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Article: Album Review

Alberto Cavenati: Lo spazio ai margini

Read "Lo spazio ai margini" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Lavoro di sensibilità centroeuropea, questo CD a firma del chitarrista Alberto Cavenati vede in scena un quintetto di ottimi musicisti nostrani, arricchiti dalla presenza della tromba di Ralph Alessi. Già il titolo dell'album e quello della traccia di apertura danno un'idea del progetto musicale: una ricerca sonora aperta, basata su strutture non standardizzate ...

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Article: Album Review

Lena Hovanesian: irwinorange

Read "irwinorange" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


In assigning colors to a musician's “sound," does alto saxophonist Lena Hovanesian blow orange? Maybe. On her debut CD, irwinorange, the title taken from the 2014 Franklin Evans' painting of the same name, Hovanesian's alto has a citrus-y tang, as she explores, sonically, her love of abstract art and natural beauty of Hawaii and her native ...

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Article: Album Review

Giancarlo Tossani Synapser + Alessi: Newswok

Read "Newswok" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Wonders never cease. When Newswok first arrived in the mail, my first question was not “What the hell does 'Newswok' mean?" It was “Who is Giancarlo Tossani, and why is Ralph Alessi playing with him?" I was also alarmed that I had never heard of the record label, Auand Records, before. This despite the fact that ...

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Article: Album Review

Yoosun Nam: Light Of the City

Read "Light Of the City" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It's a love story in essence: South Korean classical piano and vocal protégé with multiple competition wins, hears jazz in high school; picks up saxophone at nineteen and swaps university computer studies for music; then, as straight and true as Cupid's arrow, heads for Berklee College of Music; New York and a Master's degree in jazz ...

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Article: Film Review

Fred Hersch: My Coma Dreams

Read "Fred Hersch: My Coma Dreams" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Fred Hersch, Herschel GarfeinMy Coma Dreams Palmetto Records* * * ½ L'antefatto è il seguente: nel 2008 Fred Hersch, com'è noto da tempo affetto da AIDS, è stato colpito da una grave forma di polmonite, per cui i medici hanno deciso di porlo in uno stato di coma indotto in ...

Article: Interview

A dialogo con Alessandro Lanzoni

Read "A dialogo con Alessandro Lanzoni" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Classe 1992, Alessandro Lanzoni ha già alle spalle un percorso artistico di tutto rispetto, collaborazioni con artisti di primo piano (giovanissimo, aveva già registrato con Lee Konitz) e riconoscimenti importanti (lo scorso anno ha vinto il referendum di Musica Jazz come miglior nuovo talento italiano). Dopo averlo seguito in varie occasioni fin da quando ...

Article: Album Review

Alessandro Lanzoni: Seldom

Read "Seldom" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Un anno dopo Dark Flavour, che ha contribuito a fargli vincere il titolo di miglior nuovo talento italiano del 2013 nel referendum di Musica Jazz, Alessandro Lanzoni torna in sala di registrazione assieme a Matteo Bortone e Enrico Morello, ma stavolta si fa accompagnare anche uno dei più interessanti musicisti della scena internazionale, il trombettista Ralph ...

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News: Education

New England Conservatory Faculty Profile: Fred Hersch

New England Conservatory Faculty Profile: Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch has much to look forward to in his immediate future, including the premiere of a new extended composition and a variety of performances in the diverse solo and small-ensemble settings that have made him one of the major contemporary voices in jazz piano. Yet 2015 looms large in his mind for another reason. “It ...

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Article: Album Review

Tomas Sauter: Double Life

Read "Double Life" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Tomas Sauter, known heretofore as a fine guitarist, leads a quartet--Ralph Alessi, trumpet and bass; Luzius Schuler, electric keyboards; Dominik Burkhalter, drums--as an electric bassist on the intriguing album, Double Life. For those who are always looking for, and expecting, new sounds, this session will shock in how retro it sounds. The overall vibe ...


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