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Talus / Seamlessly / Re: Start
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella home page del suo sito, Alberto Braida racconta che da piccolo smontò una macchinina essendo stato attratto dai particolari e dai vari pezzi di quell'oggetto più che dal modellino nel suo insieme. Ci sembra che questo racconto colga bene lo spirito di insaziabile curiosità di Braida, alla ricerca di nuovi orizzonti per lo strumento pianoforte. ...
Assaf Kehati Quartet: Finding Its Own Voice
by Eyal Hareuveni
Israeli guitarist Assaf Kehati, Boston-based since 2007, is a regular in drummer Billy Hart's outfits. His melodic compositions are, he says, inspired by the details of daily life. He cites as influences composers who have blurred the distinctions between folk/pop and more sophisticated music--Hector Berlioz, George Gershwin, guitarist Pat Metheny, Sting and even country singer Kenny ...
Milt Jackson and Paul Desmond: Elder Statesmen on CTI
by Dan Bilawsky
Popular music is usually a young person's game. Older artists, in any genre, often get pushed to the periphery to make way for the next big thing that can sell in numbers. But the CTI label was age-blind when it came to its artist roster. While it's certainly true that the stable of musicians on the ...
The Guitar Stylists of CTI Records
by Dan Bilawsky
In many ways, the guitarists who recorded for the CTI label owe a great debt to the late Wes Montgomery. Guitarist Montgomery's last recordings, before his untimely death from a heart attack, were like a laboratory test for producer Creed Taylor. At the time, Taylor was still trying to work out a formula to balance the ...
CTI Masterworks: The Second Batch
by John Kelman
After a mighty kickoff near the end of 2010, CTI Masterworks is pushing ahead full-steam with another set of six remastered reissues, beautifully packaged in soft digipak editions. Its first batch of reissues included a tremendous, four-disc retrospective box set, CTI Records--The Cool Revolution, and an expanded, double-disc version of 1971's California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium, ...
Bhajan & Gamelan
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che cosa lega questi tre album è presto detto: tutti ci rimandano al medesimo ambito liturgico/ritualistico, del resto così tipico (anzi senz'altro preponderante) della musica orientale. Qui, oltretutto, due dischi su tre si riferiscono alla tradizione gamelan, piuttosto nota anche da noi, cosa che probabilmente non si può dire di quella bhajan. Che cos'è, dunque, il ...
Going Solo: One is NOT the Loneliest Number
by Mark Corroto
With the advent of new and affordable recording technologies capable of delivering exceptionally high quality sound, the market for idiosyncratic solo recordings is flourishing--in an era when so many are lamenting the death of jazz. Released mostly on small labels or as self-produced projects, the recordings are reminiscent of the cassette culture from the DIY 1980s ...
100 anni di Django
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell'anno appena trascorso è caduta la ricorrenza del 100° anniversario della nascita del grande chitarrista Django Reinhardt, inventore del jazz gitano (o manouche), artista tra i più seguiti e imitati ancora oggi (lo abbiamo ricordato qui). Naturalmente non sono mancate le celebrazioni (anche se un po' in sordina) da parte delle innumerevoli schiere di appassionati che ...
Kadima Collective
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' da qualche anno che il movimento jazzistico israeliano ha conquistato visibilità e notorietà internazionale mettendo in luce una serie di notevoli musicisti e di talenti cristallini (i fratelli Coen, il bassista Omer Avital, la pianista Anat Fort, il chitarrista Amos Hoffman, il sassofonista Eli Degibri, tra gli altri). Anche in una realtà così effervescente e ...
Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Drummer Paul Motian is well-known for his “melodic" percussion, in which he skits and dodges arrhythmically, letting the guitars and saxophones mark the pulse of the composition. But for all the praise breathlessly--and deservedly--heaped upon Motian for this approach, the number of drummers who follow his example somewhere on this side of the free-jazz frontier, is ...
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