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I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Enrico Zanisi

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Enrico Zanisi" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

01. Vijay Iyer -Mutations (ECM -2014). Disco molto bello e interessante che vede uno dei miei pianisti preferiti alle prese con un quartetto d'archi (da lui stesso arrangiato) con la sapiente aggiunta di un po' di elettronica in alcuni brani. 02. Claude Debussy -Jeux, Images, Musiques pour Le Roi Lear. City of ...

Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson: Meltframe

Read "Meltframe" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Il primo disco di Mary Halvorson in solo sancisce la piena maturità acquisita dalla chitarrista bostoniana. Un'artista che folgora immediatamente oppure insospettisce, che appare come un'apprendista sempre in fase di studio oppure come una razionale dispensatrice di finezze da tempo metabolizzate. Fin dalle prime sortite in trio, o in gruppi più ...

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Article: Live Review

Saalfelden 2015

Read "Saalfelden 2015" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Memorabile edizione la trentaseiesima del Saalfelden Jazz Festival. Forse il caldo più consono ai mari del sud che ad una località alpina ha sciolto anche gli animi più rigidi, ha favorito la libera circolazione delle idee, ha creato un clima di condivisione e stimolo artistico. Forse gli dei della musica hanno soffiato un vento benevolo sulle ...

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Mary Halvorson: Meltframe

Read "Meltframe" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

In a quietly forceful way, guitarist Mary Halvorson has cemented her place among the company of modern-day counterparts such as Eivind Aarset, Nels Cline and Terje Rypdal. The Brooklyn based composer/musician has performed with the likes of Anthony Braxton (both sharing credentials at Wesleyan University), cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum and the avant-garde group Trevor Dunn's ...

Article: Album Review

Melissa Stylianou: No Regrets

Read "No Regrets" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Canadese di nascita e formazione, la cantante Melissa Stylianou ormai da un decennio vive a New York, dove s'è fatta conoscere e apprezzare per le pregevoli collaborazioni (Ben Monder, Chris Lightcap, Matt Wilson, Rodney Green) ed i concerti in prestigiosi club come il Blue Note, l'Iridium, il Jazz Standard o il Birdland. Se nei quattro ...

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Article: Album Review

Lena Hovanesian: irwinorange

Read "irwinorange" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

In assigning colors to a musician's “sound," does alto saxophonist Lena Hovanesian blow orange? Maybe. On her debut CD, irwinorange, the title taken from the 2014 Franklin Evans' painting of the same name, Hovanesian's alto has a citrus-y tang, as she explores, sonically, her love of abstract art and natural beauty of Hawaii and her native ...

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Article: Album Review

Max Johnson, Kirk Knuffke, Ziv Ravitz: Something Familiar

Read "Something Familiar" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

New York native Max Johnson does not appear to require sleep. The bassist/composer, whose career spans the wide terrain from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Lollapalooza to Anthony Braxton consistently delivers fresh, adventurous, high-quality music against an ambitious output. With his now-regular working trio of Kirk Knuffke on cornet and drummer Ziv Ravitz, the group has released ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Read "Epicenter" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini

Ha ancora senso parlare di mainstream? Esiste un jazz che guarda al futuro riuscendo allo stesso tempo ad essere immediatamente riconoscibile e masticabile anche da chi di jazz poco, o niente, ne capisce? Domande oziose soltanto all'apparenza. Che nel loro studiato candore squarciano il velo di una dicotomia che a uno sguardo distratto può apparire insanabile: ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Read "Epicenter" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Conceived as a continuous seven-part extended work for his band, Bigmouth, the first seven tracks on Chris Lightcap's Epicenter are as remarkable for their diversity as they are for the ways in which they're tied together. The unifying theme here is “New York: Lost and Found," and the music could indeed work as a sort of ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Read "Epicenter" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman

The closing track of bassist Chris Lightcap's muscular and vibrant Epicenter is a very intense and almost brutal version of Lou Reed's “All Tomorrow's Parties" from the 1967 release Velvet Underground & Nico. This tune, which is among Reed's most highly crafted works and which captures the essence of both the times and its subculture, is ...


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