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Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun & Havana Moon DVD/CD

by Doug Collette
November 13, 2016

It might be fair to say that any concert appearance by a band with fifty years plus history is an occasion in itself and doubly so (or more) to offer that observation about the Rolling Stones. Who would've guessed in 1963, 1973 or 1983 that the group would not only still be together in 2016, but ...

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Jazz for President - Le suite di Delfeayo Marsalis e Ted Nash

by Angelo Leonardi
November 7, 2016

Gli anni sessanta sono lontani e con essi la controversia su jazz e politica. Com'è noto, la musica è un'arte asemantica e i musicisti non possono trasmettere significati (in questo caso politici) con il linguaggio delle note. Però gli artisti esprimono eventuali scelte ideologiche iscrivendo la loro musica in un quadro semantico più generale, fatto di ...

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Allison Miller & Honey Ear Trio: Lean; Swivel

by Doug Collette
November 4, 2016

Allison Miller may well be the renaissance woman of modern jazz. High-profile mainstream gigs like appearing with the band on Late Night with Seth Myers hardly hint at the diverse complexity of her collaborations and work under own name, most conspicuously including the band Boom Tic Boom. She parses out individual components of her artistry with ...

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Bobo Rondelli e Piero Ciampi cantano Livorno

by Neri Pollastri
October 25, 2016

Piero Ciampi è oggi un nome noto. A lui è intitolato perfino uno dei più importanti concorsi musicali italiani dedicati alla canzone d'autore, che ha da poco celebrato il ventennale. E di lui, della sua storia drammaticamente romanzesca, si sa e si parla spesso. Ma non è sempre stato così: per lungo tempo, anche dopo la ...

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Blue Side of Lonesome: Country Crooners on BGO

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 23, 2016

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 ...

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Mysteries Of The Deep and Binary from Brian (Shankar) Adler

by Dan McClenaghan
October 19, 2016

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 ...

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Two Sides of Stunt: Jacob Anderskov and Jacob Christoffersen

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 16, 2016

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 ...

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Paul Kelly: Seven Sonnets & A Song and Death's Dateless Night

by Doug Collette
October 16, 2016

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 ...

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Uri Caine: gli ultimi progetti

by Angelo Leonardi
October 12, 2016

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, ...

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Poker di Michael Jefry Stevens

by Giuseppe Segala
October 10, 2016

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 ...