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Geri Allen & Timeline Live
By Geri Allen
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Philly Joe; Four By Five; The Western Wall / Soul Eyes; LWB's House; Embraceable You /
Loverman; Ah Leu Cha; In Appreciation.
Oran Etkin: Wake Up Clarinet!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prende la musica per gioco, Oran Etkin. Discepolo di Yusef Lateef e di Dave Liebman, origini israeliane, Etkin pensa che la musica debba essere, innanzitutto, insegnata. Ecco perché trasforma le sue esibizioni in vere e proprie lezioni di educazione musicale per i più piccini. Ha pure inaugurato un metodo che chiama Timbalooloo e che porta in ...
Randy Weston African Rhythms Sextet:The Storyteller
by Ian Patterson
Randy Weston African Rhythms SextetThe StorytellerMotema Records2010 It's almost fifty years since pianist/composer Randy Weston first played in Africa and he has returned many times since--three times alone this year, 2010--absorbing the endless rhythms and colors of the mother continent. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries Weston ...
Charnett Moffett: Treasure
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il bassista Charnett Moffett è uno dei più importanti virtuosi del mondo del jazz. Ha ereditato le sue doti (e metà del suo nome) dal padre Charles che militò a fianco di Ornette Coleman (l'altra metà del nome) negli anni sessanta. Questo Tresure è l'undicesimo album a proprio nome di Charnett e lo vede alla testa ...
Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un impegno ambizioso sul piano espressivo, che solo una autentica fuoriclasse come la Allen poteva affrontare. Seguendo le tracce di alcuni suoi modelli pianistici (Taylor, Hancock), la lunga suite contenuta in questo disco assume la forma di un vero ritratto - musicale e non - che rivela la composita personalità di un'artista colta ed impegnata sul ...
Charnett Moffett: Treasure
by John Barron
Treasure is the eleventh solo release for veteran bassist Charnett Moffett. Much like his previous efforts, the focus here is on the New York native's jaw-dropping technique on both upright and electric fretless bass. Mixed in with the traditional jazz instrumentation of bass, piano, guitar and drums, Moffett utilizes the more unconventional sounds of tablas, tamboura ...
Geri Allen: Geri Allen & Timeline Live
by Mark F. Turner
Remember the time when jazz and dance were simpatico partners? Where swing and tap were intertwined with lively music and sweltering choreography in joints, halls, and clubs. Probably not, but pianist Geri Allen does, as she reflects on those past golden moments and dares to create new ones with Geri Allen & Timeline Live. ...
Geri Allen: Flying Toward The Sound
by Mark F. Turner
One of modern jazz's foremost pianists, Geri Allen exhibits a musical profundity that is coupled by lyricism and soul. Whether leading a trio of esteemed peers--Charlie Haden and Paul Motian--at that landmark venue, Live at the Village Vanguard (DIW, 2000), or giving homage to the obscure jazz matriarch, pianist Mary Lou Williams, with Zodiac Suite: Revisited ...
Antonio Ciacca Quintet: Lagos Blues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel realizzare il sesto lavoro da leader Antonio Ciacca ha coronato un sogno: incidere un album con la partecipazione del suo mentore Steve Grossman. E Lagos Blues vede protagonista proprio il musicista americano, capace di dar corpo - con alcuni interventi di rara efficacia - a una scaletta che si risolve in sette brani, scelti tra ...
Rufus Reid: Out Front
by Ken Dryden
Long a first-call bassist, Rufus Reid has played with numerous greats since arriving on the jazz scene in the early '70s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer and Jimmy Heath, to name just a few, in addition to a number of dates as a leader. His fat tone ...
