrabbassista di origine siciliana Fulvio Buccafusco, che è pure ...

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The Auanders: Live in Pisa

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Gli Auanders, ovvero quelli dell'Auand. Nella sua ormai lunga attività, l'etichetta pugliese fondata da Marco Valente ha delineato - insieme a molti musicisti, esordienti ed affermati, prevalentemente ma non esclusivamente italiani - un percorso musicale intrigante e riconoscibile. Come ogni casa discografica che si rispetti, anche l'Auand svolge funzione di catalizzatore di situazioni, aggregatore di personalità, ...

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Jesper Bodilsen: Scenografie

Read "Scenografie" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

When Danish bassist Jesper Bodilsen stepped out as a leader with the album Short Stories for Dreamers (Stunt, 2009), he proved himself not only as a superbly skilled instrumentalist, but also as a master of subdued poetic moods. Together with trumpeter Peter Asplund, guitarist Ulf Wakenius and vibraphonist Severi Pyysalo, he created an entire universe of ...

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Francesco Turrisi: Grigio

Read "Grigio" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

For pianist Francesco Turrisi 'old' music is a redundant term. In the Dublin-based Italian's world all music exists in a continuum. Turrisi's debut, Si Dolce e il Tormento (Diatribe Records, 2009) may be the only example of the mediaeval theorbo--a long-necked lute-- in a jazz setting. Fotografia (Diatribe Records, 2011)--a series of piano trio improvisations--veered between ...

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Szilàrd Mezei Vocal Ensemble: Fújj szél, Zenta, visszhangozz szél!

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Temperature piuttosto distanti da quelle a cui Mezei ci ha abituati caratterizzano questo album in tentetto, la cui principale peculiarità sta nella presenza della sorella di Szilàrd, Kinga, la cui vocalità, molto mitteleuropea, ricorda non poco quella della svizzera Irene Aebi, com'è noto compagna d'arte e di vita di Steve Lacy. Temperature distanti, si diceva, decisamente ...


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