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Jamie Ruben: Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene

Read "Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 27, 2011

With his debut album as leader, Canadian guitarist Jamie Ruben leads a quintet of Toronto's finest session and touring players in carving out a groove of relaxed and laidback light jazz on Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene. Inspired by the music of Medeski, Martin & Wood, The Bad Plus and the incomparable Frank Zappa, Ruben's music attempts a tasteful hybrid ...

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Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands

Read "With Many Hands" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 26, 2011

Dischi come questo fanno ben sperare per le sorti future del jazz. Vi si intravede una forte personalità musicale, che il ventitreenne contrabbassista di Atlanta esercita sia sul piano compositivo che su quello dell'organizzazione sonora. Intorno a lui cinque altrettanto giovani musicisti, pronti a portare entusiasmo e un trascinante groove contemporaneo, tra suoni acustici ed elettrici. ...

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Shana Tucker: Shine

Read "Shine" reviewed by Larry Reni Thomas

by Larry Reni Thomas
July 23, 2011

Shine is a bright, bluesy, jazzy album from the multitalented vocalist Shana Tucker. She also plays cello and guitar on this set of Tucker compositions, with insightful autobiographical titles like the upbeat “Fast Lane," with a great line “leave the porch light on," and the ever-moving “No Get Back (Together With Me)." These tunes, along with ...

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Gymnopedie

July 23, 2011

Album: Masked and Dreaming
By Tim Gerwing
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Duration: 04:13

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Ben Britton's Unconventional Riot: Children At Play

Read "Children At Play" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 22, 2011

The name of saxophonist Ben Britton's new outfit, Unconventional Riot, might suggest some hard-edged, in-your-face, Mostly Other People Do The Killing type of jazz. The title of the band's debut “mini album," Children At Play, is more indicative of a looser, lighter and less serious approach. The reality is somewhere in the middle--a tight, swinging trio ...

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Do You Ever Think About Me

July 22, 2011

Album: Karen Carroll Blues Collection
By Karen Carroll
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 04:16

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Sarah Marie Young: Expressive

Read "Expressive" reviewed by Alex Marianyi

by Alex Marianyi
July 21, 2011

Who needs a drummer, anyway? Not Sarah Marie Young. It's a certainty that the Chicago-based vocalist has nothing personal against drummers, but despite the absence of drums and percussion on Expressive, the rhythmic intensity, drive and energy they normally bring to the music are certainly not lacking. Expressive's tracks demonstrate considerable variety, from ...

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Dan Raphael / Rich Halley / Carson Halley: Children of the Blue Supermarket

Read "Children of the Blue Supermarket" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
July 19, 2011

The relationship between word and music dates back to before their appearance around the time of King David, who presided over the greatest union of the two, sang and probably danced to his own Psalms. According to John the Evangelist, in principio erat verbum--or, as the Latin from his most celebrated introduction to his Gospel--states, “At ...

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Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker

Read "Wingwalker" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 18, 2011

Nell'arte ci sono i geni che illuminano il proprio secolo, ma anche i grandi artisti che vivono una vita appartata lontani dai riflettori, in attesa che il grande pubblico gli riservi l'attenzione che meritano. A questa ristretta schiera appartiene Jane Ira Bloom, protagonista magnifica ma trascurata del jazz contemporaneo sia pur con ben quattordici dischi alle ...