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Conference Call: What About...?
by Mark Corroto
One of the finest improvising units working today, Conference Call is a complete band, capable of touching all the jazz bases, be they individual or group improvisation, or the performance of composed music. The quintet's sixth release, What About...? is a two-disc session from the band's 10th anniversary tour, and was recorded live at Alchemia in ...
Vijay Anderson: Hard-Boiled Wonderland
by AAJ Italy Staff
Hard-Boiled Wonderland, nome preso da un romanzo di Haruki Murakami, è un ensemble allestito dal batterista e band leader Vijay Anderson che per l'occasione riunisce due trii con i quali si esibiva nella Bay area nel periodo 2007-2008. Il primo con la presenza di due fiati, il secondo con due chitarre. Non la classica doppia formazione ...
Frode Gjerstad / Paal Nilssen-Love: Gromka
by Mark Corroto
It is hard to choose which duo partner of drummer Paal Nilssen-Love to favor over another, as there are simply so many to pick from. There are his collaborations with Ken Vandermark, heard on their Chicago Volume and Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Superjazz, 2009); the fine Peter Brotzmann session, Woodcuts ((Smalltown Superjazz, 2010); Mats Gustafsson's Splatter (Smalltown ...
Satoko Fujii ma-do: Desert Ship
by John Sharpe
Desert Ship represents the second outing by Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii's ma-do quartet, following on from the acclaimed Heat Wave (Not Two, 2008). Like its predecessor, this well-recorded studio session presents an eclectic set of nine original compositions in a 57-minute program. Already with a discography numbering over 60 entries, Fujii has provided a catalog as ...
Michael Marcus: Lotus Symphony
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dagli inizi al sax baritono in gruppi di rhythm n' blues all'esperienza con Jaky Byard, di tempo ne è passato, ma Michael Marcus continua ancora a sorprederci. Cambia strumento (in questo disco si dedica solo al clarinetto), ma la sua statura artistica resta invariata, con un ampia possibilità espressiva che prende a prestito da tutta la ...
Szilárd Mezei: Mint amikor tavasz / When Spring
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il violinista Szilárd Mezei è uno dei musicisti più originali della musica improvvisata contemporanea. Appartiene alla minoranza etnica ungherese che vive in Vojvodina (Serbia) e da oltre un decennio opera un'appassionante e rigorosa sintesi tra jazz, folklore ungherese, musica classica e contemporanea influenzato dalle opere di Bartók, Lutoslawski, Szabados e Braxton. In gran parte delle sue ...
Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: Stepwise
by John Sharpe
Taylor Ho Bynum is one of the most inventive and exciting trumpeters of his generation. Well known for his association with such seminal figures as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon, he is also building a substantial body of work in his own right. Stepwise is his second duet with drummer and longtime ally Tomas ...
Vandermark 5: Annular Gift
by AAJ Italy Staff
Parlando di Ken Vandermark si rischia a volte di ripetersi, specialmente quando si sottolinea - ed è sempre doveroso farlo - quanto il suo lavoro riesca sempre a muoversi con altissima qualità nell'esplorazione dei linguaggi contemporanei che tentano di sintetizzare creativamente il lessico afroamericano degli ultimi cinquant'anni. In questo senso il percorso dei Vandermark 5 è ...
Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite: 5000 Poems
by John Sharpe
There was a time when the addition of a chordal instrument such as piano to a horn-led free jazz quartet would have been viewed as a nod to the mainstream. But not the case now and especially not when the pianist in question is John Blum and the group is trombonist Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite. ...
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Desert Ship
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/bandleader Satoko Fujii's Ma-Do Quartet is loud, with a dense volume that is often stately, often fractured. The same can be said of much of her recorded output.Fujii is a stunningly prolific artist who records in a dizzying array of ensemble configurations. Of her two most notable quartets, the Ma-Do band is described as ...
