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Brown Vs Brown: Odds and Unevens
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quattro musicisti di Amsterdam approdano alla Cuneiform Records, che immediatamente si rivela “casa naturale" della band. Dai primissimi secondi intuiamo che ascolteremo un gruppo di musicisti estremamente affiatato cercare attraverso l'improvvisazione controllata la sintesi delle proprie idee musicali. Nelle atmosfere nebbiose e stratificate di “Whirpool" sono presenti le derive della musica jazz, o le derive della ...
Ideal Bread: Transmit: Vol. 2 of The Music of Steve Lacy
by Troy Collins
Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton graduated from pupil to sideman following his studies with Steve Lacy at the New England Conservatory, performing with the late soprano saxophone legend and serving as his copyist. After Lacy's passing in 2004, Sinton founded Ideal Bread as a repertory group in his honor, dedicated to performing his former teacher's rarely covered ...
The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace: Royal Toast
by Troy Collins
The humorously titled Royal Toast is the fifth album from the Claudia Quintet, percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck's longstanding five-piece that is--in the eternal words of Duke Ellington--a band “beyond category." Eradicating the tenuous boundary lines between idioms, Hollenbeck and company draw on ethnic traditions, free jazz, contemporary composition and progressive rock in their multifaceted explorations.
New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff
by Jerry D'Souza
The New York Art Quartet was a short-lived group. Its first recording was the eponymous New York Art Quartet (ESP Disk, 1964), with the original line-up of alto saxophonist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Lewis Worrell and drummer Milford Grave. It was a highly intense band that parlayed free jazz into stunning directions. Worrell left ...
New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff
by Troy Collins
Despite their involvement in the seminal 1964 October Revolution in Jazz concert series and a few high profile gigs in Europe the following year, the short-lived New York Art Quartet remains under-sung but legendary, with only two official studio recordings to its name--the self-titled 1964 ESP debut and Mohawk (Fontana, 1965). For years the only other ...
Ergo: Multitude, Solitude
by Elliott Simon
During the past two decades, electronic music has solidified its initial uneasy alliance with acoustic jazz. Newer releases such as Ergo's Multitude, Solitude are able to get past that original awkward balance and meld electronics with jazz improvisation and instrumental technique. The result is a trio that interacts like one but also accesses the broader sound ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown: Varmint
by AAJ Italy Staff
Andrew Hill e l'Eric Dolphy di Out Lunch sono i poli d'attrazione di questo quintetto chicagoano, che cavalca l'onda della sperimentazione degli anni '60. Alla base c'è il tentativo di evitare i clichè del mainstream, finendo però con il riproporre quelli dell'estetica presa a modello. Varmint rappresenta un disco emblematico per riassumere pregi e difetti del ...
Ergo: Multitude, Solitude
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell'immagine in bianco e nero che troviamo stampata sotto al contenitore plastico del CD, campeggia una cuffia appoggiata sopra al rullante di una batteria. Un segnale preciso di come si debba entrare in questo universo musicale in punta di piedi e soprattutto in silenzio. Il trio denominato 'Ergo' parte già con una formazione inconsueta: trombone, tastiere ...
Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown: Varmint
by Nic Jones
Varmint is the second release from vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown, following its self-titled 2008 debut on 482 Music. It's clear, from this program, that Rolldown is not content to stay in one place; no mean feat, considering the extent to which this music pays homage to Blue Note's documentation of artists like Andrew Hill and Sam ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown: Varmint
by Jerry D'Souza
Vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz brings a wide ranging sensibility to his compositions. He has a strong feel for mainstream jazz that he pursues and invigorates with a range of free idioms. The music thrives and blossoms, not only in the potency of the mix, but also in its invention and surprise. His band mates enrich the tunes ...
