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Umbria Jazz Winter 2014

Read "Umbria Jazz Winter 2014" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Umbria Jazz Winter 22 Orvieto -27.12.2014-01.01.2015 “Fabrizio Bosso, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu... Anat Cohen, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano... vi aspettano a Orvieto per Umbria Jazz Winter." Più o meno di questo tenore era lo spot pubblicitario trasmesso per tutto dicembre sulle stazioni radio della RAI, uno dei media partner del festival; i ...

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Article: Album Review

Jonathan Badger: Verse

Read "Verse" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Baltimore, MD, native Jonathan Badger is a guitarist and technologist who aurally paints a sequence of montages with hornists, vocalists, and strings performers, including Shodekeh who is listed as utilizing a human beat box. It's a diverse electro-acoustic brew via an off the wall melding of avant-garde expressionism, ambient electronica and progressive rock amid slight inferences ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Brad Myers

Read "Take Five with Brad Myers" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Brad Myers: Brad Myers has spent his life in the pursuit of making music that is tasteful and driven by a deep connection to the soul, regardless of stylish trends or prognosis for financial success. Currently residing in Cincinnati, Ohio, he is an ever evolving improvising musician who has played the guitar since he ...

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Article: Album Review

Re-Evolution Band: The Dark Side of the Wall. 1979-2013

Read "The Dark Side of the Wall. 1979-2013" reviewed by Luigi Sforza


Ci sono dischi che per loro natura richiederebbero un intervento critico d'equipe: un team di specialisti di vari settori musicali in grado di individuarne le caratteristiche e orientarne il senso. Da qualsiasi angolazione si guardi, The Drak Side of the Wall. 1970-2013 è un disco fittamente costruito, linguisticamente asimmetrico, spiazzante come può essere la musica ...

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Article: Album Review

Shawn Maxwell: Shawn Maxwell's Alliance

Read "Shawn Maxwell's Alliance" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Musicista emergente del panorama jazzistico di Chicago, il contraltistaShawn Maxwell ha nel suo spettro espressivo un grande caleidoscopio di idee. Come il suo modello ispiratore (Frank Zappa), egli predilige una pratica musicale aleatoria che ha nell'indeterminatezza dei suoni e delle atmosfere la sua principale cifra distintiva. Questo suo CD per big band presenta una formazione atipica ...

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Roxy By Proxy

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 2014

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Article: Talking 2 Musicians

Jeff Sipe

Read "Jeff Sipe" reviewed by Alan Bryson


Jeff Sipe is a drummer based in Asheville, North Carolina, and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music.  For decades he has been a conspicuous presence on the Southern music scene. He was an original member of the Aquarium Rescue Unit, and the phenomenal trio Hellborg, Lane, Sipe. He's known as Jimmy Herring's go-to ...

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Article: Album Review

Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble: L.U.M.E.

Read "L.U.M.E." reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il termine “lume" in portoghese significa fuoco ma, inteso come acronimo, indica il Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble, una band di 15 elementi guidata dal pianista e compositore Marco Barroso. Nato nel 2006 il L.U.M.E. debutta con quest'album in cui mostra di saper dire qualcosa di personale nel panorama orchestrale contemporaneo. La scena musicale ...

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Article: Album Review

Mats/Morgan: Schack Tati

Read "Schack Tati" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi


Raccontano le cronache che gli svedesi Mats Oberg (tastierista) e Morgan Agren (batterista) suonano insieme dall'età rispettivamente di 10 e 14 anni. Si direbbe un sodalizio di acciaio che si fonda su una fraterna amicizia e su un amore smisurato per Frank Zappa che fu agli inizi degli anni Ottanta anche loro mentore. Fini ...

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News: Recording

Recent Listening In Brief…

Recent Listening In Brief…

Frank Zappa (1940-1993), a gifted musician who dipped his toe into jazz, never demonstrated more than a smidgeon of what he knew about the genre. But he left us with the memorable observation, “Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.” A web search shows that lesser wits have adapted Zappa’s line to all kinds of topics ...


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