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Peter Brendler and John Abercrombie: The Angle Below
by Bruce Lindsay
Peter Brendler and guitarist John Abercrombie have developed their playing partnership over a number of years, but The Angle Below is their first duo recording. Brendler--"the guy on the bass" as he's described in Neil Tesser's sleeve notes--is the nominal leader but he refers to the album as a collaboration. He's not wrong. He may be ...
Mats Gustafsson: Shift
by John Sharpe
Having co-opted reed iconoclast Mats Gustafsson to pen the enthusiastic liners for their prosaically-named Two Nights in April (Ayler Records, 2010), young Swedish trio Correction goes one better on Shift by persuading their countryman to actually participate in the session. Over its five year existence, the threesome of pianist Sebastian Bergström, bassist Joacim Nyberg and drummer ...
Frank Gratkowski: Le Vent et la Gorge
by AAJ Italy Staff
La scrittura di Frank Gratkowski per il suo Quartetto garantisce, anche in questo ultimo CD, Le Vent et la Gorge, pari rilevanza ad ogni musicista del gruppo. “Harm-oh-nie," una suite di circa mezz'ora suddivisa in otto movimenti apre il disco e ne copre circa la metà. Al suo interno un'alternanza di infiammati episodi contrappuntistici e (a ...
The Avengers: On a Mission
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli Avengers sono in missione. Ma non per conto di Dio, come disse John Belushi nel mitico film Blues Brothers, bensì nel nome della musica jazz-rock degli anni ottanta, un genere che cerca faticosamente di sopravvivere nella buona e nella cattiva sorte. Il gruppo è decisamente di altissimo livello, con Adam Holzman, già alla corte di ...
Albare: The Road Ahead
by Glenn Astarita
Moroccan born guitarist Albere (Albert Dadon) emigrated to Australia at the age of 27 and blossomed into a celebrated jazz guitarist who also directs the Melbourne Jazz Festival amid other jazz-related endeavors. Here, he focuses on melodic textures via a breezy gait, employing a synth guitar and six-string electric while exhibiting an unhurried or building-block approach ...
The Idan Raichel Project: Quarter to Six
by Chris M. Slawecki
Since emerging at the helm of his Project roughly a decade ago, Israeli composer, keyboardist and bandleader Idan Raichel has spirited through rarified air: He co-wrote a song for racial harmony with Israeli President Shimon Perez, and performed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial inaugural ceremony in Washington, DC. He performed “Gift of Acceptance" with ...
Swedish Mobilia – Luca Aquino: Did You Hear Something?
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se all'estensore di una recensione fosse concessa la possibilità di usare un sintassi metalinguisticamente mimetica all'oggetto che recensisce, il testo che ne scaturirebbe risulterebbe, a seconda degli ascolti, più o meno incline al rispetto della langue di riferimento. Ad esempio, apprestandosi a scrivere degli Swedish Mobilia l'istinto sarebbe quello di lasciar scorrere in sequenza parole senza ...
Justin Morell: Justin Morell Dectet - Subjects and Compliments
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Justin Morell has succumb to his inner conflict between jazz and classical musics and composed a dozen pieces bowing to each in what may best be considered a jazz suite. This is not Gunther Schuller's “Third Stream" or the Modern Jazz Quartet's chamber jazz. It is a little bigger than that. Morell leads one of ...
Larry McKenna: From All Sides
by Victor L. Schermer
Larry McKenna's tenor saxophone playing is addictive. It's like driving a Maserati: you're probably going to want to take it on the road again and again, because it is so elegant and finely engineered. A product of the late swing band era (he did a turn with Woody Herman), McKenna has kept rigorously on a course ...
Sudo Quarte: Léandre - Zingaro - Tramontana - Lovens: Live at Banlieue Bleue
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi voglia ascoltare musica libera improvvisata sugli stilemi che si svilupparono in Europa dalla fine degli anni Sessanta, che negli anni Settanta raggiunse il culmine della propria vitalità, può rivolgersi senza esitare a questo disco. Quattro veterani dell'improvvisazione rinnovano il loro incontro in questo concerto, registrato nel marzo 2011 alla Salle Pablo Neruda di Bobigny durante ...
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