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Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: Sélébéyone

Read "Sélébéyone" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Steve Lehman's critically acclaimed albums have been topping national polls for more than half a decade. It's all the more an achievement when considering Lehman's unique, cerebral and ever-changing approach to artistic creation. His most recent project, Sélébéyone takes its name from this new group that Lehman founded in 2015. It incorporates elements of spectral music--where ...

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Steve Lehman: Sélébéyone

Read "Sélébéyone" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The remastered edition of the Beastie Boys disc Check Your Head (Capitol, 2009) has a bonus disc with a live track from Budokan, Japan. A Japanese rapper, MC Poo, raps “Microphone Check" in broken English before continuing on in Japanese. Without the language, he knew what the Beasties were about and also without the Japanese language, ...

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The Inner Spectrum of Variables

Read "The Inner Spectrum of Variables" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Ok, proviamoci. Proviamo a parlare di questo disco uscendo dalle convenzioni che di solito si adottano quando ci si pone di fronte a un percorso musicale come quello di Tyshawn Sorey. Sorey non dovrebbe avere bisogno di troppe presentazioni. Oddio, magari in un'Italia del jazz mediamente poco curiosa di quello che sta oltre ...

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Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables

Read "The Inner Spectrum of Variables" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Tyshawn Sorey has realized a career's worth of accomplishments, accolades and appointments despite a professional resume that--with the exception of Vijay Iyer's Blood Sutra (Artist House, 2003)--is not quite ten years in the making. On the verge of his doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University, he has composed almost two-hundred works, and received the 2015 ...

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Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs

Read "Old Locks and Irregular Verbs" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Il criterio dell'integrazione a coppie di strumenti omologhi o affini è uno degli aspetti che maggiormente caratterizzano la musica di Henry Threadgill. Già nel gruppo Very Very Circus si incontrava il raddoppio di chitarra e tuba, mentre l'impianto di Zooid, nato come sestetto in cui si specchiavano chitarra acustica e oud da un lato, violoncello e ...

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Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks And Irregular Verbs

Read "Old Locks And Irregular Verbs" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Here, one modern era jazz innovator pays homage to another modern era jazz innovator. The premise for this album is framed on Henry Threadgill's friendship and admiration to the late composer-conductor Butch Morris who cunningly established a new twist on large ensemble conduction processes. And the Ensemble Double Up is viewed as an extension to Threadgill's ...

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Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Read "Vista Accumulation" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


L'elenco delle formazioni a cui ha prestato i propri servigi è da paura comprendendo, tra gli altri, Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Dave Douglas Quintet, Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, ossia una bella fetta della scena avant jazz statunitense, ma come leader il pianista Matt Mitchell è solo alla seconda prova. Vista Accumulation, che giunge ...

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Dan Weiss: Sixteen: Drummers Suite

Read "Sixteen: Drummers Suite" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Sixteen, ossia il numero di componenti -alcuni usuali collaboratori del leader altri scelti appositamente per l'occasione, tutti comunque musicisti dalla mente aperta e dalle larghe visioni -dell'ensemble allestito da Dan Weiss per omaggiare alcuni dei più grandi batteristi della storia del jazz. Una “Drummers suite" per l'appunto, ma non pensate ad una carrellata di stili o ...

Article: Album Review

Jen Shyu and Jade Tongue: Sounds and Cries of the World

Read "Sounds and Cries of the World" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Nota al pubblico del jazz per la decennale collaborazione con Steve Coleman (ma l'abbiamo ascoltata anche con Anthony Braxton, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter e altri nomi di primo piano), Jen Shyu è strumentista e vocalist d'impronta sperimentale, che trae ispirazione da ricerche d'etno-musicologia presso popolazioni tradizionali del Centro e Sud America ma soprattutto di Cina, Sud ...

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Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks And Irregular Verbs

Read "Old Locks And Irregular Verbs" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The premiere of Old Locks and Irregular Verbs--Henry Threadgill's tribute to his longtime friend and colleague, musical pioneer Lawrence D. “Butch" Morris--was easily one of the most talked about events at the 2014 edition of New York's Winter Jazzfest. The buzz factor and expectation surrounding this work and the band performing it was so strong, in ...


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