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JD Allen Trio at Bohemian Caverns, February 27, 2010

by Franz A. Matzner
March 17, 2010

J.D. Allen Trio Bohemian Caverns Washington, DC February 27, 2010Saxophonist JD Allen's music is an outgrowth of the mystical and transcendental experimentation key jazz musicians undertook in the sixties and seventies. However, unlike many contemporary performers who explore this tradition as a stylistic choice, perhaps driven by admiration for ...

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Cuarteto Latinoamericano + Quintet of the Americas, March 10 at Americas Society

by Ernest Barteldes
March 17, 2010

Cuarteto Latinoamericano + Quintet of the Americas Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Americas Society New York, NY Compositions by new Mexican composers were presented at this joint appearance from the two classical/folk groups, at their first live collaboration in four years. The Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Saul Bitran, Aton Bitran and ...

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Comicoperando: A Tribute to the Music of Robert Wyatt

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 15, 2010

Teatro Comunale - Modena - 01.03.2010 Fosse stata una cover band qualsiasi, sarebbe bastato poco per liquidare la recensione. Sarebbe bastato ricordare che Robert Wyatt non è passibile di omaggi, che la musica dell'ex Soft Machine è quanto di meno “coverizzabile" possa esserci, che la poetica del nostro è talmente unica, sublime e delicata, da non ...

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Eric Vloeimans Fugimundi, Ottawa, Canada, March 8, 2010

by John Kelman
March 15, 2010

Eric Vloeimans FugimundiOttawa International Jazz Festival Fall/Winter SeriesNAC Fourth Stage, Ottawa, CanadaMarch 8, 2010For its second-to-last date in its 2009/2010 Fall/Winter Series, the Ottawa International Jazz Festival continued its perennial support of the Dutch music scene by bringing trumpeter Eric Vloeimans' Fugimundi trio to the Fourth Stage of the National Arts ...

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Mauro Ottolini Sousaphonics

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2010

Pinocchio Live Jazz - Firenze - 6.2.2010 Nel bel programma del Pinocchio, ricco di originali proposte, non poteva mancare la Sousaphonics dell'estroverso trombonista veneto Mauro Ottolini (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del CD dell'orchestra). Musicista dalle eclettiche frequentazioni (è stato membro dell'orchestra classica dell'Arena di Verona, ha suonato con Pavarotti, Grace Jones, Lucio Dalla, Vinicio ...

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Don Williams' Tribute to Billy James

by David A. Orthmann
March 11, 2010

Don Williams' Tribute to Billy James Trumpets Jazz Club Montclair, NJ February 18, 2010 Revered by Hammond B-3 organ and soul-jazz aficionados, drummer Billy James, who died last November at the age of 73, is best known for his role in the bands of organist Don Patterson. James' galvanizing ride ...

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T. S. Monk at 38th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival

by Matt Marshall
March 10, 2010

T. S. Monk Sextet 38th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival Kirtland, OH February 27, 2010 Although the last of the February snow onslaughts tried its best to kill the 38th annual Lakeland Jazz Festival--the longest-running jazz festival in Northeast Ohio--and did, indeed, postpone trumpeter Sean Jones' scheduled February 26 ...

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Momenta Quartet at Americas Society, February 24, 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
March 10, 2010

Momenta Quartet Americas Society New York, NY February 24, 2010 Americas Society has recently been introducing the work of new composers to a wider audience, and in late February, the organization presented contemporary music by Latin American composers at Manhattan's Upper East Side cultural institution. The music was challenging both ...

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Craig Taborn

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 10, 2010

Music Agorà - Suoni senza confini Auditorium “Fabrizio de Andrè" - Castelverde (CR) - 03.03.2010 All'interno del cartellone stellare del Festival di Saalfelden del 2008 (Dave Douglas, Tim Berne, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Holland e molti altri) trovava posto un gruppo con molto meno blasone dei precedenti ma protagonista del miglior concerto in assoluto della rassegna. ...

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Roswell Rudd Quartet

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 9, 2010

Piacenza Jazz Fest Teatro President - 27.02.2010 Roswell Rudd è un pezzo di storia della musica afroamericana. Negli anni sessanta partecipa alla rivoluzione del free jazz collaborando con Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, conservando nel suo approccio esecutivo profondi legami con la tradizione sia dal punto di vista del fraseggio che nei risvolti timbrici. E ...