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Halie Loren: Simply Love
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Halie Loren has never avoided love songs. Her spectacularly engaging Heart First (Justin Time, 2012) is actually full of them, but this program one-ups that album in the love department. Loren mixes and matches popular songs from a variety of sources and eras, throws in a few originals for good measure, and lets her warm ...
Randy Brecker: Night in Calisia
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The waters of history significantly bathe Kalisz, Poland's oldest city. Specifically, they source back when Kalisz was an important stop on the Amber Road to Rome. Historical streams of another type also run broadly through this exuberantly satisfying recording offered by the triumvirate of trumpeter, Randy Brecker, pianist/composer Wlodek Pawlik, and the hometown Kalisz Philharmonic.
ReDiviDeR: ReDiviDeR meets I Dig Monk, Tuned
by Ian Patterson
Jazz/creative music fans who dig palindromes and anagrams had to wait a long time between trumpeter Miles Davis' Live Evil (Columbia, 1971) and ReDiviDeR's debut Never Odd or EveN (Diatribe Records, 2011). Forty years must be an eternity for addicts of words that spell the same way backwards as they do forwards. In addition to the ...
Cacaw: Stellar Power
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inizialmente, siamo nel 2010, Cacaw si presenta come trio rigorosamente acustico nel quale le composizioni del pianista Landon Knoblock fungono essenzialmente da pretesto per alimentare l'estro improvvisativo dei componenti del gruppo in forme più o meno organizzate e con diversi gradi di libertà esecutiva. Poi, in maniera per certi versi misteriosa, avviene un deciso cambio di ...
Joey DeFrancesco: One for Rudy
by Jack Bowers
The “Rudy" singled out for favor on this new CD by organist Joey DeFrancesco's admirable trio is the legendary recording engineer Rudy van Gelder who engineered, mixed and mastered the album at his studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. DeFrancesco, whose mastery of the Hammond B3 is universally recognized and unquestioned, wrote the groovy homage to van ...
Carol Morgan: Retroactive
by C. Michael Bailey
After two well-behaved, straight-ahead, and positively reviewed recordings-- Opening (Blue Bamboo Music, 2010) and Blue Glass Music (Blue Bamboo Music, 2011)--Texas-cum-New York City trumpeter Carol Morgan decides to take a walk on a wilder side with Retroactive: a mostly electronic affair prominently featuring guitarists Mike Stern and Chris Cortez as well as one Jeff Sipe (Apt. ...
Cliff Hines: Wanderlust
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo ottimo Wanderlust del chitarrista Cliff Hines si muove elegantemente in un clima onirico, dominato da ovattate sensazioni, che ci fa piacere associare al liquido amniotico, anche se nessuno di noi ricorda a livello conscio quelle piacevolezze morbide nelle quali siamo cresciuti. Un ritorno nel ventre della musica, senza che questo significhi rispolverare antiche tradizioni che, ...
Objets Trouvés: Gabriela Friedli - Co Streiff - Jan Schlegel - Dieter Ulrich: Fresh Juice
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi ben conosce gli sviluppi dell'avanguardia nord-europea degli anni '70, non si lascerà incantare da questo disco. Il gruppo che lo propone mira con risultati discontinui a rinverdirne gli esiti timbrici ed architettonici. Se non sostenuta da idee veramente originali, tale pratica rischia di essere altrettanto normalizzata rispetto al mainstream contemporaneo di derivazione hardbop. A dispetto ...
Samuel Blaser Consort in Motion: A Mirror to Machaut
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's largely mellower and investigative Consort in Motion differs from his acclaimed quartet's often hard- hitting and somewhat deviously entertaining persona for the hatOLOGY record label, partly due to French guitarist Marc Ducret's electrifying assaults. Thus, A Mirror to Machaut sheds additional light on Blaser's approach to composition, that coincides with a band ...
Dino Betti van der Noot: The Stuff Dreams Are Made On
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sono ormai rare le big band jazz che abbiano la voglia e la possibilità di perseguire una precisa progettualità. Quella guidata da Dino Betti si distingue per un piglio del tutto inusuale rispetto all'imperante mainstream, grazie anche alla presenza di un nucleo storico consolidato che asseconda al meglio le fervide idee del leader. Al bando gli ...
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