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Giulia Cianca: quattro album in pochi mesi

by Neri Pollastri
June 10, 2024

Proveniente dal pop e folgorata dall'improvvisazione dopo la quasi casuale esperienza a Siena Jazz, la giovane artista romana Giulia Cianca ha realizzato negli ultimi anni un cospicuo numero di album, di alcuni dei quali ci occuperemo in quest'articolo. La cantante, che ci racconta quest'esperienza nell'intervista appena pubblicata, vi sperimenta molteplici modalità espressive per improvvisare vocalmente, in ...

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Taj Mahal: The Blues Is Eternal

by Doug Collette
June 8, 2024

Over the course of his fifty-plus years of active musicology, Taj Mahal has explored all manner of roots music, but he always returns to his main influences in the blues. His delving into reggae and Caribbean styles has not only illuminated the links connecting the genres, but also increasingly honed a feel for sharp musicianship that ...

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From Violinist Layale Chaker, Two Ensembles, Two Superb Albums

by Hrayr Attarian
June 3, 2024

Lebanese-American violinist and composer, Layale Chaker starts off 2024 with a pair of releases with two different ensembles. These coincide with the premiere of Chaker's first opera Ruinous Gods at the Spoleto Festival USA . The albums are equally enchanting--there is not a more suitable adjective than that--and they are both in Chaker's signature style that ...

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Guitar Forms 2024

by Jerome Wilson
May 23, 2024

These are a few recent releases where guitars have a featured role. Jeanfrancois Prins Blue Note Mode GAM Records 2024 Guitarist Jeanfrancois Prins is from Belgium but his music comes straight out of the American jazz tradition. He recorded this album at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio ...

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Tony Monaco Trio and Mark Egan-Shawn Pelton-Shane Theriot: Three Is Not A Crowd

by Doug Collette
May 6, 2024

Say what we might about quartets, quintets, sextets and beyond, it might be fair to say the trio is the most potent instrumental lineup of them all. Three-piece ensembles hold a special place in the annals of improvisational music (and not just in the jazz milieu: the term 'power trio' was coined in the rock realm ...

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Inspired by Water

by Geno Thackara
May 5, 2024

Here we have a timeless theme that has been providing inspiration for artists as long as people have made art. It's easy to see why water is a perennial subject, and for something so endlessly changeable, it's no surprise that these works could hardly be more different. Fergus McCreadie Trio Stream Edition ...

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Noah Haidu and Dave Bass: Mirror Images

by Doug Collette
May 1, 2024

Noah Haidu and Dave Bass may be too much the traditionalists to become true innovators, but such observations hardly dismiss their efforts as exceptional stylists. Both men's recent releases certify them as musicians who can reliably remind us where the most fruitful sources of inspiration lie in terms of both material and musicianship. Bass' Trio Nuevo ...

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Alessandro Bosetti's Music of Language

by Mark Corroto
April 26, 2024

The Milan-born, Marsailles resident Alessandro Bosetti may have started as a saxophonist and member of the influential free improvisation group Phosphor, but he has morphed into a composer and sound artist. Working solo, or with Kenta Nagai and Tony Buck in Trophies, he concentrated on the musicality of language and individual voices. His investigations drill down ...

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Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett and Azimuth light up ECM Luminessence reissues

by Chris May
April 16, 2024

The spring 2024 iteration of ECM's audiophile vinyl reissue series, Luminessence, presents another trio of landmark albums: Jan Garbarek Quartet's Afric Pepperbird, from 1971, Keith Jarrett and Garbarek's Luminessence, from 1975, and Azimuth's Azimuth, from 1977. The combined scope of the music on the three discs (which come with new liner notes) is prairie wide, and ...

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OJC Bop and Beyond: The Cats and Yusef Lateef

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 9, 2024

As Craft Recordings continue to mine their vast collection of recordings, their new take on the decades old Original Jazz Classics imprimatur continues to offer up inspired selections worthy of wider recognition. What also sets these reissues apart is superb quality control, with remastering done by Kevin Gray and pristine pressings that in many cases offer ...