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Vinny Golia: Sfumato and Music for Like Instruments; The Clarinets

by Jeff Stockton
December 2, 2006

Vinny Golia Quartet Sfumato Clean Feed 2005 Vinny Golia Music for Like Instruments; The Clarinets Nine Winds 2005 The increase in the number of recently released solo ...

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Colossal Saxophones: Unity and Balladware

by Jeff Stockton
December 2, 2006

Frank Wright Unity ESP 2006 David S. Ware Quartet Balladware Thirsty Ear 2006 Frank Wright only knew how to play the tenor saxophone one way: ecstatically. A ...

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Andy Haas: Last Kind Words & Humanitarian War

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 2, 2006

Radio I-Ching Last Kind Words Resonant Music 2006 Andy Haas Humanitarian War Resonant Music 2006 Veteran drummer and tireless promoter Dee Pop has, in a pleasant surprise, ...

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Silent Knowledge / Bladik

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 27, 2006

Questi due dischi del catalogo Cuneiform, finalmente distribuiti in Italia, meritano un'attenzione particolare. Ci ricordano in primo luogo le doti di Elton Dean, il sassofonista dei Soft Machine e dei Centipede scomparso l'8 febbraio scorso all'età di sessant'anni. Sul solco della celebre Scuola di Canterbury, Dean contibuì a creare un'originale fusione col rock senza esaurirsi in ...

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Tra Svizzera e Giappone: percorsi e perlustrazioni sonore dell’elvetica For4ears

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 26, 2006

L’incontro musicale tra Oriente e Occidente non è solo una questione di strumentazione, né tanto meno di appartenenza anagrafica dei musicisti, improvvisatori, coinvolti nei vari progetti. Oriente e Occidente sono da sempre termini di una questione problematica, sottile, difficile ma al tempo stesso intrigante e insidiosa. Per questo la linea che unisce i diversi progetti e ...

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Das Vibenbass: Animals And Robots & Mindwrestling

by Mark Sabbatini
November 24, 2006

Das Vibenbass, a Seattle quartet performing since 2001, has hit the CD ground running by releasing its first two full-length albums this year. Toss in a live recording downloadable free from the “internet archive" on their website, and it's evident the band is doing a nice job of stamping out a recognizable identity for itself. Hovering ...

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Kind of Blue Records - E' blue ma non è solo jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 23, 2006

E’ apparsa sul mercato il 1° di aprile ma come etichetta non sembra proprio adatta ad essere appesa alla schiena di qualche vittima del famoso scherzo che tutti conosciamo. Anzi, la svizzera Kind of Blue è parsa piuttosto preoccupata di apparire blasfema, scegliendosi questo nome, in un certo senso così equiparandosi al disco forse più famoso ...

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Satoko Fujii: Bell The Cat!, Illusion Suite, Minerva, Zephyros, and Angelona

by Virginia A. Schaefer
November 18, 2006

This article looks at five recent albums by pianist and composer Satoko Fujii. Bell The Cat! and Illusion Suite were recorded by the Satoko Fujii Trio. Minerva, Zephyros and Angelona were recorded by the Satoko Fujii Quartet. Fujii's trio plays avant-garde jazz that uses Eastern European or Balkan scales, and complex meters. Bassist ...

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Satoko Fujii: Blueprint, Before The Dawn, Sketches, Live In Japan 2004, Fragment

by Virginia A. Schaefer
November 18, 2006

The prolific pianist, composer and bandleader Satoko Fujii performs and records with a variety of musical configurations. Discs by her two, well established, small groups--the Satoko Fujii Trio and Satoko Fujii Quartet--are reviewed in Part One of this article. Fujii also leads two jazz orchestras, both of which include Natsuki Tamura playing trumpet ...

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Tony Bennett And Bill Evans: The Classic Duets

by Samuel Chell
November 17, 2006

To capitalize on the renewed interest in Tony Bennett during the year of his attaining octogenarian status, Fantasy has just reissued The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album. A remastered edition was released as recently as 2003, but this time around five alternate takes have been added to the disc, one that for many listeners is the only ...