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Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile

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by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2018

Con il consueto ritardo (tempo tecnico di maturazione lo definirebbe qualcuno di più diplomatico) anche il mondo globalizzato del jazz si sta accorgendo del talento di Shabaka Hutchings. Chi bazzica infatti il jazz europeo più vivace non può non avere notato da tempo il sassofonista inglese, con i The Comet Is Coming, con Louis Moholo, con ...

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Various Artists: We Out Here

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by Chris May
February 24, 2018

This vivid snapshot of young London's jazz scene, featuring nine bands and a collective pool of 35 musicians, contains close to an hour of daring and uplifting music--from rebooted spiritual-jazz through abstract experimentation to Afrobeat-flavoured dancefloor urgency, a rich mix further enlivened by shots of grime, hip hop and funk. It was recorded over three days ...

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Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile

Read "Your Queen Is A Reptile" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 21, 2018

It is appropriate that this, British-based Sons of Kemet's third album, should be released under the Impulse banner. During its heyday, Impulse was the home of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and as such was the chief platform for the cosmic/spiritual jazz movement of the 1960s and 1970s and that movement's demand for white-majority ...

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Zara McFarlane: Arise

by Phil Barnes
November 10, 2017

Zara McFarlane's If You Knew Her from 2014 promised much, being a wonderful, individual, mixture of jazz, reggae and soul that viewed the singer's Jamaican roots through the prism of her UK birth and London upbringing. It was an original blend that signaled the arrival of a major talent on the UK scene, setting a path ...

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Luciano Linzi - Direttore artistico di JazzMI

by Paolo Peviani
October 23, 2017

Milano ha sempre ospitato numerose iniziative e rassegne in ambito jazzistico. Più o meno strutturate, più o meno significative. Per molti anni, tuttavia, alla città è mancato un vero e proprio festival. Una lacuna non da poco per una città di grandi ambizioni, che ama confrontarsi e competere con le principali capitali europee. ...

Article: Live Review

Udin&Jazz 2017

by Neri Pollastri
July 18, 2017

Udine Udin&Jazz 2017 Varie sedi 4-8.7.2017 Era dedicata alle contaminazioni con la musica etnica l'edizione 2017 di Udin&Jazz, la ventisettesima della rassegna friulana sottotitolata “EthnoShock!." Come al solito ampio spazio era riservato alle eccellenti proposte più recenti dei musicisti del nord est italiano. Proprio un paio di queste hanno fatto ...

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Like A Jazz Machine 2017

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2017

Like A Jazz Machine Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz Dudelange, Luxembourg May 25-28, 2017 Size, as Like A Jazz Machine knows, isn't everything. The audience in the Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz amounts to just four seated rows downstairs, with a small standing section to the rear, and ten rows ...

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The Comet Is Coming at Black Box

by Ian Patterson
May 8, 2017

The Comet Is Coming Black Box 18th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Belfast, N.Ireland May 3, 2017 The Comet Is Coming knows how to make an entrance. Even the electronic sci-fi effects that kick-started its Black Box concert like some futuristic fanfare was loud enough to send vibrations through every ...

Article: Year in Review

Il meglio del 2016 secondo Enrico Bettinello

by AAJ Staff
January 5, 2017

Cristiano Calcagnile Multikulti Cherry On (Caligola Records) The Dwarfs of East Agouza Bes (Nawa) Alexander Hawkins, Evan Parker Leaps In Leicester (Clean Feed Records) Hobby Horse Rocketdine (Parco della Musica Records) Rob Mazurek & São Paulo Underground Cantos Invisiveis (Cuneiform ...

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