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Mikkel Ploug Group Featuring Mark Turner: Mikkel Ploug Group

Read "Mikkel Ploug Group" reviewed by Elliott Simon


With recent appearances at the North Sea Jazz Festival and other more intimate venues, guitarist Mikkel Ploug's star has been ascending--not only in his native Denmark, but also in various overlapping international jazz circles. Last year, he received his BTA with a two-month residency in New York City, and in the process made some interesting musical ...

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Owen Howard: Time Cycles

Read "Time Cycles" reviewed by Martin Gladu


Rhythm is all, goes one jazz adage. But when drummer/composer/leaders abuse their privilege, their projects often fall short by grabbing knowing listeners with overly technical and acrobatic demonstrations of mere rhythmic savoir faire. When these performances are thoughtfully conceived and rendered with maturity, such recordings have the potential of winning over audiences. In Owen Howard, the ...

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Samo Salamon NYC Quintet: Government Cheese

Read "Government Cheese" reviewed by John Kelman


It's may be possible to define an artist by the company he/she keeps, but the harsher economics of the 21st Century jazz world make it an axiom that doesn't always hold true. It's not difficult to enlist big-name artists on a recording if one has the cash. Still, it's a positive sign when first encounters turn ...

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David Smith Quintet: Circumstance

Read "Circumstance" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


È questo un ottimo disco, che ben rappresenta la brillante cifra espressiva di David Smith, emergente trombettista della scena jazz canadese. Il suo è un fraseggio spezzato e frastagliato al servizio di una sonorità calda e rotonda. Con un solismo magnificamente in equilibrio tra tradizione e contemporaneità, oscillante tra la nervosa spigolosità del linguaggio post-boppistico e ...

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Bill Carrothers: Shine Ball

Read "Shine Ball" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il CD targato Fresh Sound New Talent che non ti aspetti. L'etichetta spagnola ci aveva abituato a produzioni aperte ai linguaggi contemporanei, ma tutto sommato solidamente inserite nella tradizione. Shine Ball è invece un album interamente costituito da improvvisazioni estemporanee. Nulla di scritto, la musica che si sviluppa interamente nel momento. E quindi, ampio spazio ad ...

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Samo Salamon Quartet: Two Hours

Read "Two Hours" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Strano album questo dello sloveno Samo Salamon, sicuramente uno dei chitarristi più interessanti delle ultime generazioni. Si apre magnificamente con una bella melodia in dieci, prosegue con un omaggio a Steve Lacy decisamente fuori dagli schemi, e poi incappa in un passo falso, in una melodia piuttosto banale, che chi vi scrive trova, alla luce dei ...

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Bruce Arkin: Wake Up !

Read "Wake Up !" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nei consueti ringraziamenti presenti nelle note di copertina Bruce Arkin cita, tra gli altri, Tom Waits e Ornette Coleman, Frank Zappa e John Coltrane, Radiohead e Stravinskj. Potremmo dire che il sassofonista diplomato alla Berklee di Boston, ma da anni residente a Barcellona, incarni il prototipo più diffuso di jazzista delle nuove generazioni. Un musicista, cioè, ...

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Aaron Irwin Group: Into The Light

Read "Into The Light" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Jordi Pujol, who manages FSNT, has a real knack for finding talented players and giving them a chance to record. Into The Light only further demonstrates his sensibilities. Still shy of thirty, Aaron Irwin has very mature musical instincts and an eclectic taste, with playing that is rhythmically quite free and unpredictable and compositions with a ...

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Two Hours

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Empty Heart; One For Steve Lacy; A Melody For Her; Does David Know He's Not Brown?; Where's The Bill; Silence of the Poets; Mind Breezer; Blink; The Lonely Tune; Coffee With A Girl.

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Casually Introducing Walter Smith III

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Cyclic Episode; Kate Song; Tail Of Benin; Benny


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