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Celebrating Blue Note Records 75th With Delicious Vinyl

by Mark Corroto
April 16, 2014

Everything old is new again. Except of course for the timeless music of Blue Note Records which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. The recordings Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff produced starting in 1939 have been collector's items since day one. While much of the label's music has been re-released in digital format, CDs and in ...

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Baltic Mood! Nuovi suoni dall’Estonia

by AAJ Staff
April 7, 2014

Nazione piccola--nemmeno un milione e mezzo di abitanti--ma ricca di talento musicale, l'Estonia. I nomi più famosi sono certamente quelli di Arvo Pärt o del direttore d'orchestra Neeme Järvi, ma anche altri compositori percorrono con originalità le strade della scrittura contemporanea. ECM abbina ad esempio due dischi interessanti nelle sue uscite ...

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Swedish indie label Volenza relaunches

by Chris Mosey
April 3, 2014

At the age of 82, Torgil Rosenberg has decided that the time has come to take a back seat in the running his Swedish independent jazz label Volenza. “It's time for a new generation to take over," he says, “My future role in the company will be a purely advisory one."

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On Dog: Part I: Sloeblack / Part II: White Horse Y La Rumba

by Stefano Merighi
March 24, 2014

On Dog Part I: Sloeblack Ilk 2013 On Dog Part I: White Horse Y La Rumba Ilk 2013 Prolifica oltre le aspettative questa combinazione leaderistica che accosta Francesco Bigoni ed il danese ...

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Latest Releases of Aural Terrains Label

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 22, 2014

The British label Aural Terrains continues to explore the extreme sonic terrains of electro-acoustic spontaneous improvisations, each different in its vivid atmosphere and suggestive sounds. The label's recent pair of releases feature two distinct outfits that present the arresting results of a careful, balanced mix of acoustics and electronics. Thanos Chrysakis / Ken ...

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Christian McBride: People Music - Out Here

by Luigi Sforza
March 14, 2014

Di Christian McBride colpisce l'energia, la presa di coscienza dei propri mezzi espressivi e il modo in cui riesce a plasmare la scoppiettante materia sonora che suona, ovvero un miscuglio proficuo di post-bop e cantabile modern jazz. A due anni di distanza da The Good Feeling il contrabbassista afroamericano torna con due dischi, uno, ...

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I cubi di Alban Darche

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 12, 2014

Il sassofonista e compositore di Nantes (dove ha fondato la Yolk, editrice di due dei tre CD qui sotto trattati) Alban Darche è certamente musicista vorace e--diremmo--sorretto da non poca autostima. I suoi progetti ruotano attorno a un concetto “cubico" che è generosamente illustrato dalla sua più recente produzione. Le Cube ...

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Four From The Posi-Tone Pile

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2014

Some labels release a few records a year; some put out a record every month or two; and then there are those, like the Los Angeles-based Posi-Tone Records, that prefer to push even more music through the pipeline. As 2014 came into being, Posi-Tone began an ambitious release schedule, putting out a new ...

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Two Intonema Releases: Lucio Capece and Vile Cretin

by John Eyles
February 26, 2014

The Intonema label released its first CDs in 2011 and has maintained a steady stream of noteworthy releases since, the current pair bringing the total to ten. One of the more remarkable features of Intonema is that it is a Russian label, based in St Petersburg--surely a measure of how far the world has evolved since ...

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Criss Cross Jazz Roundup

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 24, 2014

In the past several years there has been a marked change in the jazz landscape that has somehow managed to further spread the demarcation lines between those musicians who practice mainstream leanings and those with a hyper vigilance towards the new avant-garde. Oddly enough, leave it to Criss Cross Jazz, a label that has historically been ...