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100 anni di Django

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 24, 2011

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 ...

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Kadima Collective

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2011

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 ...

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Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 17, 2011

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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All Together Now: Improv’s World Wide Web

by John Eyles
January 16, 2011

Since the turn of the millennium, improvised music has increasingly become a global phenomenon. Rather than improvising players forming inter-continental links as they have since the 1970s, they now make links across the globe, a process made easier by the advent of the world-wide web and social networking sites. If you were to draw onto a ...

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Benoit Delbecq: The Sixth Jump / Circles and Calligrams

by Jerry D'Souza
January 16, 2011

Pianist Benoît Delbecq makes his debut trio recording with The Sixth Jump, released simultaneously with Circles and Calligrams, which Delbecq describes in a solo outing. The first disc amplifies his skills as an empathic leader whose inventive thematic explorations are woven in spontaneous interaction with his mates. The second lets him explore the dynamics of the ...

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Two Aspects of Dave Liebman

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 10, 2011

Records on which the prolific saxophonist David Liebman appears, not counting those under his own leadership, could constitute an entire jazz sub-genre on their own. So the two records reviewed here are part of a crowded field.And although Liebman's presence is the common denominator, it is more than a little unfair to the leaders ...

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Jan Lundgren celebrates Andre Previn and Cole Porter

by Chris Mosey
January 7, 2011

What do Andre Previn and Cole Porter have in common? Well, with Saul Chaplin, Previn adapted Porter's greatest hit, the score for the 1953 MGM musical Kiss Me Kate. Apart from this, and with little apparent consequence until now, both men greatly influenced the life of Torgil Rosenberg, a Swedish dentist, amateur flier and jazz enthusiast. ...

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Le gemme Original Jazz Classics

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 22, 2010

Continua a crescere rigogliosa nel jazz l'arte della ristampe, dove eccelle sommamente il catalogo della Original Jazz Classics del gruppo Concord. Ecco in rassegna alcuni capolavori consegnati al giudizio storico, su cui non c'è molto da argomentare. Per quei pochi che non li possiedono, sarà un illuminante percorso iniziatico nel jazz moderno. Chi ha già i ...

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Altri/Ritmi Speciale regali di Natale 2010

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 20, 2010

Forse regalare un disco nel 2010 è un po' demodé. Probabilmente i settimanali più alla moda vi suggeriranno che il massimo per questo Natale è regalare o farsi regalare un i-pod pieno di brani che voi amate. Comunque la pensiate. Sia che vogliate acquistarli, sminuzzarli in mp3, suggerirli, impacchettarli, viverli sotto l'albero, questi sono i CD ...

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1970s Incus: Old and New

by John Eyles
December 5, 2010

Coincidentally, two recent releases, one a reissue on Emanem, the second an album of previously unissued material on Incus, put the spotlight on the Incus label in the mid 1970s. This was a time when the so-called “second generation of free improvisers" was emerging. At the time, the first generation--including Incus proprietors guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist ...