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Simon Jermyn: Trot A Mouse

Read "Trot A Mouse" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


An unusual but satisfying release, Trot A Mouse debuts the diverse ideas of electric bassist/composer, Simon Jermyn. Equally adept on guitar and bass, the Irish native is classically trained and lives in Dublin, Ireland. Travels have taken him to the Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship, The Hague, where he earned a Masters Degree ...

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Jeremy Udden: Plainville

Read "Plainville" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ecco una di quelle sorprese che ogni tanto arrivano da casa Fresh Sound New Talent, etichetta catalana che cerca di valorizzare giovani talenti o musicisti misconosciuti, essenzialmente nell'ambito di un mainstream fresco e moderno. Talvolta si esce però dal seminato ed è proprio allora che spuntano all'improvviso proposte veramente interessanti ad alto tasso di originalità. Come ...

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Jeremy Udden: Plainville

Read "Plainville" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Saxophonist Jeremy Udden comes armed with heavyweight credentials. He's an alumnus of Russ Gershon's phenomenal Either/Orchestra--his playing among the high points of that ensemble's epochal Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis (Buda Musique, 2005), a record replete with high points.On this, his second album as a leader, Udden heads far from the Ethiopian sounds of ...

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Jeremy Udden: Plainville

Read "Plainville" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Saxophonist Jeremy Udden's sophomore release is a compassionate and happy reflection on his home town of Plainville, in rural southern Massachusetts, and his early and formative musical influences as a boy who was interested in all kinds of music-- indie-rock, alt-country, folk and, later on, jazz. Though this is an emotional journey, arranged in a highly ...

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Vinnie Sperrazza: Peak Inn

Read "Peak Inn" reviewed by Clifford Allen


The piano trio is a medium that became immensely popular with Bill Evans' meteoric rise on the international scene in the '50s and has remained an astonishingly equilateral creative outlet for an extraordinary array of harmonic and rhythmic complexity. However, there aren't a lot of groups taking the chances available to them, instead mining the standard ...

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Alon Farber Hagiga Sextet: Optimistic View

Read "Optimistic View" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Secondo CD per l'Hagiga Sextet, messo in piedi nel 2001 dal sassofonista e compositore Alon Farber e dal batterista Dani Benedikt. Il gruppo è interamente israeliano, ed in Israele ha realizzato questo lavoro, che risente solo in parte delle influenze musicali mediorientali e si ispira più generalmente al jazz contemporaneo. La musica espressa si nutre di ...

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Jason Rigby: The Sage

Read "The Sage" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The sophomore release of New York-based saxophonist/composer Jason Rigby features him as a unique new voice that deserves wider attention. His deep, full-bodied tenor sound and his inside-outside jazz vocabulary reference sax greats such as John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, while his elastic sense of time sounds closer to the fluid playfulness of Ornette Coleman. His ...

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Jeremy Udden: Plainville

Read "Plainville" reviewed by Troy Collins


Former Either/Orchestra saxophonist Jeremy Udden's sophomore album, Plainville is dedicated to his rural Massachusetts hometown of the same name. Drawing on some of his earliest musical inspirations, this varied session integrates alt-country, folk, and rock influences into a jazz context. Continuing a conceptual thread begun on his debut, Torchsongs (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006) this record ...

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Jesse Stacken Trio: That That

Read "That That" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nato e cresciuto in Minnesota, Jesse Stacken si è trasferito a New York nel 2002 dove ha collaborato, tra gli altri, con Michael Blake, Peter Van Huffel e Donny McCaslin. Costituitosi nel 2005, il Jesse Stacken Trio debutta con questo That That per l'etichetta Fresh Sound New Talent. Piano trio di grande energia e raffinatezza costituito ...

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Jason Rigby: The Sage

Read "The Sage" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Jason Rigby is a bold and adventurous composer and saxophonist. He blends styles artfully and gives them a tangent and direction that are out of the ordinary and. in doing so, he brings in a perspective that is as exciting as it is satisfying. Rigby made his debut as a leader with Translucent Space ...


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