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Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts: Hang Time

Read "Hang Time" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 20, 2013

Hang Time consists of music written and performed by two student ensembles at the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts: Group Giz, an octet directed by trumpeter Greg Gisbert, and Group Gunn, a septet presided over by pianist Eric Gunnison. The CCJA is a non-profit organization “dedicated to empowering youth to creatively express themselves through the ...

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Arun Ghosh: A South Asian Suite

Read "A South Asian Suite" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
October 19, 2013

Clarinetist/composer Arun Ghosh's first two albums catapulted him to the forefront of the UK jazz scene. The British-Asian's beguilingly eclectic influences from India, the Middle East and UK urban culture spawned music on Northern Namaste (Camoci Records, 2008) and Primal Odyssey (Camoci Records, 2011) that interwove haunting melodies, groove-driven ensemble play and ecstatic soloing. Ghosh won ...

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Idan Santhaus: There You Are

Read "There You Are" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 19, 2013

This debut release from composer/multi-reedist Idan Santhaus was a long time coming. There You Are actually started to take shape in April of 2008, when four of these tracks were recorded with a solid sixteen piece band, but that was just the beginning. It took three more years for Santhaus to get back into the studio ...

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I Know You Well Miss Clara: Chapter One

Read "Chapter One" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2013

It's another nascent progressive jazz-rock band from Indonesia--with the idiosyncratic moniker--brought to us by the New York-based record label, Moonjune Records. The group sound and makeup tenders yet another slant from this region that to varying degrees, impart ethnocentric folk with Western musical concepts. With its debut, the young quartet's rite of passage is largely centered ...

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Bob Mover: My Heart Tells Me

Read "My Heart Tells Me" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
October 19, 2013

Jazz saxophone veteran Bob Mover has put together a very satisfying two-disc release, My Heart Tell Me, with both swinging instrumentals and his very effective,unadorned vocals. Disc one has Mover mostly singing standards in soft pensive fashion, bringing to mind Nat Cole, as well as Chet Baker, his early-days cohort. Standouts on this ...

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Jay Vonada: Organ Trio West - Groovin’ It

Read "Organ Trio West - Groovin’ It" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 18, 2013

Trombonist Jay Vonada heads up two trombone-organ-drums trios called Organ Trio East and West. His Organ Trio West consists of himself and organist Alex Sell and drummer Kevin Lowe. Groovin' It consists of nine compositions, original and standards, presented in this novel and provocative format. While organ trios (de rigeur sans bass) are nothing new, they ...

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Buddy Flett: Buddy Flett - Rough Edges

Read "Buddy Flett - Rough Edges" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 18, 2013

It's all in a name. Some names and occupations just go together, especially in sports. Harmon Killebrew, Orlando Cepeda, and Catfish Hunter are all baseball names. Blues musicians have similar iconic names. The Ur-Blues has Eddie “Son" House, Nehemiah “Skip" James, Tommy Johnson, and Charlie Patton. The generation after has Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), Howlin' Wolf ...

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Antonio Jasevoli: Tetris

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 18, 2013

Già apprezzato con Quiet Journey, il chitarrista Antonio Jasevoli torna a incidere per la Parco della Musica Records un album basato su alcune sue composizioni originali. La scittura di Tetris si rivela varia, sia dal punto di vista espressivo sia formale, anche grazie alla partecipazione di musicisti di grande duttilità, giovani e navigati, tra i quali ...

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Kidd Jordan & Hamid Drake: A Night In November - Live in New Orleans

Read "A Night In November - Live in New Orleans" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 18, 2013

New Orleans is valued for its storied traditional jazz legacy, and not so much for avant-garde persuasions. But when it comes to off-center or free-jazz music, saxophonist Kidd Jordan's artistic persona frequently becomes a topic of conversation. He's performed and recorded with iconoclastic musicians and is perhaps the Crescent City's most prolific improviser. This excursion features ...

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Eyes of a Blue Dog: Rise

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 18, 2013

Dalla Norvegia ecco l'ennesimo combo di avant jazz. Si chiamano Eyes of a Blue Dog e sono, in pratica, un trio: bandleader è il batterista Terje Evensen, discepolo e collaboratore del drummer britannico Martin France, affiancato dal trombettista Rory Simmons, leader del collettivo londinese Loop, e dalla vocalist Elisabeth Nygard-Pearson che, oltre a co-firmare insieme ai ...