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Taking stock, a year half over
by Mark Corroto
This month, at the halfway point in the year of music, we are taking stock, and there have been so many great discs released. Here is my list (in no particular order) of the best albums so far. I predict many of these will make final top ten 2013 lists. Sorry, I couldn't keep my list ...
Back In The Mix
By Dan Wilensky
Label: Polyglot Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Back In The Mix; Hand In Hand; Tenderly; Here; Just Happy; Lament; Falling In Love With Love; Kenai; After
All Is Said And Done
Dan Wilensky: Back In The Mix
by Dan Bilawsky
Thirteen years separated the release of tenor saxophonist Dan Wilensky's first two albums-- And Then Some (Speechless, 1997) and If You Only Knew (Speechless, 2010)--but the saxophonist wasn't sitting around idly during that stretch of time. Wilensky's work as a session player, touring musician, author, and educator kept him beyond busy, yet his own music suffered ...
New Dan Wilensky Quartet Record: "Back In The Mix"
Dan Wilensky's Back In The Mix features Mark Soskin (piano), Dean Johnson (bass), Tony Moreno (drums), and special guest Russ Johnson (trumpet) in a musical tour de force. Wilensky's 4th recording as a leader includes new arrangements of Cole Porter's “Falling In Love With Love," Gross and Lawrence's “Tenderly," “Lament" by the great J.J. Johnson, and ...
The Master and the Rain
By Russ Johnson
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
1. Ogoni (Meier) - 6:51; 2. The Forbidden Land (Meier) - 2:49; 3. No Agreement (Kuti) - 9:18; 4. Camel Dance (McGregor) - 4:00; 5. The Veil (Meier) - 1:47; 6. The Root (Meier) - 4:29; 7. Across The Sands (Meier) - 2:48; 8. The Bride (McGregor) - 6:33; 9. The Rain Part II (Meier) - 5:49;
10. Jackals, Children, Everything (Meier) - 4:15; 11. Invocation (Meier) - 2:55; 12. Colonial Mentality (Kuti) - 8:38; 13. The Master (Meier) - 9:55.
Tommy Meier Root Down: The Master and the Rain
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se nello specchietto retrovisore si stagliano le sagome di Fela Kuti e Chris McGregor, se prima si tira in ballo l'Andrew Hill di Compulsion e poi si chiamano a raccolta i Masters Musicians of Jajouka, è chiaro che si sta parlando d'Africa. L'Africa vista dalla Svizzera, e raccontata dai Root Down, ovvero l'orchestra varata nel 2004 ...
John McNeil's Backbone
by Ben Waltzer
Like many trumpeters, John McNeil has a unique brand above his upper lip where flesh meets metal. It looks like a setting sun, and was visible from up close, as he removed his instrument from his mouth, rose steadily from his stool, and grasped the microphone. “This is the part of any jazz ...
Requiem
By Russ Johnson
Label: Plein Sud
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Night-time, Daytime Requiem Pt. 1 - 7:53;
02. Night-time, Daytime Requiem Pt. 2 - 4:49;
03. Night-time, Daytime Requiem Pt. 3 - 5:44;
04. Ballad For Bernt - 6:22;
05. Dirge For Europe - 4:29;
06. Astigmatic - 9:18;
07. Elutka (Winnicki) - 4:01;
08. Prayer And Question - 4:22;
09. Litania - 6:20;
10. Anubis (Winnicki).
Tutti i brani sono di Krzysztof Komeda eccetto dove indicato.
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If
by Bruce Lindsay
Ken Thomson, New York based saxophonist and composer, describes the music of Slow/Fast as “21st Century Third Stream." It's an apposite description, for it certainly brings together elements of jazz and classical music, but it underplays the third element of Slow/Fast's sound--the influence of rock. All four members of Slow/Fast, heard on the band's debut, It ...
Komeda Project: Requiem
by Stuart Broomer
Krzysztof Komeda is a figure of immense significance in Polish jazz, in effect the musician who both gave it its original authentic voice and marked its place in the world. In the 15 years before his death in 1969, Komeda was active as bandleader and film composer, scoring films by Roman Polanski like Two Men and ...
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