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Ed Reed: Ed Reed - I'm A Shy Guy: A Tribute to the King Cole Trio & Their Music

Read "Ed Reed - I'm A Shy Guy: A Tribute to the King Cole Trio & Their Music" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2013

San Francisco vocalist Ed Reed is a bona fide contemporary of West Coast jazz luminaries: Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Hampton Hawes. Unlike that august group, Reed remains to tell his story, and by proxy, theirs' in the bargain. Like this same group, drugs (and in the case of Gray, murder) suspended ...

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Billy Mintz: Mintz Quartet

Read "Mintz Quartet" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 1, 2013

What is remarkable about drummer's Billy Mintz's debut recording Mintz Quartet is his masterful versatility on his instrument. That is no surprise as Mintz, an in demand sideman, has played with a wide variety of musicians during his career ranging from disco diva Gloria Gaynor to saxophonists Lee Konitz and Charles Lloyd. A well-known educator and ...

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Manuel Valera & New Cuban Express: Expectativas

Read "Expectativas" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
October 1, 2013

A follow up to pianist Manuel Valera's 2013 Grammy--nominated New Cuban Express, his seventh album as leader, Expectativas continues the melding of Afro-Cuban rhythms with the modern fusion jazz sound fusing the two into a new form of jazz best described as “modern Latin fusion." Consisting of eleven originals and one cover, the project is a ...

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Gavin Templeton: In Series

Read "In Series" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 1, 2013

Alto saxophonist Gavin Templeton has become a pivotal force in the L.A. progressive jazz scene and it's easily discernible, given his strong improvisational faculties, resonating tone, and penchant for bridging conventional means into the outside schema of the jazz vernacular. On his second solo release for Nine Winds Records, he embeds rock riffs, variable tempos, and ...

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Erik Friedlander - Ikue Mori - Sylvie Courvoisier: Claws & Wings

Read "Claws & Wings" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 30, 2013

Nel novembre del 2011 il violoncellista Erik Friedlander, tra gli esponenti più lucidi e intensi della scena downtown di questi decenni, perde per una terribile malattia l'adorata moglie Lynn [anch'essa artista di grande sensibilità]. Come se non bastasse il dolore per questa prematura scomparsa, negli stessi giorni una caduta dalla bici gli lesiona il legamento collaterale ...

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Philip Clouts Quartet: The Hour Of Pearl

Read "The Hour Of Pearl" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 30, 2013

The Hour Of Pearl--a title taken from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row--is the second album from the UK-based Philip Clouts Quartet. A melodic collection of original tunes, it combines lightness of touch with a rhythmic sensibility: a winning combination.Pianist and composer Clouts was born in Cape Town. Although he moved to the UK in his ...

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Tommaso Cappellato & Astral Travel: Cosm'ethic

Read "Cosm'ethic" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 30, 2013

Grafica di copertina e titoli rimandano alla galassia Sun Ra e affini o a musicisti come Pharoah Sanders e Alice Coltrane caratterizzati da una intensa spiritualità e da uno spiccato interesse verso le musiche orientali. Astral Travel, ultima creatura nata dalla vulcanica mente del batterista e compositore Tommaso Cappellato, contiene senza dubbio qualche riferimento a questi ...

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Roberto Magris: Cannonball Funk 'n Friends / One Night in with Hope . . . Vol. 2

Read "Cannonball Funk 'n Friends / One Night in with Hope . . . Vol. 2" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 30, 2013

Pianist Roberto Magris, who logs so much time in studios that he should be awarded Frequent Recording points, is back with two more albums, the first by a quintet with alto Jim Mair sitting in for Julian Cannonball" Adderley and trumpeter Hermon Mehari for Cannonball's brother, Nat, the second a trio session billed as Vol. 2 ...

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The Depaul University Jazz Ensemble: Salutes Woody Herman

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by Jack Bowers
September 30, 2013

Were he still with us, bandleader Woody Herman would have turned one hundred years young on May 16, 2013. What better way, then, to mark the occasion than by doing something that made “the Chopper" happier than anything else: swinging hard and often. Chicago's DePaul University Jazz Ensemble does precisely that on this superb album comprised ...

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Walter Beltrami: Kernel Panic

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 30, 2013

Le fonti d'ispirazione possono essere diverse ma la musica di Walter Beltrami conferma il suo carattere ambizioso, visionario e coinvolgente. Se il precedente disco per l'Auand (Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo, 2011) si legava all'omonimo disturbo percettivo che provocava al chitarrista fortissime vertigini, il progetto attuale nasce dalla riflessione su un fatto accadutogli (il crash del sistema informatico ...