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Skykptn's 28: Skykptn's 28

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 18, 2013

Colpisce dapprima la strumentazione con una piccola sezione di archi, chitarra elettrica compresa, più batteria e sassofono. Poi durante l'ascolto è lo strano miscuglio di musica popolare, idioma jazzistico, musica da ballo, frammenti ambient, melodie folk, sparate free a scompigliare le carte. Viola e violoncello sono tutt'altro che decorativi, con incursioni anche violente sui registri acuti, ...

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Jan Sturiale: Do not disturb The Peace

Read "Do not disturb The Peace" reviewed by Marta Ramon

by Marta Ramon
October 18, 2013

Do not disturb The Peace sets out the formation in which Jan Sturiale envisages his music. This guitarist makes a step forward and changes the trio format from his previous CD, Strange Meetings (Drawtheline Records, 2009), to a quintet, which gives a complete body, harmoniously and melodically, to his compositions. The ten tunes on ...

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Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC

Read "Live in NYC" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 17, 2013

Live in NYC is vocalist Gretchen Parlato's eagerly awaited live recording and follow-up to 2011's excellent The Lost And Found (Obliqsound). Gretchen Parlato (Obliqsound, 2006) and 2011's In A Dream (Obliqsound) round out her catalog as a leader. That said, Parlato has been much more busy than would be indicated by her four recordings in eight ...

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Book of Three: Continuum (2012)

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 17, 2013

Partiamo da “Aware of Vacuity," il lungo brano di Jim Hobbs - sassofonista nella Fully Celebrated Orchestra e nel sestetto di Taylor Ho Bynum - che potrebbe portare la firma di Jim Pepper o Don Cherry o di un qualche compositore di origine balcanica. La melodia semplice semplice, quasi una ninna nanna ipnotica viene prima aggirata ...

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Kenny Barron/Gerry Gibbs/Ron Carter: Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio

Read "Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 17, 2013

Drummer Gerry Gibbs calls this band the Thrasher Dream Trio. That “Thrasher" aspect of the appellation might make the uninitiated conjure images of burly tattooed guys in sleeveless shirts, sporting long black hair--and maybe facial make-up--slamming their instruments in the heavy metal bass/drums/guitar mode. But this couldn't be further from the music at hand. Gerry Gibbs ...

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Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel: Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 17, 2013

Frederik Leroux, Robert Landfermann, Jonas Burgwinkel scelgono l'approccio diretto e senza compromessi che i critici americani solitamente definiscono con il tag 'take no prisoners,' ma lo fanno seguendo non la lezione hendrixiana, come sarebbe facile presupporre, vista la strumentazione: lo fanno invece cercando di catturare le brume dell'avanguardia e i sussurri dell'improvvisazione più creativa e iconoclasta. ...

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Jamie Baum: In This Life

Read "In This Life" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 17, 2013

Flutist and composer Jamie Baum's In This Life is a richly textured album both in a harmonic and conceptual sense. Inspired by her travels through India and Nepal and influenced by the music of the late Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, this collection of intriguing originals (and two Khan covers) is simultaneously deeply spiritual and ...

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The Wood Brothers: The Muse

Read "The Muse" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
October 17, 2013

The Muse represents a quantum leap for the Wood Brothers as they fully integrate multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jano Rix into the band, a process nurtured with not inconsiderable expertise by producer Buddy Miller. At the same time, the album suggests avenues of exploration for the threesome as they continue their evolution. Rix distinguishes himself ...

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Peter Landis – Gabriela Friedli: Urgenta

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 17, 2013

Quello tra il sassofonista Peter Landis e la pianista Gabriela Friedli è un incontro basato, essenzialmente, sull'ascolto reciproco e sulla perfetta occupazione degli spazi, espressivi e formali, a disposizione. Urgenta si risolve in sette tracce, tutte a firma di Landis, registrate nel novembre 2011 al Maiers Theater di Zurigo, dalle quali emerge la capacità del duo ...

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Ric Molina Group: @Dreamland

Read "@Dreamland" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
October 16, 2013

The Ric Molina Group's debut, @Dreamland, is a far cry from some of their leader's other gigs as a veteran New York guitarist who has performed in the pit orchestra for the Broadway hit Wicked or composed and recorded underscores for the iconic PBS children's television program The Electric Company. While the target audience is undoubtedly ...