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Mark Masters Ensemble: Everything You Did - The Music of Walter Becker & Donald Fagen

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by AAJ Italy Staff
September 25, 2013

Qual è stata la lezione degli Steely Dan? Avvicinare il pop al jazz. Semplice, no? Non proprio, perché Donald Fagen e Walter Becker avevano davanti a sé varie possibilità e infinite soluzioni di sintesi. Non hanno scelto certo quella più mainstream, più scontata. Non era da loro, professionisti e perfezionisti fino alla nausea. Costruivano melodiche accattivanti ...

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Judy Wexler: What I See

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by Nicholas F. Mondello
September 25, 2013

When they excavated the world-famous La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, scientists discovered an other-worldly array of fossilized treasures. Who would have thought that, millennia ago, in the middle of Tinseltown, saber-toothed tigers and mammoths were sashaying down Rodeo Drive? In an analogous way, What I See from Judy Wexler yields surprisingly terrific finds, primarily ...

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Matt Parker: Worlds Put Together

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by Hrayr Attarian
September 25, 2013

Genre bending saxophonist Matt Parker's debut album, Worlds Put Together, is a collection of mostly short pieces that crackle with originality and are imbued with an urgent and imaginative spontaneity. These are not mere sketches for expanded and more developed future compositions. They are conceptually crystalized, complete yet free-flowing and raw works that pack a visceral ...

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Lucien Dubuis Trio: Lucien Dubuis Trio: Design Your Future / Future Rock

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 25, 2013

Fino a qualche anno fa, il centro culturale svizzero di Milano aveva una buona programmazione musicale. Era possibile ascoltare dal vivo, con una certa regolarità, musicisti elvetici affermati e/o emergenti. Tra questi c'era Lucien Dubuis, giovane ed interessante saxofonista - clarinettista. Oggi questa programmazione musicale è praticamente azzerata, e siamo dunque costretti a seguire il percorso ...

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Paolo Benedettini: Paolo Benedettini Quartet

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by Francesco Martinelli
September 24, 2013

I'm afraid a little local pride is in order here. Bassist Paolo Benedettini hails from my hometown of Pisa, and the disc has been recorded and produced locally in cooperation with the Jazzwide organization, very active in promoting events both in the club of the same name as well as in other venues of the Leaning ...

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Michael Pedicin: Why Stop Now/Ubuntu

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by Dan Bilawsky
September 24, 2013

Michael Pedicin, like many a tenor saxophonist, bows at the altar of John Coltrane. Pedicin's work in the past has frequently referenced that iconic figure through theme, spirit, sound and/or song selection, and he continues along a similar path on Why Stop Now/Ubuntu. For his twelfth outing as a leader, Pedicin crafted a ...

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Lucerne Jazz Orchestra: Still Now

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 24, 2013

Questa bella orchestra svizzera non sfugge alle influenze ormai dominanti nel mondo delle larghe formazioni jazzistiche contemporanee. I riferimenti sono a Gil Evans filtrati dalla sensibilità tutta femminile di Maria Schneider (che a sua volta è stata debitamente influenzata anche da Bob Brookmeyer). Non manca una spruzzatina di musica mitteleuropea, certamente portata dal direttore tedesco David ...

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Erika Dagnino Quartet: Signs

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 24, 2013

Italian poet Erika Dagnino runs a transatlantic- bilingual career. In Europe she works with avant-garde and free jazz musicians as Italian violinist stefano Pastor}] and English saxophonist {{George Haslam. In the States she recorded with avant-garde composer and pianist Chris Brown and leads her own New-York based free jazz quartet comprised of reed player Ras Moshe, ...

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Geri Allen: Grand River Crossings

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by AAJ Italy Staff
September 24, 2013

Dopo la ricca produzione artistica dei decenni ottanta/novanta e la pausa di riflessione di quello successivo, Geri Allen è tornata a occupare il centro della scena pianistica afroamericana con album magistrali come Flying Toward the Sound (Motéma, 2010), prestigiose collaborazioni (i due album insieme al Trio 3 di Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman e Andrew Cyrille per ...

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Ray Mantilla: The Connection

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 24, 2013

In primo piano su The Connection troviamo il vibrante latin jazz che Ray Mantilla pratica con successo sin dagli anni '50. La formula è quella consolidata, ma grazie a Mantilla è possibile coglierne le radici più profonde. Significativa è in tal senso la superba traccia sette per sole percussioni, dove il virtuosismo del leader intreccia i ...