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Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style

Read "Iron Kim Style" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Iron Kim Style is quite humorous but serious too--The eponymous debut of an improvisational jazz-rock quintet that is: Built around two guitars, with no keyboards, plus trumpet and bass clarinet as the other solo voices; named for both the North Korean dictator and the martial arts style instructed by Grandmaster “Iron" Kim; and, creative home for ...

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Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style

Read "Iron Kim Style" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Mettete assieme la lucida follia del chitarrista Dennis Rea e la pazzia mediterranea/atlantica dello straordinario producer Leonardo Pavkovic, scuotete bene, aggiungete, tanto per gradire, un dittatore coreano in visita pastorale e avrete uno dei migliori dischi dell'anno. E lo diciamo in anticipo, visto che l'anno è ancora lungo. Ma difficilmente saremo smentiti. Perché l'energia di questo ...

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Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style

Read "Iron Kim Style" reviewed by Nic Jones


It could be argued that the music Miles Davis was cutting about forty years ago still casts a shadow. Iron Kim Style stands in its shade, and for all of the original, offbeat stuff going on it's hard to shake the impression. According to the slipcase, all the music was freely improvised, which might be a ...

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Beppe Crovella: What’s Rattlin’ On The Moon? A Personal Vision Of The Music Of Mike Ratledge.

Read "What’s Rattlin’ On The Moon? A Personal Vision Of The Music Of Mike Ratledge." reviewed by Nic Jones


The sub-title makes all the difference here. Mike Ratledge was a key member of all the most worthwhile line-ups of Soft Machine, but alone amongst the quartet that consisted of himself, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt, he didn't go on to develop a solo career once he left the band. This and the passing ...

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Beppe Crovella: What's Rattlin' on the Moon?

Read "What's Rattlin' on the Moon?" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Come nei sogni le situazioni si fondono una nell'altra senza alcun confine, così questo meraviglioso omaggio di Beppe Crovella all'impareggiabile Mike Ratledge, mischia elegantemente dieci brani del tastierista dei Soft Machine e li lega assieme in una lunghissima suite, senza soluzione di continuità. E come in un sogno, i temi liquidi e psichedelici di Ratledge danzano ...

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Slivovitz: Hubris

Read "Hubris" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Fortunatamente il gusto del calembour e della provocazione ironica che troviamo nei titoli dei dodici brani di questo album li ritroviamo anche nella musica variegata e un po' pazza che possiamo ascoltare. A cominciare da quella “Zorn a Surriento" che avremmo voluto ancora più sulfurea, visto l'omaggio al folletto newyorchese. Rimane solo da chiedersi se il ...

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douBt: Never Pet a Burning Dog

Read "Never Pet a Burning Dog" reviewed by John Kelman


Sometimes bringing two musicians together for the first time can yield some real magic. That was the case when British keyboardist Alex Maguire joined up with Michel Delville and members of the Belgian guitarist's flagship group, The Wrong Object, for Brewed in Belgium (MoonJune, 2008). Never Pet a Burning Dog largely pares things down to a ...

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Moraine: Manifest Density

Read "Manifest Density" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Le prime note di “Save the Yuppie Breeding Grounds," con chitarra, violino e violoncello leggeri ma penetranti e sulle strade del post-rock, contengono una melodia trasognante. Non solo rock evidentemente in questo Manifest Density, ma sicuramente anche jazz, un jazz leggero, tanto soffice da avvicinarsi al third stream, come in “Nacho Sunset," una composizione di vari ...

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Geoff Leigh / Yumi Hara: Upstream

Read "Upstream" reviewed by Nic Jones


The former Yumi Hara Cawkwell is obviously intent on fashioning her own musical territory, if this and her previous Moonjune release --Dune (2008), as one half of a duo with the late bassist Hugh Hopper--are anything to go by. Her partner here is one-time Henry Cow member Geoff Leigh, whose concentration on the flute for a ...

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Allan Holdsworth: Blues for Tony

Read "Blues for Tony" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Questo doppio CD, registrato nel 2007, racchiude il meglio di un tour che ha visto Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Jimmy Haslip e Chad Wackerman scendere in campo per omaggiare il batterista Tony Williams. Il chitarrista Holdsworth e il tastierista Pasqua hanno militato nel New Tony Williams Lifetime, il quartetto che registrò gli album Believe It e ...


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