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Un'urgenza interiore: intervista ad Alessandro Lanzoni

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 2, 2013

Il suo amore per il jazz è nato in tenera età, spinto da un'attrazione naturale che oggi è per lui necessità espressiva. Con Dark Flavour il giovane pianista Alessandro Lanzoni fa un passo decisivo nel suo breve, ma già considerevole d'attenzione, percorso artistico, che lo ha visto ben figurare in diversi contesti, come nel recente Replay ...

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Peter Hook: Tragic Joy, Electrified Order

by Nenad Georgievski
April 30, 2013

Joy Division existed for three and a half years before it reached its tragic end in 1980, but its musical legacy still resonates strongly today. Within that limited period, four young lads from Manchester changed the direction of music--first, by pioneering what is now called post-punk, and inspiring countless other artists along the way, most notably ...

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Kendrick Scott: Conviction of a Jazz Oracle

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
April 29, 2013

Kendrick Scott, considered by many as one of the most gifted drummers of his generation and trusted on stage by peers such as trumpeter Terence Blanchard, is ready to take the spotlight as a bandleader once more with his third studio project. This is a record about a true desire to act as an instrument of ...

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Giovanni Guidi Trio: City of Broken Dreams

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2013

Giovanni Guidi è un musicista in continua crescita. È una sensazione che si avverte netta, disco dopo disco, anche perché combina uno spiccato senso autocritico con una forte voglia di progredire. Questa sorta di tensione artistica lo ha portato a raggiungere, in breve tempo, traguardi importanti, come le incisioni per la ECM con Enrico Rava, a ...

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Interview: Sonny Rollins

April 26, 2013

I have two articles in today's Wall Street Journal—a “House Call" column for the Mansion section on Sonny Rollins (link soon) and an “Anatomy of a Song" column for the Arena section on the Four Tops' Reach Out I'll Be There (go here). Sonny first. Two weeks ago Sonny invited me to up to his house ...

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Jazz Face: All Smiles from Francisco Mela

April 26, 2013

Hang out with drummer Francisco Mela for even a few minutes, and your mood will brighten. You can't help but smile. Watch him perform for a few minutes, and you will understand the inner joy that music brings to those who live with in 24/7. And, at least for the duration of that drum solo, that ...

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Nuovi viaggi, vecchi compagni di strada: intervista a Larry Ochs

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 24, 2013

In questi giorni è in Italia per un mini-tour con il fedelissimo Don Robinson. Un nuovo viaggio con un vecchio compagno di strada. D'altronde, di viaggi e di vecchi compagni di strada, Larry Ochs se ne intende. Da trentacinque anni è in sella al Rova, la sua creatura più celebre e celebrata; e da almeno altrettanti ...

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Terri Lyne Carrington: The Long Road

by R.J. DeLuke
April 22, 2013

"Better Git It in Your Soul," a perspicacious jazz man once communicated in a song title more than half a century ago. Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington wasn't even born yet, but she sure did have it in her soul upon arrival. Long before she was even aware of bassist Charles Mingus, the author of those words, ...

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STLJN Interview: Anat Cohen

April 17, 2013

The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival began as primarily an educational event for local student jazz bands, and although the festival has been booking headlining talent for several years now, the professionals performing at the GSLJF still are involved in putting on workshops and adjudications for the students. As you'd expect, the questions they get from ...

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I mondi sonori di Fulvio Sigurtà

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 15, 2013

Quando a gennaio del 2012 è stato eletto “Miglior Nuovo Talento 2011" dal Top Jazz della rivista Musica Jazz, non tutti conoscevano bene Fulvio Sigurtà. Se c'è infatti a volte un po' di pigrizia nell'estendere il proprio sguardo oltre i confini locali, sia quelli geografici che quelli stilistici, si può probabilmente imputare a essa il tardivo ...