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Charm: Charm

Read "Charm" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 27, 2014

Allievo di Roberto Bonati al conservatorio di Parma, pluripremiato, Alessandro Sgobbio è senza alcun dubbio un pianista straordinariamente dotato. Il problema è semmai che, come tanti altri strumentisti pieni di virtù tecnico-linguistiche, si accontenta un po' troppo di mostrarcelo. Questo lavoro, realizzato all'inizio del 2013 in trio con i francesi Xuan Lindenmeyer e Frédéric Chapperon, ci ...

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Alex Belhaj's Crescent City Quartet: Sugar Blues

Read "Sugar Blues" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 26, 2014

Trad jazz isn't trending on Twitter or climbing the charts, but that doesn't mean it's completely irrelevant in today's musical landscape. There's still a segment of people, both on the delivering and listening ends, who enjoy the way multiple horns can snake around one another in a polyphonic dance of joy, supported and driven by guitar ...

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Rachel Therrien: Home Inspiration

Read "Home Inspiration" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
November 25, 2014

Montreal-based trumpeter and composer Rachel Therrien's second album, Home Inspiration is a salutary reminder of something that the American jazz scene doesn't always seem to acknowledge--there's a thriving, young and imaginative jazz scene up north, in Canada. All the tunes on Home Inspiration are originals, with Therrien taking composer credit for around half of ...

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Pierre de Surgères: Krysis

Read "Krysis" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 25, 2014

Belgian pianist Pierre de Surgères is an autodidact musician who pursued a musical career only after he studied journalism and philosophy. So far, that career has been quite erratic, he attended master classes with diverse mentors such as Toots Thielemans and Anthony Braxton, launched a project dedicated to the provocative songs of Serge Gainsbourg, worked in ...

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Giorgio Occhipinti, Vittorino Curci, String Sextet: Mùseca Lundéne

Read "Mùseca Lundéne" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 25, 2014

Su testi di Vittorino Curci e musiche di Giorgio Occhipinti (qui insolitamente inoperoso come pianista), si sviluppa l'ora e venti abbondante di questo doppio CD, reperibile unicamente sulle varie piattaforme digitali, tipo iTunes, Spotify, Deezer et similia. L'impianto è squisitamente cameristico-contemporaneo, con il contralto di Curci come unico aggancio su atmosfere (e temperature) in qualche misura ...

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Pulsar

November 25, 2014

Album: Carousel
By Jonathan Curtis
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Duration: 03:31

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MoFrancesco Quintetto: Piedra Solar

Read "Piedra Solar" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
November 24, 2014

The instantly engaging “Ala'Ad-Din" opens this 70 minute set, the second album by this talented Lisbon-based group. A bass and piano riff confidently introduces “Abraxas" with unison horns taking up the main theme, leader Francesco Valente's electric bass to the fore and Brazilian guest percussionist Marcos Suzano playing pandeiro to great effect. Aline Frazão's ...

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Trio (Kenny Burrell)

November 24, 2014

Album: A Swing Jazz Trio (EP)
By Billy Ponzio
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 03:09

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Benny Bailey / Nashville Big Band: A Bird in the Hand

Read "A Bird in the Hand" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 23, 2014

To accentuate the positive: A Bird in the Hand is Georgia-based drummer Ben Bailey's debut album as a big-band leader, and a splendid one it is, thanks to Bailey's ample talents and those of the Nashville Big Band. The recording arose from a chance meeting in 2011 when another well-known timekeeper, Duffy Jackson, traveled to from ...

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Brad Gibson: Poontet

Read "Poontet" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 22, 2014

Seattle drummer Brad Gibson's second release as a leader Poontet is a spicy batch of soulful grooves that belong on the soundtrack of a 1970s gritty detective film. Heavily reliant on electric instrumentation and densely atmospheric these half a dozen tracks are short on improvisational rigor without being mundane. They also allow for some soloing room ...