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Fay Claassen: Sing!

Read "Sing!" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Dutch singer Fay Claassen doesn't necessarily push beyond the musical house, but she does occasionally rearrange the furniture. Her surveys of the Chet Baker catalog Two Portraits of Chet Baker (Jazz'n Pulz, 2006) revealed an abiding respect for the jazz canon, while also giving hint to a playful and creative attitude toward the music. This is ...

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Fay Claassen with WDR Big Band Cologne: Sing!

Read "Sing!" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Internationally recognized Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany and Berlin's Rundfunk Orchester, for her sixth album as leader with Sing!. Paying tribute to iconic female vocalists, the repertoire contains songs associated with jazz divas from Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington to singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell ...

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Eric Vloeimans: Heavens Above!

Read "Heavens Above!" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


"La musica, per me, è un'interezza olistica e non una serie di diversi stili. E' come un universo in cui tutto è collegato dal filo della propria immaginazione. Le possibilità sono illimitate". Questo l'incipit delle note di copertina del CD. Come dire: puristi, state alla larga. Non aspettatevi un genere specifico, uno stile specifico. Non sorprendetevi ...

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Harry Allen: New York State of Mind

Read "New York State of Mind" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nel secondo lavoro per l'etichetta Challenge, Harry Allen conferma i membri del suo quintetto con la sola esclusione del chitarrista Joe Cohn sostituito da Rossano Sportiello al pianoforte. Quest'ultimo s'è stabilito che da qualche anno a New York ed è molto apprezzato per la padronanza dei modelli stilistici tradizionali. Il tema di questo lavoro è New ...

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David Liebman: Lieb Plays Weill

Read "Lieb Plays Weill" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Artista di sensibilità ed intelligenza fuori dal comune, Dave Liebman ha da tempo raggiunto un'impressionante maturità come interprete: la sua rilettura di talune opere di Alec Wilder, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sidney Bechet John Coltrane, nonché una vasta serie di collaborazioni e progetti, lo raffigurano come uno spirito libero, insofferente alla routine e, dunque, ancora capace ...

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Mark Lambert: Under My Skin

Read "Under My Skin" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Revisiting classic standards is always somewhat risqué--a challenge, to say the least. Where does the balance between the familiar and the overlooked lie when it comes to repertoire? And how much further can the envelope be pushed without the music being absolutely boorish and unrecognizable? Mark Lambert answers both these questions in spectacular fashion in his ...

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Joris Teepe Big Band: We Take No Prisoners

Read "We Take No Prisoners" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il bassista olandese Joris Teepe vive a New York dal 1992 e s'è da tempo conquistato una posizione di prestigio per le sue doti di strumentista, compositore, produttore, insegnante e leader. Ha già inciso otto dischi a suo nome e collaborato con grandi esponenti del jazz statunitense: da Benny Golson a Tom Harrell, da Randy Brecker ...

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Lisbeth Quartet: Grow

Read "Grow" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Leader di questo Lisbeth Quartet è la ventunenne Charlotte Greve, allieva di Dick Oatts e Loren Stillman. La musica proposta ricalca tutto l'entusiasmo ed il vigore della giovane formazione, ma difetta di originalità. È un gruppo già molto coeso e promettente, che data la giovane età dei componenti non possiede lo spessore dei grandi musicisti per ...

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Harry Allen: New York State of Mind

Read "New York State of Mind" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The big, fat, warm and tender tone of Harry Allen's tenor saxophone is impossible to miss. There is no one who sounds quite like him, and that is probably because no other saxophonist has embraced the tenor horn in a similar way. No one since Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster has mined the wealth of that ...

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Harry Allen: New York State of Mind

Read "New York State of Mind" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


New York City has been the setting of numerous television series and movies. It has also inspired many songs. Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen captures some of that essence with New York State of Mind, named for pop singer Billy Joel's composition. Allen, 43, was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in both Los Angeles, ...


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