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Rusconi: Revolution
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo quattro CD improntati a un pop-jazz brioso e spumeggiante, basato su riff semplici ed essenziali, non troppo distante da certe proposte alla Medeski, Martin & Wood, il nuovo lavoro del trio svizzero Rusconi rappresenta un punto di svolta nella loro discografia, aggiungendo elementi nuovi al sound di gruppo. La base musicale è sempre di non ...
Meir Shitrit: Way
by Dan McClenaghan
Isreali-born and now San Diego-based guitarist Meir Shitrit's Way sounds like a recording that guitarist Bill Frisell might have made, had he been born and raised in Israel. Frisell's often mulit-layered sets are, more often than not, a celebration of Americana--though certainly there are tangents and hybridizations in the discography. Meir's debut is a well-crafted, multi-ethnic ...
Jana Herzen: Passion of a Lonely Heart
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jana Herzen è un'artista raffinata che nella vita ha fatto tante cose. Figlia di due professori di Stanford (il padre e la madre, Leonard e Leonore Herzemberg, sono due celebri genetisti ed immunologi), Jana ha iniziato a frequentare la scena artistica newyorkese negli anni Ottanta durante il periodo universitario (studi in arte drammatica ed intensa attività ...
Markus Gottschlich: Of Places Between
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Markus Gottschlich is anything but a traditionalist, yet tradition, or more accurately, traditions, play a major role in his music; he doesn't believe that a single tradition must be addressed in isolation. In Gottschlich's world, songo and samba can meet and marry ("Invitation"), Billy Strayhorn's music can stray a bit, taking a detour to Jamaica ...
Op Der Schmelz: Live
by Glenn Astarita
This multinational quartet casts a surfeit of moody and climactically oriented movements, captured for this disc live at a venue in Luxembourg. Gushing with shifty theme-building exercises, New York- based pianist Roberta Piket often serves as the director of operations via her sympathetic comping, cascading chord voicings, and animated free-bop improvisational passages, yet overall, it's a ...
Becky Archibald: Midnight At Monteton
by Chris Mosey
Becky Archibald is an extremely talented lady. Relatively new to jazz, her composing and arranging skills at best warrant comparison with those of such great names as Marty Paich and Mary Lou Williams. Though they are all her own and bang up to date. A native of Anderson, Indiana, she sums up her ...
MARTUX_m Crew - Fabrizio Bosso - Francesco Bearzatti - Eivind Aarset: Imagine
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel 2009 reinterpretarono alla loro maniera In a Silent Way, il capolavoro elettrico di Miles Davis. A distanza di tre anni si ripresentano con Imagine, riferimento ad un altro capolavoro, questa volta firmato John Lennon. Ma non si tratta dell'ennesimo tentativo di dare nuova veste alla canzone simbolo di una generazione, né di un tuffo nel ...
Patrick Cornelius: Infinite Blue
by Edward Blanco
Veteran New York saxophonist and composer Patrick Cornelius delivers his fourth album as leader with Infinite Blue, a gem of a recording that sparkles with an A-list of players interpreting eight new originals and one cover tune in one audacious session of music. Not really an unusual feat for this three-time winner of the ASCAP Young ...
Yellowjackets: A Rise in the Road
by Ian Patterson
With the departure of bassist Jimmy Haslip in 2012, pianist Russell Ferrante is the sole original member, more than three decades after the band's debut recording Yellowjackets (Warner Bros, 1981) set the ball rolling. That said, saxophonist Bob Mintzer has been onboard 22 years and drummer Will Kennedy 14. Not for nothing does the twenty second ...
David Binney: Lifted Land
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Criss Cross è un'etichetta olandese storicamente impegnata a testimoniare il cosiddetto mainstream attraverso musicisti e incisioni che aggiornano e rinfrescano la lezione dei maestri rimanendo ben all'interno del canone e rispettosi degli assiomi principali. Con delle eccezioni in un catalogo che talvolta apre a musicisti normalmente abituati a frequentare territori più avventurosi come è il ...
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