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Sex Mob: Plays Fellini
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nino Rota, l'immaginario felliniano e i Sex Mob. Una triangolazione perfetta. Talmente perfetta che vien da chiedersi come mai si sia fatta disco soltanto all'alba del 2013. La risposta è nelle note di copertina. Racconta Steven Bernstein che l'idea dell'omaggio gli ronzava in testa da un bel pezzo. Ma suona qua e partecipa là, si è ...
Tierney Sutton: After Blue
by C. Michael Bailey
Tierney Sutton is the calm current flowing through the turbulent water of jazz vocals, making big changes and important recordings without stirring the water too much. Her creative presence and influence cannot be denied when listening to Gretchen Parlato, Becca Stevens and Renee Yoxon among many others. Sutton's musical metaphysics is grounded in cool yet penetrating ...
Giovanni Mazzarino Latin Sextet: Retrato
by Francesco Martinelli
There's something very appealing for me in Giovanni Mazzarino's piano style, as well as his way of thinking. Hailing from Sicily-- whose greatness in history and culture is equal only to the amount of problems it finds itself up against--like his famous namesake, the scheming Cardinal, the schemes he's scheming and the dreams he's dreaming seems ...
Stacey Kent: The Changing Lights
by Bruce Lindsay
Stacey Kent is a jazz success story--not just in terms of her talent, but also in terms of her international popularity, with her previous three albums clocking up a total of over 500,000 sales. What makes her so successful? The Changing Lights, her tenth album, demonstrates all of the qualities.There's the material, a mix ...
Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sam Reed, sassofonista di Filadelfia, settantasei anni alla data di quest'incisione (effettuata il 1° novembre 2011), ha conosciuto il suo periodo di maggior fulgore a cavallo fra anni Cinquanta e Sessanta sciorinando un jazz ad alto propellente impastato di R&B e soul. Lo ritroviamo mezzo secolo dopo accanto al pianista triestino Roberto Magris (che potrebbe essere ...
Kanji Ohta & The Jazz Family with Jimmy Heath: Our Jazz Family
by Dan Bilawsky
The music that appears on Our Jazz Family was meant to serve as an aural commemorative keepsake-of-sorts. Pianists Kanji Ohta and Toshiko Kiryu celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary by putting on a concert with their family and friends in 2002. The concert was recorded and kept as a private memento at first, but ten years later, ...
Pram Trio: Visitor Parking
by Dan McClenaghan
An abandoned vintage perambulator--a pram--discovered on the streets of Toronto inspired the Canadian threesome to take as a name for their group the Pram Trio. Pictured on the cover of their debut album, Visitor Parking, the pram seems to have seen better days. It suffers rust and corrosion. If it ever possessed a sun shade, it ...
Tierney Sutton: After Blue
by Dan Bilawsky
Joni Mitchell and jazz have long engaged in mutualism. Mitchell subtly absorbed the ideals of this music, which were then filtered into her work, and she built musical relationships with some of the finest jazz musicians to walk this Earth; the list of her collaborators--bassist Charles Mingus, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, guitarist Pat Metheny and numerous others--is ...
Snarky Puppy: Ground Up
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il piacere del fare musica allo stato puro. Energia che trasuda da ogni singolo bit del compact disc, una marea di sollecitazioni sonore che arrivano da territori i più disparati. Che tutto sembri fermarsi a livello epidermico (ma è appunto un impressione, i deliziosi arrangiamenti, per esempio, sono lì a testimoniarlo) poco importa a noi e, ...
Rocket Science: Rocket Science
by Mark Corroto
It isn't rocket science except when it is, indeed, Rocket Science. This renowned group of improvising superheroes delivers an audacious take on electric- acoustic chamber music. Rocket Science is a quartet assembled by trumpeter Peter Evans, who is probably best known for his work in the disobedient quartet Mostly Other People Do The Killing. He also ...
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