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Umbria Jazz Winter, Days 3-5: December 30, 2011-January 1, 2012

Read "Umbria Jazz Winter, Days 3-5: December 30, 2011-January 1, 2012" reviewed by Sara Villa

by Sara Villa

Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 Umbria Jazz Winter #19 Perugia, Italy December 28, 2011-January 1, 2012 Stan Tracey Trio Stan Tracey started the morning of his 85th birthday in the best possible way: playing jazz for an audience which was enthusiastic to share his music in such an iconic ...

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Bright Moments: So Cal Jazz Highlights, 2011

Read "Bright Moments: So Cal Jazz Highlights, 2011" reviewed by Chuck Koton

by Chuck Koton

Southern California's jazz community has taken some brutal hits in the last few years. Too many of the brilliant artists who make the music have passed on, as have the venues they performed in. The Jazz Bakery's shuttering nearly three years ago was a breath- snatching body blow; Charlie Os abrupt closing this past summer stung ...

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Tigran Hamasyan Trio

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Auditorium - Roma - 27.11.2011 Il giovane pianista armeno Tigran Hamasyan è tra i nuovi talenti emergenti sulla scena jazzistica internazionale, con quattro album già incisi a suo nome e la partecipazione all'ultimo quartetto di Dhafer Youssef con il quale si era già presentato l'anno scorso al pubblico romano facendo un'ottima impressione. C'era dunque molta aspettativa ...

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Colin Vallon Trio

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Auditorium - Roma - 13.11.2011 La concomitanza del suo concerto con quello di Pat Metheny, entrambi in programma presso l'Auditorium romano allo stesso giorno e nella stessa ora, non ha certamente favorito il bravo pianista svizzero Colin Vallon, la cui musica avrebbe sicuramente meritato un pubblico più numeroso, ma è probabile che il recente approdo alla ...

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Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall and the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio: London, UK, January 26, 2012

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by John Sharpe

Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall and the Alexander von Schlippenbach TrioThe VortexLondonJanuary 26, 2012 The last week in January at north London's Vortex was given over to a mini-festival curated by saxophonist Evan Parker, genteelly entitled “Might I Suggest." Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, it showcased several German-based musicians rarely seen ...

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William Parker Orchestra with Kidd Jordan

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Aperitivo in concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 05.02.2012 Edward “Kidd" Jordan è un gentile e pacato signore di quasi settantasette anni, nato a Crowley in Louisiana e trasferitosi successivamente a New Orleans. Di professione musicista, sassofoni e clarinetti sono i suoi strumenti, Kidd Jordan fa parte di quella schiera di jazzisti che non hanno mai ...

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Dave Burrell: Philadelphia, PA, January 18, 21 and 30, 2012

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by Kurt Gottschalk

Dave BurrellThe Rosenbach Museum & Library and Philadelphia Arts Alliance Philadelphia, PAJanuary 18, 21 and 30, 2012 Dave Burrell is something of a renaissance jazzman. He recorded with drummer Sunny Murray and saxophonist Archie Shepp during the halcyon free jazz days of Paris in the late 1960s, and over the ...

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Warren Chiasson: New York, January 31, 2012

Read "Warren Chiasson:  New York, January 31, 2012" reviewed by Bob Kenselaar

by Bob Kenselaar

Warren Chiasson: A Tribute to George ShearingNew York Bahá'í Center, John Birks Gillespie AuditoriumNew York, NYJanuary 31, 2012 “Joy"--now, there's a word people don't always toss around loosely when talking about music. But it's the perfect word to describe how Warren Chiasson approaches the vibraphone--with great joy and with terrific mastery, ...

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Umbria Jazz Winter #19, Days 1-2: December 28-29, 2011

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by Sara Villa

Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 Umbria Jazz Winter #19 Perugia, Italy December 28, 2011-January 1, 2012 In an Italy where the cuts inflicted to the cultural sector by the last Berlusconi government led a figure like Riccardo Muti to publically express his indignation, Umbria Jazz Winter # 19 was a confirmation ...

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Gallo & The Roosters

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Pinocchio Live Jazz - Firenze - 21.1.2012 È uno dei gruppi più interessanti della scena nazionale ed ha al suo attivo tre ottimi album (uno, The Exploding Note Theory, del 2009 e con il chitarrista Gary Lucas ospite, davvero notevolissimo). Eppure non suona quasi mai dal vivo questo quartetto messo in piedi da Danilo Gallo assieme ...


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