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Evolution

Label: Unicorn Digital
Released: 2008

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A scanso di ogni equivoco: non rientro in quella schiera di persone che scambiano l'inaccessibilità o noiosità di una musica con qualità, o che ritengono che il successo di pubblico debba per forza essere sinonimo di compromesso sul piano qualitativo. Ritengo anzi che il successo di pubblico non sia mai frutto del caso, e nemmeno univocamente ...

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Amos Hoffman: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
July 31, 2008

The oud is the principal instrument in Middle Eastern music: it's an ancient, fretless, short-necked lute with five pairs of strings and a bass string. On Evolution, his third CD as leader, Amos Hoffman plays the oud he made himself, and offers a fascinating combination of Middle Eastern music and jazz. The ...

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Amos Hoffman: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 12, 2008

This is the second recording by Israeli guitarist Amos Hoffman that features him as an oud player, following Na'ama (Magda, 2006). Hoffman, who began playing the guitar when he was six years old and the oud a few years later, studied with Lebanese oud and nay player Bassam Saba, while he was living in New York.

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Evolution

By Tommy Smith

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Woodstock; Easter Island; Lisbon Earthquake; Siege of Leningrad; Sputnick's Tale; On the Way to Barnard's Star.

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Tommy Smith: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 1, 2005

A member of vibraphonist Joe Locke's widely-acclaimed Four Walls of Freedom, Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith is finally beginning to crack a broader international market. The surprise is that it's taken this long. Since returning home from the States in the late '80s, Smith has become something of a cottage industry in the UK, creating the Scottish ...

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Evolution

By Stefon Harris

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Nothing Personal; For Him, For Her; Until; Red-Bone, Netti-Bone; A Touch of Grace; Summertime; Blackout; The Lost Ones; King Tut's Strut' Message to Mankind; Montara.

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Stefon Harris & Blackout: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli

by Eric J. Iannelli
April 21, 2004

It takes no time at all to get into Evolution , Stefon Harris’ fifth album for Blue Note, the young vibraphonist’s fourth as leader and his first with his new band. Immediately the music breaks into a sprint. And its appeal is equally as instantaneous. There is no acclimation period, no finger-drumming developmental warm-up, no amusing ...

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Stefon Harris & Blackout: Evolution

by John Kelman
April 15, 2004

Vibraphonist Stefon Harris first came to attention on releases by trombonist Steve Turre and, most notably, with eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter's groove-happy Pound for Pound band. Since that time, with an approach that could perhaps be accused of sometimes being a little too cerebral and not visceral enough, Harris has released three fine recordings as a ...

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