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Blue Side of Lonesome: Country Crooners on BGO
by Jakob Baekgaard
Crooning is an art that is inevitably associated with the big five: Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra. These are also singers that have become respected in jazz circles. However, there are many other great crooners that are worthy of attention, also if they can't be associated with jazz. The ...
Mysteries Of The Deep and Binary from Brian (Shankar) Adler
by Dan McClenaghan
The compact disc probably won't disappear anytime soon, but the importance of the physical product is on the wane in the music world. Drummer Brian (Shankar) Adler works the “digital download only" mode of operation in his music-making sojourn, with two marvelous, mysterious, free-flowing EP sets, Mysteries of the Deep and Binary. Brian Shankar ...
Two Sides of Stunt: Jacob Anderskov and Jacob Christoffersen
by Jakob Baekgaard
Stunt Records is the most prominent jazz label in Denmark, and for a long time they have released high quality jazz, but other genres have also caught the attention of label heads, Søren Friis and Peter Littauer. However, there is a decidedly mainstream appeal to many of their releases and the voices of the so-called avant-garde ...
Paul Kelly: Seven Sonnets & A Song and Death's Dateless Night
by Doug Collette
Paul Kelly is one of our most brilliant songwriters in large part because he is so courageous in taking an unconventional approach to his creative endeavors. In the last few years alone, since his last recording of original material under his own name, Spring And Fall (Dramatico, 2012) he's undertaken a tour in which he's performed ...
Uri Caine: gli ultimi progetti
by Angelo Leonardi
Gli ultimi due album di Uri Caine confermano la sua statura di musicista poliedrico e inclassificabile. Il pianista di Filadelfia spazia da sempre tra scuole e generi con disincanto e spirito critico ed è uno dei rari compositori e interpreti d'oggi che esprime costante originalità. In questi due dischi, autoprodotti, non abbiamo sorprese stilistiche, ...
Poker di Michael Jefry Stevens
by Giuseppe Segala
Il pianista, compositore, teorico e didatta Michael Jefry Stevens ha impresso il proprio significativo contributo al jazz contemporaneo attraverso un lavoro che dura da circa quarant'anni, associato a un ampio ventaglio di musicisti e a formazioni di grande interesse, tra cui Mosaic Sextet e Liquid Time con Dave Douglas, The Fonda/Stevens Group con Joe Fonda, Conference ...
Steve Lawson: A Crack Where the Light Gets In / The Way Home
by Geno Thackara
British bassist Steve Lawson likes to tag his music as “the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had." That's not to say that it's bright and cheerful all the time (though that's nice when it happens); rather it's colorful and evocative enough to make each respective kind of day a little richer. Whether playing in ...
Massimiliano Milesi, Giacomo Papetti, Enrico Merlin
by Vincenzo Roggero
Massimiliano Milesi, Giacomo Papetti Dimidiam UR Records Valutazione: * * * ½ Basta l'iniziale “Come Sunday" per capire dove il duo Massimiliano Milesi/Giacomo Papetti vada a parare. Il brano di Duke Ellington è a stento riconoscibile non grazie a stravolgimenti epocali o a chissà quali stramberie interpretative ma perché la ...
Cyrille secondo Tononi
by Tiziano Tononi
Tiziano Tononi è da sempre un ammiratore di Andrew Cyrille, dal cui senso del ritmo ha tratto ispirazione per i numerosi progetti che da decenni porta avanti cercando un ideale ponte culturale tra la scena jazzistica afro-americana e quella italiana. Abbiamo approfittato della uscita, quasi contemporanea, dei CD “Proximity" e “The Declaration of ...
In Jazz We Trust: On The Politically Inspired Work Of Delfeayo Marsalis and Ted Nash
by Dan Bilawsky
The current state of American politics--a veritable cesspool that makes reality television seem sane by comparison--leaves little to feel good about. Moral compasses are skewed, elected officials bicker like fractious toddlers, and candidates ranging from the lunatic sybarite variety to the bumptiously insincere seek the highest office in the land with strong approval from the loud ...
