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Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Burstin' Out!

Read "Burstin' Out!" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall
October 2, 2013

Covering the Great American Songbook can be tricky, thankless work for a singer. The options for handling the material just aren't as numerous (i.e., nigh infinite) as they are for instrumentalists. Severely warping a melody, chopping it up or getting rid of it altogether work perfectly well if you're blowing through a horn. But such abstractions ...

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Gunhild Seim: Story Water

Read "Story Water" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 2, 2013

Story Water is the most ambitious achievement of Norwegian trumpeter Gunhild Seim. It is a musical fantasy inspired by texts about the universes of dreams and death, commissioned by the VossaJazz Festival and recorded live at the festival's opening day in March 2012. Seim expands her modern jazz-based musical language, as was documented ...

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Lotte Anker – Rodrigo Pinheiro – Hernâni Faustino: Birthmark

Read "Birthmark" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 2, 2013

Lotte Anker è tra le protagoniste della scena improvvisata quasi da un trentennio ormai. Aveva un tempo anche un trio tutto femminile con Marilyn Mazur e Marilyn Crispell. Ma si è fatta apprezzare soprattutto accanto a Craig Taborn e Gerald Cleaver negli ultimi anni (con dischi come Triptych, Live at the Loft e Floating Islands). Qui ...

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The Wrong Object: After the Exhibition

Read "After the Exhibition" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 2, 2013

Wrong Object is a Belgian band that has made significant inroads to accomplishing an exalted presence in the jazz-rock and progressive rock communities. The band's sound and strategy encompasses intermittent nods to the fabled British Canterbury progressive-rock scene with inferences to Frank Zappa and jazz-rock extrapolations akin to vintage Soft Machine. Toss in a few Albert ...

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Benjamin Taubkin - Adriano Adewale: The Vortex Sessions

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 2, 2013

Idee inusuali ma incerte connotano la recente produzione discografica di questo duo brasiliano. Le infinite sfumature e i registri espressivi della propria tradizione musicale vengono abbandonati dai due musicisti in favore di un jazz elegante e lirico, tutt'altro che originale sul piano dell'organizzazione musicale. I due evitano le pastoie del Brasile da cartolina, ma rimangono intrappolati ...

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Ron Aprea Sextet: Remembering Blakey

Read "Remembering Blakey" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
October 2, 2013

Legendary New York alto saxophonist Ron Aprea is recognized as much for his skills as an arranger, composer, record producer and band leader as he is known for his superb musicianship. On Remembering Blakey, Aprea brings to the fore all of his talents in churning out a monster album that pays homage to the leader of ...

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Michael Bates - Samuel Blaser Quintet: One from None

Read "One from None" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 1, 2013

L'idea di mettere in piedi una band prende corpo già nel lontano 2004 ma, a causa dei numerosi impegni dei due leader, bisogna attendere il dicembre del 2011 per veder entrare in sala di registrazione il trombonista Samuel Blaser e il bassista Michael Bates. Sono sufficienti poche ore per dare forma compiuta ai nove brani di ...

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Art Studio: Rendez vous

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 1, 2013

Dopo un paio di ritorni sulle proprie tracce, ecco un'altra volta all'opera uno dei gruppi storici del nuovo (allora) jazz italiano costituitosi in seno al cosiddetto post-free. Era il 1974 e l'Art Studio agiva come quartetto, di cui per la prima volta oggi, in questo nuovo capitolo discografico, manca una delle voci germinali, il sassofonista Carlo ...

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Berserk!: Berserk!

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by AAJ Italy Staff
October 1, 2013

Di Lorenzo Feliciati non si può dire che bene. È un instancabile esploratore di nuove sonorità che ama dilettarsi con profitto nell'arte del crossover. Pensiamo ai Naked Truth, il suo progetto artistico forse più riuscito, super quartetto con due album all'attivo che si muove senza apparente fatica in un territorio musicale che confina con lo speed-trash ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot

by John Sharpe
October 1, 2013

Having been simultaneously inspired by and ironic about '80s smooth jazz on the excellent Slippery Rock (Hot Cup Records, 2013), Mostly Other People Do the Killing delve back further into history to explore pre-War genres on Red Hot. It's a tall order for a foursome, so bassist and leader Moppa Elliott has added Brandon Seabrook on ...