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Ralph Towner / Paolo Fesu: Chiaroscuro

Read "Chiaroscuro" reviewed by Martin Gladu


In a stuffed, empty room, rays of moonlight spill through a cobwebbed window and come licking a tired hardwood floor to the feet of an old, stiff chair. On it, the silhouette of a guitar; its strings, silent. At its side, a second chair with an embossed trumpet planted alongside a lonely music stand completes the ...

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Nguyen Le: Signature Edition 1

Read "Signature Edition 1" reviewed by John Kelman


Few musicians embody the word “fusion" more than Parisian-born guitarist Nguyên Lê. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, for the past 25 years he's been mining a combination of fusion by the more conventional definition--the infusion of rock energy into the jazz sphere--with fusion in a broader sense, the seamless integration of music from cultures around the ...

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Yuri Goloubev: Of Chocolate Cake & Other Simple Metaphors

Read "Yuri Goloubev: Of Chocolate Cake & Other Simple Metaphors" reviewed by Ian Patterson


After a highly successful career in one of the world's greatest classical ensembles, the Moscow Soloists, Russian double-bassist Yuri Goloubev decided to turn his back entirely on this world to heed another calling: jazz.Responding to his lifelong passion, Goloubev established himself in Milan, Italy, where in the past five years he has ...

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Siegfried Loch: 50 Years on the Music-Making Scene

Read "Siegfried Loch: 50 Years on the Music-Making Scene" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


With a half-century in the music recording business, Siegfried Loch, known to friends and associates as Siggi, has had a huge impact on the jazz music scene in Europe. Jazz isn't the only thing he's been involved in as a producer over all those years, but having his own jazz label--ACT Music, based in Munich, Germany--was ...

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Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro

Read "Chiaroscuro" reviewed by John Kelman


Since moving to Italy over a decade ago, guitarist/pianist Ralph Towner's output as a leader has been woefully infrequent, with only two discs released this decade--2001's Anthem and 2006's Time Line, both on the label that's been his home for over 35 years, ECM. It's not that he hasn't been busy; he continues to work and ...

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Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro

Read "Chiaroscuro" reviewed by Thomas Conrad


After Enrico Rava, the most important trumpet player in Italy is Paolo Fresu. The fact that he is not well known in the United States may be about to change, because he is now an ECM recording artist. The label has placed him with major people: Carla Bley on The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu in ...

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Jazzitaliano Live 2009

Label: CGD East West
Released: 2009

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Ethos

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. The Fifth Season - tempo I°(Jenkins) 3.02; 2. Elettra’s Magic Stick (Marcotulli) 3.11; 3. Canto (Di Bonaventura) 4.59; 4. Elektriko (Salvatori) 3.00; 5. Gitanes (Mompou) 5.47; 6. Quartetto n.2 - tempo III° (Nyman) - 4.12; 7. Fratres (A.Part) - 11.15; 8. Andante dal concerto per armonica (Villa Lobos) 7.43; 9. Veronica (Peana) 3.55; 10. Forever (Berovski) 4.54; 11). Le temp qui change (Salvatori) 4.33; 12. Fur Alina (A.Part) 7.20.

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Think

Label: CGD East West
Released: 2009

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European Jazz Expo in Cagliari, Sardinia

Read "European Jazz Expo in Cagliari, Sardinia" reviewed by Olga Zhuravleva


European Jazz ExpoCagliari, Sardinia November 20-22, 2009 The hot summer slowdown is finished for Sardinia. Quietness and sophisticated melancholy embraced the island and made it a perfect place for jazz. From November 20th to 22 the Sardinian capital Cagliari hosted the annual jazz festival, known for the last five years ...


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