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Lucia Cadotsch: Speak Low II

by Friedrich Kunzmann
On their sophomore effort, the multinational European trio around Swiss vocalist Lucia Cadotsch follows the band's initial instinct of organically dissecting and rearranging old favorites of the respective band members. This time around the trio is expanded by English keyboartdist Kit Downes' occasional organ embellishments and Lucy Railton's additions of odd melodic cello lines to conceptually ...
The Calle Stenman Quintet: Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room

by Chris May
Welcome to the debut album from the self-proclaimed roughest jazz group in Sweden," led by trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Calle Stenman. By rough, Stenman's original Swedish text probably meant something akin to raucous," for there is nothing untutored or blemished about the album, which has been carefully crafted. Four of the tunesthe hard boppish Jazzkaban," post-boppish ...
Gabriele Coen: Incontro con Leonard Bernstein in chiave Jazz

by Paolo Marra
Parlando del padre Leonard Bernstein la figlia Jamie in un occassione disse Ogni anno la sua musica sembra sempre essere migliore, forse il suo momento arriverà, dopo tutto." In effetti la modernità delle composizioni è una delle caratteristiche che hanno reso la musica del grande direttore d'orchestra parte del patrimonio artistico del '900 tanto da risultare ...
Hal Willner's Rock 'n' Rota

by Ludovico Granvassu
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Anyone who has ever been at an all-star event--especially if that was a tribute concert--has learned the importance of Aristotle's maxim the hard way. Maybe the occasion was momentous, the cast probably star-studded, the heart certainly in the right place and the expectations high... however, at ...
Claudia Döffinger: Monochrome

by Gareth Thompson
The turkey trot and tango became so popular by 1914 that the Vatican saw fit to denounce them. American ballrooms, once invaded by European dance steps, were now throbbing to these sexier moves. In his eminent book, The History Of Jazz, author Ted Gioia argues that such new currents in social dancing also forced a change ...
Vicenza Jazz 2018 - Prima Parte

by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz Varie sedi 10--20.05.2018 The Birth of the Youth" era l'allusivo sottotitolo della ventitreesima edizione del festival vicentino, come sempre sotto la direzione di Riccardo Brazzale. Il tentativo, affrontato anche dalla grafica neo-psichedelica del manifesto e dai saggi di vari autori nel prezioso quaderno, era quello di celebrare il ...
Radka Toneff: Fairytales

by Gareth Thompson
Norway's best-selling jazz album ever is also a recording laced with tragedy. Only weeks after its 1982 release, singer Radka Toneff was found dead in the Bygdøy woods, near Oslo. She was aged thirty. The verdict was suicide caused by an overdose of sleeping pills. Toneff was born in 1952 and by her ...
Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without A Trace

by Edward Blanco
The Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra follows up the highly successful debut album Portraits and Places (Origin, 2016), with another masterpiece recording on Without A Trace offering new and exciting arrangements of three standards and four creative Reeves originals that all together, pack quite a powerful musical punch. A full-tenured professor at The City University of New ...
Cecile McLorin Salvant: Dreams and Daggers

by Angelo Leonardi
È un disco importante questo di Cécile McLorin Salvant. Il disco della piena maturità, quello che segna la consacrazione della giovane vocalist nell'olimpo del canto jazz. Dopo tre lavori in studio (l'ultimo dei quali vincitore di un Grammy) Cécile dimostra con questo doppio live di non essere solo la voce afro-americana più avvincente del presente ma ...
Cecile McLorin Salvant with the Aaron Diehl Trio at Dazzle

by Geoff Anderson
Cecile McLorin Salvant with the Aaron Diehl Trio Dazzle Denver, CO November 10, 2017 Cecile McLorin Salvant with the Aaron Diehl Trio. Two acts for the price of one? Two different artists welded together for the sake of a concert? Hardly. Salvant has been performing with Diehl and his trio for ...