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Identical Sunsets
By Paul Dunmall
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2010
Track listing: Identical Sunsets; Living Proof; Better Get Another Lighthouse; Out of Sight.
Lee Konitz - Chris Cheek - Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil II
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra le numerose qualità di Lee Konitz c'è sicuramente la curiosità, che nei suoi sessantacinque anni di carriera ha messo a disposizione di progetti molto diversi tra loro. E d'altra parte il suo vecchio capolavoro Subconscious Lee esprimeva già una vivida intelligenza jazzistica. Qui lo ascoltiamo coinvolto in un progetto del tutto singolare, in cui l'incontro ...
Marion Brown: Why Not?
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per una singolare fatalità, di quelle che squarciano il velo dei pensieri, mi è capitato di leggere la notizia della scomparsa di Marion Brown mentre mi accingevo a scrivere della prima ristampa ufficiale di Why Not?, il secondo dei due Esp a nome del sassofonista di Atlanta. Lui, che in punta di piedi ha attraversato la ...
Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa ristampa di uno dei due LP incisi dal contraltista della Louisiana per la mitica ESP ci ripropone un free jazz d'annata, che dopo 44 anni non risulta per nulla invecchiato, capace tuttora di comunicare convinzione, urgenza espressiva, idee in quantità ed anche un buon livello tecnico. Staying on the Watch non è certo celebrato come ...
Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo album del chitarrista Michael Gregory Jackson fu registrato nel 1976, un peridodo particolarmente intenso per il giovane musicista, nato nel 1953 nel Connecticut. Jackson sembrava essere il nuovo eroe della chitarra jazz, soprattutto per la sua partecipazione al disco Holding Together di Oliver Lake, oltre che per la sua presenza nella bella serie dal vivo ...
Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
by Jerry D'Souza
The sixties were a time of turmoil and invention. Jazz was cast into several shapes by musicians who were willing to take chances, were not afraid to go against the grain, and believed in their vision to fathom and articulate new territory. Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons was among those who added to lore. He could fathom ...
Paul Dunmall: Identical Sunsets
by Raul d'Gama Rose
If history is to be served properly, saxophonist Paul Dunmall's Identical Sunsets reaches, with much nervous energy, that part of the sonic universe that John Coltrane reached in the last months of his playing career. In the stellar regions of that universe, the heart--and, therefore, Dunmall's instrument of choice (in this case, the tenor saxophone)--does not ...
Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Michael Gregory is the quintessential modern troubadour. He may not sing in a Romance language, but he turns his instruments of choice--guitar and voice--into a powerful language that enables him to recreate the sensuous, reverential and spiritual literature that, in turn, enormously enhances his songbook. Gregory turns on the charm on Clarity, a short, but memorable ...
Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons embraces music with his whole body, soul, mind and spirit; that much is clear from Staying on the Watch, recorded in August 1966 and reissued by ESP-Disk in 2010. Not everything that he did got its due: when Simmons came on the scene, he remained too close to Charlie Parker. When he ...
Lee Konitz / Chris Cheek / Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil II
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The wondrous nature of Jugendstil II is ensconced in the breathtaking improvisations of alto saxophone giant Lee Konitz, the way they intersect with the ideas of brilliant young tenor saxophonist Chris Cheek, and the effect they have on the birth of new compositions by virtuoso bassist Stéphane Furic Leibovici. The miraculous glue that holds it all ...
