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Giulia Valle Group: Danza Imprevista
by AAJ Italy Staff
Secondo disco a nome della contrabbassista catalana Giulia Valle, alla testa di un agguerrito quintetto di musicisti spagnoli. Il lavoro si inserisce molto originalmente in uno spazio intermedio tra un jazz moderno molto dinamico e certe forme di avanguardia sperimentale statunitense, rimanendo sempre molto fruibile senza però mostrare un solo momento prevedibile.Va detto che ...
Jordi Rossy Trio: Wicca
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non si tratta di omonimia. Il pianista Jordi Rossy che troviamo alla testa di questo trio è proprio quel Jordi Rossy, ovvero il batterista del trio di Brad Mehldau. Complimenti vivissimi a Rossy, sinceri e dovuti, per la perizia che lo spagnolo mostra su entrambi gli strumenti. E però le nostre felicitazioni si fermano qui. Perchè ...
Jason Rigby: The Sage
by Terrell Kent Holmes
With The Sage, Jason Rigby has composed an album that’s thought-provoking without being pretentious, accessible without being insubstantial. Rigby is a fine saxophonist who builds coherent ideas gradually without over-emoting, the sign of someone in complete control of his craft. The fluid themes and textures of “Magenta” recall an Ornette Coleman-type of ...
Pete Robbins: Do The Hate Laugh Shimmy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prendete undici musicisti dell’area newyorchese suddivisi tra qualche fuoriclasse (Ben Monder, Dan Weiss, Craig Taborn) e giovani speranze, combinateli più o meno casualmente lungo dieci tracce di media lunghezza e avrete una fotografia piuttosto nitida, una sorta di brochure illustrata di ciò che sta succedendo, musicalmente parlando, da quelle parti del mondo. Nonostante la presenza fissa ...
Aaron Irwin: Blood and Thunder
by Dan McClenaghan
Blood and Thunder sounds like a title that Bob Dylan would give to one of his albums--a mixture of Blood on the Tracks (Columbia Records, 1975) and “Thunder on the Mountain," the opening cut on Modern Times (Columbia Records, 2006). But alto saxophonist Aaron Irwin--thirty years old, bespectacled and white shirt-and-tied in the mode of early ...
Gerald Cleaver: Gerald Cleaver's Detroit
by AAJ Italy Staff
Benchè il suo nome sia associato all’avanguardia statunitense, Gerald Cleaver ha realizzato il disco più bello di mainstream jazz degli ultimi anni. Già collaboratore di Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell e Joe Morris, il batterista di Detroit conferma con il suo secondo CD per la Fresh Sound le eccellenti doti di strumentista e compositore. Rispetto alle forme ...
Kevin Brow: Koptor
by Troy Collins
Koptor is the debut recording of Canadian-born, Copenhagen-based drummer Kevin Brow. Accompanied by a group of like-minded peers, including multi-reedist Rob Mosher, pianist Jacob Sacks and ubiquitous bassist Eivind Opsvik, Brow leads his quartet through a program of modern jazz originals that ripple with emotion. Brow's nuanced writing expands in scope beyond conventional time ...
Jostein Gulbrandsen: Twelve
by Elliott Simon
While guitarist Jostein Gulbrandsen may hail from Norway, he and his quartet appear very much at home in this debut that has a decided downtown edge. At the heart of Twelve is a contorted bluesy post-bop that makes wonderful use of complex rhythms and slicing tenor sax courtesy of Jon Irabagon. Both Gulbrandsen and Irabagon possess ...
Kevin Brow: Koptor
by Mark F. Turner
Koptor by Canadian drummer Kevin Brow is in some ways similar to film noir-- at times overcast, others times bursts of vividness, flowing in music that is stylistically intriguing. But there is plenty of substance here with clarity and definition, imprinting music that incorporates detailed compositions and free invention. Convincingly hip, thoughtfully astute, ...
Ambrose Akinmusire: Prelude: to Cora
by Mark F. Turner
New visions and colorful dreams emanate from the horn and pen of trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. You would expect the first place winner of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition to come out with his horn a-blazing, voraciously showing his chops. While he does have the honored award and sharpened abilities, his debut recording, Prelude: ...
