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Dick Wood: Not Far from Here

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La foto di copertina sembra portare dritti dritti verso morbide atmosfere, languide ballad, rassicuranti scenari smooth jazz, filodiffusione in alberghi di lusso. Niente di più errato perché la musica contenuta in Not Far from Here ha lo stesso rapporto con il jazz patinato e di maniera che ha il diavolo con l'acqua santa. Not Far from ...

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Skaller / Holt Duo: Music of Mark Dresser

Read "Music of Mark Dresser" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This duo's first album focuses on a selection of progressive jazz and improvising bass great Mark Dresser's compositions. Known as a first-call session ace, mainly for projects that skirt the boundaries of jazz amid avant-garde inclined encounters, Dresser is also a heralded solo artist. Here, Phillip Skaller and Danny Holt's shrewd integration of pianos, celeste and ...

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Dick Wood: Not Far From Here

Read "Not Far From Here" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


California reed man Dck Wood's heterogeneous union of influences from New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, John Cage and a consortium of other luminaries are rather subliminally packaged throughout this audacious studio date. Here, the artist gives the always-thriving West Coast progressive-jazz scene yet another jolt, as his semi-structured arrangements are fashioned with shadowy song-forms, peppered with dissonant ...

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Call & Response & Friends

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Benjamin Called; 02. I Wish; 03. Tumbleweed; 04. Early Wednesday morning; 05. Veterans Hospital; 06. Mendocino Coast 1967; 07. Merry Christmas, Michael; 08. Two Henny Youngman Poems; 09. This Winter; 10. Two Appropriations; 11. The Two Times I Loved You The Most In a Car; 12. Two Poems About Trucks; 13. Africa; 14. Melting Pot; 15. Zoey Steps Out; 16. Quotation; 17.Little Rock; 18.Two More Henny Youngman Poems ; 19. Helicopter Noise; 20. This Is What I Do Best; 21. The People Who Hate Wind; 22. Just Before; 23. Noon Concert; 24. Another Nose Poem; 25. Definition of Happiness/If I Were Directing This Movie; 26. From Iceland; 27. Alaska; 28. What Henny Youngman Loves Most About America; 29. Vince Salvino; 30. Fortune Cookie; 31. Henny Youngman's True Confession; 32. Sorry To Disappoint You; 33. Future Past; 34. Mark Weber-Type Poem.

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Not Far From Here

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2011

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Kronomorfic: Micro Temporal Infundibula

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2011
Track listing: Deprong Mori ; Tehuantepec ; Perambulate ; Dendochrone Currents ; Gnomon ; Repolarization ; Jeannot's Knife ; Autopoiesis ; Ossuary.

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Call & Response & Friends: Call & Response & Friends

Read "Call & Response & Friends" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dottie Grossman, moglie di Richard, grande pianista prematuramente scomparso nel 1992, è poetessa la cui prosa Allen Ginsberg ha definito: “chiara, particolare, personale, divertente, selvaggia, curiosa e lucida". Michael Vlatkovich è trombonista, compositore, arrangiatore leader di alcuni quotati ensemble e collaboratore ad ampio spettro artistico, da Rova Saxophone Quartet a Bryan Adams, da Gerry Hemingway a ...

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Kronomorfic: Micro Temporal Infundibula

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KronomorficMicro Temporal InfundibulapfMentum2011 Kronomorfic, based in Southern California, is a group of virtuoso improvisers, all blending their individual talents toward a greater ensemble aesthetic. Co-led by Los Angeles drummer/hand percussionist Paul Pellegrin and San Diego saxophonist David Borgo, Kronomorfic synthesizes the ancient with the future--using very complex ...

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Challenge

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2010


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