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Sean Noonan's Brewed by Noon: Boxing Dreams
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nonostante che i fondamenti della psicologia freudiana sostengano che non è possibile guidare i propri sogni, Sean Noonan immagina - attraverso la scrittura di questo CD - l'epopea di se stesso nei panni di un improbabile boxeur. E realizza 11 episodi in cui cerca continuamente la forma della canzone rock. L'epica accade in “Courage," dedicata a ...
Mikkel Ploug - Sissel Vera Pettersen - Joachim Badenhorst: Equilibrium
by AAJ Italy Staff
Eterei ma mai algidi, arditi nel creare ambientazioni sospese e melodie intricate, ma sempre a debita distanza da ogni rischio di manierismo. Mikkel Ploug, Sissel Vera Pettersen e Joachim Badenhorst hanno dato vita a un album invernale e trasparente, un esperimento sonoro che, con quel titolo così esplicito, Equilibrium, pare occhieggiare alla natura dell'infinito. L'equilibrio in ...
The October Trio + Brad Turner: Looks Like It’s Going to Snow
by AAJ Italy Staff
«Moods and Colours of a Vancouver Autumn». Sì, potrebbe essere questa frase, scritta tra le note di copertina da Greg Buium, a fotografare l'attitudine dell'October Trio. Potrebbe, appunto. Perché se da una parte il suono di Looks Like It's Going to Snow rispecchia i colori tenui di uno scenario nordico, limpido e malinconico, dall'altra mette in ...
Gordon Grdina's East Van Strings: The Breathing of Statues
by Matt Marshall
Guitarist/oudist Gordon Grdina has gathered a marvelous string trio to fulfill a longtime desire of producing music in the mode of Béla Bartók. The compositions on The Breathing of Statues were written specifically for the trio involved--violinist Jesse Zubot, violist Eyvind Kang and cellist Peggy Lee--after Grdina had played with them freely. Grdina's writing then served ...
James Carney: Ways & Means
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist James Carney takes the parameters involved in scoring films and applies them with the discipline of a jazz composer on the ambitious Ways & Means, the kind of challenging and cohesive work that listeners have come to expect from this exemplary musician. Carney's band is as great a gathering of talent as ...
Ryan Blotnick: Everything Forgets
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Guitarist Ryan Blotnick has been intermittently active in New York for years now, but since the release of his debut recording as a leader, Music Needs You, his activities have taken him throughout the world, with his own groups and also with Michael Blake, Pete Robbins and Kresten Osgood. Blotnick's second record, Everything ...
James Carney Group: Ways & Means
by Jerry D'Souza
Keyboardist James Carney framed the compositions on this recording from a cinematic perspective. Three of the tunes are improvisations and Carney succeeds with both his stances. He and his artful band bring in plenty of drama, a sense of adventure and pure emotional force. Carney is an accomplished pianist who finds his groove in ...
James Carney Group: Ways & Means
by Matt Marshall
It's good to see the jazz community is not shying away from pressing political and social issues of the day. Guitarist Brad Shepik, with his Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009), and drummer Alex Cline, with Continuation (Cryptogramophone, 2009), have both made musical pleas for the environment in 2009, following in the socially conscious footsteps of Max ...
Andy Milne / Benoit Delbecq: Where is Pannonica?
by George Kanzler
Occasioned by a commission from Chamber Music America's French-America Jazz Exchange and realized during a three-week composing/recording residency at the Banff Centre in Canada in 2008, this is a fascinating project, pushing the boundaries of the piano duo format. Using Steinway D grands that were often--mostly in Benoit Delbecq's case--altered with prepared devices (objects on strings) ...
James Carney Group: Ways & Means
by Troy Collins
Inspired by his work scoring Edward Sloman's 1925 silent film, His People, for the Syracuse International Film Festival in 2006, New York-based keyboardist James Carney continued to explore the narrative potential of cinematic structures. Funded in part by commissions from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Carney produced Ways & Means, a “virtual ...
