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Plays Weather Report

Label: Luminescence Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. Mr. Gone - 9:48; 2. Unknown Soldier - 6:48; 3. Directions - 7:24; 4. Second Sunday in August - 6:25; 5. Tears - (Shorter) - 7:16; 6. Scarlet Woman - 9:02; 7. Non-Stop Home - (Shorter) - 2:37; 8. Sightseeing (Shorter) - 3:48; 9. Plaza Real (Shorter) - 5:09; 10. Dr. Honoris Causa - 5:56; 11. Jungle Book - 6:54; 12. Orange Lady - 4:13. Ove non indicato le composizioni sono di Joe Zawinul.

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The Talking Bass

By Giovanni Maier

Label: Long Song
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Talking Bass; Disk Dosk; Crayon Rouge; Due Cellule; Pamppalune; El Manda; Soft Transitions; Leroy Vinnegar; Wrong Is Wrong.

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Journeys

By Giovanni Maier

Label: Luminescence Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. You Was the First - 5:34; 2. The Other Blues - 5:14; 3. Beijing Radio - 3:39; 4. Balcanic Journey - 7:13; 5. Silk Road - 4:12; 6. Samba Stramba - 4:12; 7. Invocations - 1:50; 8. Scion Pane’ Tlatan - 2:26; 9. Habanera De Aghera - 3:38. Tutte le composizioni sono di Alessandra Franco e Giovanni Maier.

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Giovanni Maier: The Talking Bass

Read "The Talking Bass" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 2, 2010

Students of jazz have long known that the bassist can be the hippest musician on the bandstand, constantly listening, and rarely featured. That's why, when a first class bassist like Giovanni Maier gets a chance to lead and present his compositions, it should be a special event. That is just what The Talking Bass is: a ...

Article: My Playlist

Giovanni Maier

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 26, 2010

01. Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!! (OJC - 1958). 02. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar - 2006). Due album di Ornette molto distanti nel tempo; la “veste" di questi capolavori infatti è piuttosto diversa. Ma lo spirito ed il suono del leader sono rimasti immutati nel tempo. Adoro questa musica! 03. Warne Marsh - ...

Article: Album Review

U.T. Gandhi: Plays Weather Report

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 11, 2010

Erano diversi anni che U.T. Gandhi aveva in programma di mettere su disco la sua personale lettura della musica che lo ha avvicinato al jazz e che ha continuato ad amare forse sopra ogni altra: quella dei Weather Report. Ci riesce solo oggi - dopo aver peraltro già “sfiorato" il medesimo repertorio nel suo gruppo di ...

Article: Album Review

Alessandra Franco - Giovanni Maier: Journeys

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 13, 2010

Si muove originalmente in molte direzioni diverse questo fortunato incontro tra le corde del contrabbasso di Giovanni Maier e la voce dell'eclettica Alessandra Franco, vocalist d'area jazzistica che non disdegna incursioni nella world music (come nel caso del CD dell'Earthbeat Ensemble, Los lugares del sueño). Il lavoro, infatti, esplora - sempre attraverso brani originali e con ...

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Article: Live Review

24 Hours of Umbria Jazz 2010

by Sara Villa
August 3, 2010

Imagine traveling by car for hours in the summer heat of Italy's July 2010. At last it is early evening, and you reach the borders of a breathtaking medieval town. A soft breeze blows around you while you walk through the steep slopes which lead you to the centre. You follow the sounds you so eagerly ...

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