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Lars Fiil: Frit Fald (Free Fall)

Read "Frit Fald (Free Fall)" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Lars Fiil è un pianista danese non ancora trentenne che ha all'attivo un album di debutto con i fiocchi -Reconsideration è stato nominato per il Danish Music Award -con un quartetto vincitore dell'altrettanto prestigioso Young Danish Jazz Comets. Ma Fiil è anche e soprattutto un pianista/compositore di sorprendente maturità e originalità. Lo dimostra ampiamente con questo ...

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University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One 2014-15: Local Color

Read "Local Color" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

In Local Color, the latest in a long series of splendid albums by the University of Northern Iowa's Jazz Band One, color is one of the primary ingredients; every number, in fact, is awash in radiant colors, from the prismatic opener, UNI alum Michael Conrad's “Gerry's Timepiece," to the chimerical closer, Curtis Fuller's dark-hued “The Egyptian." ...

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How High the Moon

Album: You've Changed
By Dena Taylor
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Duration: 2:36

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Jim Wellman: Dawn to Dusk

Read "Dawn to Dusk" reviewed by Paul Naser

by Paul Naser

Jim Wellman, multi-instrumentalist and co-founding member of acid jazz outfit the Brand New Heavies, was all but done working in music when the idea for his latest release, Dawn to Dusk, gripped him and wouldn't let him go. According to him, after witnessing certain world events, in particular events in Ukraine, he “felt he had to ...

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Sitting Bull: Sitting Bull

Read "Sitting Bull" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The piano and percussion duo may be two-thirds of that most ubiquitous trio formation, but it is not often heard. Among those who have tackled this duo format are former Yes members, keyboardist Patrick Moraz and drummer Bill Bruford--both with solid jazz credentials--who had been down this road more than twenty years back with two E.G. ...

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Larry Brown Jr.: The Music and The Moment

Read "The Music and The Moment" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

With his second release as a leader The Music and the Moment guitarist Larry Brown Jr. deviates stylistically from his debut, the delightful and stimulating There Can Only Be One (Self Produced, 2011). While the previous record was firmly rooted in the hard bop mainstream spiced by various influences, the current one is an amalgam of ...

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Russ DeFilippis: The Sorcerer's Accomplice

Read "The Sorcerer's Accomplice" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Jazz guitarist and educator Russ DeFilippis from Stony Point, New York delivers his second album as leader with the appropriately titled The Sorcerer's Accomplice, a ten-piece project of smooth-styled jazz with a Brazilian flair. Why is the album title so apropos? In 2012, DeFilippis met fellow educator, composer and pianist Richard Sorce at a rehearsal of ...

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Suspicious Character

Album: Slow Burn
By Terry Bartolotta
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Duration: 7:18

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W&E Swing: Moonshine

Read "Moonshine" reviewed by Wade Luquet

by Wade Luquet

Through a chance meeting at a weekly jam session at Round Guys Brewery in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, a group of musicians became friends and began to gel as a group. The jam organizer Mike Mahomet, has a small recording studio blocks away and invited the talented group to record some tunes. The group known as W&E Swing ...

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Colin Cannon: Intermission (Farewell)

Read "Intermission (Farewell)" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Reading the spare (and tongue-in-cheek) liner notes of guitarist/composer Colin Cannon's Intermission (Farewell), one could easily get the idea that Cannon wrote, arranged and produced the album for a relatively small inner circle of friends, family and associates. Referring to that cohort, he writes, ..."and besides you people, I don't particular care who else listens to ...


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