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Guitar in the Space Age!

Read "Guitar in the Space Age!" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Though prototype electric guitar first appeared in the early 1930s, the instrument only became a staple of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s. As a musical revolution was evolving, so was a different type altogether -space exploration. Sixty years on, in an age when the challenge is just to keep abreast of technological innovations it ...

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Somi: The Lagos Music Salon

Read "The Lagos Music Salon" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


L'attuale rinascita del soul, nella nuova connessione tra radici storiche, jazz, hip-hop e Africa non è solo europea (inglese e francese, soprattutto). Evidenziata da giovani cantanti nere con precise radici africane, trova in Somi una figura di crescente rilevanza, destinata ad ampio successo. 33 anni, nata negli Stati Uniti da genitori provenienti da ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: Guitar in the Space Age!

Read "Guitar in the Space Age!" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Con Guitar in the Space Age! prosegue il viaggio alla riscoperta della musica americana del secolo scorso da parte dell'infaticabile Bill Frisell. Questa volta tocca agli eroi della chitarra elettrica che dettavano legge nei decenni tra il secondo dopo guerra e i favolosi anni sessanta, nell'epoca dei primi viaggi nello spazio e della contestazione studentesca, del ...

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Theo Croker: Afro Physicist

Read "Afro Physicist" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Nel terreno d'incontro tra neo-bop, soul e fusion, il giovane trombettista e compositore Theo Croker mostra vivo talento e freschezza d'idee. Non è azzardato prevedergli un'imminente luminosa carriera e questo “Afro Physicist"--prodotto da Dee Dee Bridgewater e pubblicato dalla Okeh--si caratterizza come un lavoro fantasioso e maturo. Nipote di Doc Cheatham, Theo ha ...

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Somi: The Lagos Music Salon

Read "The Lagos Music Salon" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


To most people, the junction of New York and Lagos, Nigeria may not seem like a natural place for an album to take shape. Somi, thankfully, thought otherwise. This worldly and well-traveled vocalist makes it seem like the most natural of meeting points on The Lagos Music Salon. Somi's music has always been ...

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Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger

Read "Stranger" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Messasi in luce qualche anno fa con due ricercati lavori in piano trio per la Sony Music (Obsession e My Incomplete Soul) la pianista taiwanese Jo-Yu Chen, allieva di Kenny Barron, Jason Moran e Sam Yahel, pubblica il suo terzo disco confermando i partner ed entrando nella sussidiaria Okeh, storica etichetta molto attenta ai giovani talenti. ...

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Nils Petter Molvær: Switch

Read "Switch" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


A tre anni dal precedente Baboon Moon, ecco ripresentarsi il cinquantatreenne trombettista norvegese con uno dei suoi album certamente più interessanti e riusciti. L'avvio sembra ripercorrere in verità stilemi già ampiamente noti, di una fascinosa staticità, ma fin dal secondo brano, “The Kit," qualcosa muta. La ritmica si fa più viva, pulsante, a squadernare un ventaglio ...

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Nils Petter Molvær: Switch

Read "Switch" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


From his first major recording date almost thirty years ago, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær has been a unique innovator with a seemingly insatiable appetite for testing new waters. Beginning with Masquarelo's seminal ECM Records debut, Bande à Part (1985), Molvær joined with the already established bassist Arild Andersen and his long-time collaborator, drummer Jon Christensen. ...

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Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger

Read "Stranger" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The title of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's third album refers to strangers of two different sorts: those who were once strangers but became part of Chen's life, and those who took the reverse course. Chen notes that as a Taiwanese artist living in New York, she's often felt like a stranger herself. That may be the case, ...

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Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger

Read "Stranger" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The short version of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's biography: Born in Taiwan, started with music in the classical realm, moved to New York to study oboe and piano at Julliard School, and fell under the spell of jazz. That's not an unusual back story in the world of jazz, with the exception of her Taiwanese roots. The ...


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