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Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man

Read "Shadow Man" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 9, 2013

When Tim Berne released his ECM debut, Snakeoil in 2012, it quickly garnered some of the best reviews of the saxophonist/composer's career, ending up on a number of year-end best of lists. And why not? With a group already together for a couple years (as Los Totopos), Snakeoil represented a major step forward for Berne, both ...

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Patti Larkin: Still Green

Read "Still Green" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 9, 2013

Singer-songwriter Patty Larkin is one of the best of her kind. She belongs to a league of artists who redefined the poetic and instrumental boundaries of the folk singer-songwriter genre such as Greg Brown, Bruce Cockburn and Richard Thompson. She is a wise lyricist and inventive guitarist who can encapsulate a profound emotional experience in few ...

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Hush Point: Hush Point

Read "Hush Point" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 9, 2013

Se tra i dieci brani contenuti in Hush Point due portano la firma di Jimmy Giuffre, se la front-line del quartetto pianoless è formato da tromba e sax, e se il trombettista del gruppo ha mosso i primi passi nella California degli anni sessanta, qualche indizio su quello che si andrà ad ascoltare ci viene fornito. ...

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Tom Dempsey: Saucy

by Glenn Astarita
October 9, 2013

Highly-regarded New York City session guitarist Tom Dempsey's sixth solo endeavor pays homage to the classic organ combo format, topped with a piquant sense of swing. Tuneful and capacious, the guitarist's dark- toned sound nicely parallels with organist Ron Oswanski's warm phrasings, synchronous progressions and sleek solos. Dempsey's Wes Montgomery-like chord solos and soul-jazz riffs are ...

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Clayton Brothers: The Gathering

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 9, 2013

Non è sempre detto che i segni del passato, quando vengono riproposti con onesto senso di devozione e vocazione, debbano a tutti i costi risultare vecchi o inattuali. Come per molti musicisti coevi, anche per i Clayton Brothers praticare la tradizione implica apertamente rispettare un sistema normativo dotato di natura rituale e simbolica che, portato avanti ...

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Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Read "Black Aces" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 9, 2013

Keyboardist Jamie Saft, guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi bring merciless new meaning to the phrase “heavy rock quartet." Saft and Morris first met at the New England Conservatory twenty years ago; Saft and Pani are bandmates in Metallic Taste of Blood; and Saft has worked with Dunn on several projects led ...

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The Chris Parker Trio: The Chris Parker Trio

Read "The Chris Parker Trio" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 8, 2013

Drummer Chris Parker has a to-die-for résumé. Over the past four decades, he's worked with everybody from the The Brecker Brothers to Miles Davis and Laura Nyro to Lou Rawls, taking a genre-blind approach to drumming that continues to serve him well. As a sideman, he's made his mark time and again with a who's who ...

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Manu Codjia – Géraldine Laurent – Christophe Marguet: Looking for Parker

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 8, 2013

Il Parker di cui va alla ricerca il trio Codjia-Laurent-Marguet è ovviamente Charlie, il mitico Bird ben simboleggiato dall'uccellino presente in copertina. La formazione, ideata da Marguet ma assolutamente paritetica nella distribuzione di ruoli e responsabilità, ne ripercorre il repertorio in modo affettuoso, molto fedele nell'impostazione e nelle linee melodiche, meno nelle sonorità e nelle armonizzazioni. ...

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Erik Friedlander: Claws & Wings

Read "Claws & Wings" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
October 8, 2013

How does one deal with the loss of a loved one? For many artists, expressing remorse through their work is a normal, sometimes necessary, part of the grieving process. Creative improvising musicians, like renowned cellist Erik Friedlander, are no exception.Lynn Shapiro, Friedlander's wife of 22 years (and an award winning choreographer and writer in ...

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The Wrong Object: After the Exhibition

Read "After the Exhibition" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 8, 2013

Sono passati cinque anni dall'album Stories from the Shed e il gruppo belga The Wrong Object torna con un nuovo album intitolato After the Exhibition che segna anche importanti cambiamenti nella band. Rimangono a bordo il chitarrista e indiscusso leader Michel Delville (che compone da solo o in coabitazione sei degli undici brani presenti) e il ...