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Raoul Björkenheim - Bill Laswell - Morgan Ågren: Blixt
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista Raoul Björkenheim è ingiustamente sottovalutato e la casa discografica Cuneiform sta facendo di tutto per dargli quella visibilità che merita da oltre vent'anni. Questo ottimo Blixt potrebbe essere la giusta occasione per farlo entrare definitivamente nel firmamento dei migliori interpreti dello strumento e consacrarlo come punto di riferimento nel panorama piuttosto ristretto dei chitarristi ...
The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is The Beautiful?
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Poetry has always been the libretto of jazz music. Even before epic works of the late Gil Scott Heron like “H2O Gate Blues" or “Winter in America" (which inspired the nations of rap and hip-hop), there was Langston Hughes with bassist Charles Mingus on Weary Blues (Verve, 1958), the great Amiri Baraka, and A.B. Spellman. Then ...
Michael Gibbs and the NDR Bigband: Back in the Days
by John Kelman
Michael Gibbs and the NDR BigbandBack in the DaysCuneiform Records2012Jazz may be filled with reharmonizations, reinventions and reimaginings of songs from across its entire history; few artists have, however, made their names solely as composers and arrangers. Relative youngsters like Maria Schneider, Vince Mendoza and Darcy James Argue ...
Raoul Bjorkenheim / Bill Laswel / Morgen Agren: BLIXT
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Few musicians are more aware that music has no borders, and--more than anything else--that the word “genre" is anathema, than Bill Laswell. The bassist has been uncompromising in this regard throughout his career and was not about to be undone for this musical adventure. Consequently, on the brilliantly crafted BLIXT, Laswell has partnered with an old ...
São Paulo Underground: Três Cabenças Loucuras
by Raul d'Gama Rose
As the great tradition of Brazilian music swept down in all its glory from the sertão, into the river basins, and gradually to the urban areas of Rio and São Paulo, several mavericks remained in the vanguard, continuing to cross-pollinate the music as it gathered in strength and momentum. Among the first of these was Hermeto ...
Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It does not behoove to fall for the apparent flippancy of Dead Cat's Bounce. The name of the ensemble is merely an ironic take on the state of the union; and on a larger canvas it casts aspersions on the relevance of capitalism without the folk tradition. Even its use of klezmer music and a mash ...
Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade: Brain Dance
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The energy of bassist Carlo De Rosa's Brain Dance is palpable. Musically, it is a close equivalent of an elastic band held extremely taut and then twanged continuously until the kinetic energy continues to do what the fingers once did. However, De Rosa's fingers continue to do what invisible fingers once did to the music as ...
Thelonious Monk Redux
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Perhaps there are no better contemporary homages to pianist and composer Thelonious Monk than the ones re-imagined by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd, as well as by pianist Misha Mengelberg. But the greatest of all is the short one by composer and pianist Heiner Stadler. That seminal album--Tribute to Bird and Monk (Tomato, ...
The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?
by AAJ Italy Staff
La figura di Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), poeta,autore di novelle e disegnatore americano, ha fornito l'ispirazione e gli spunti per What Is the Beautiful?. Il disco è stato scritto e concepito dal quintetto di Hollenbeck in occasione delle celebrazioni dei cento anni dalla nascita di questo particolarissimo esponente della cultura statunitense, organizzate dall'Università di Rochester nel settembre ...
Joel Harrison - Lorenzo Feliciati: Holy Abyss
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa musica è dolente e luminosa allo stesso tempo ed è molto bene rappresentata dal titolo dell'album, che fa riferimento ai 'sacri abissi.' Infatti la luminescenza scura di questo ottimo lavoro, è proprio quella tipica che si trova sott'acqua, dove la luce arriva filtrata e diminuita dai sovrastanti metri d'acqua limacciosa. E la sacralità è ovviamente ...
