Teeming with energy and ideas, eager to learn and anxious to show how they've educated themselves, Planet Safety evinces a healthy respect for the jazz tradition. Significantly, that reverence includes recognition for the masters from whom they learned and who gained their lofty stature--in part, by breaking free of established tradition. Keyboardist Leo Genovese, ...

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Giorgio Gaslini: Fonte funda suite

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 3, 2008

È un disco che può essere elevato a simbolo della più che quarantennale creatività gasliniana, in bilico tra più suggestioni (jazz e musica contemporanea) e linguaggi (il cinema). Un‘opera che ne testimonia ancora una volta l’inesauribile disposizione alla sperimentazione, in cui il leader si mette per l’ennesima volta alla prova come pianista (tracce 1-7) e leader ...

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Nobu Stowe: An die Musik

Read "An die Musik" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
August 16, 2008

Knowledge is hierarchical and contextual, with the need of integrating the new into the old without contradiction. Furthermore, conclusions reached must also be contextual, meaning that they are conditioned by the state of the knowledge from which they are drawn. What does this have to do with pianist Nobu Stowe and An Die ...

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Nobu Stowe: An die Musik

Read "An die Musik" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton
July 19, 2008

No decisions about a recording should ever be made based on the first few sounds that are heard. Even though An die Musik from Japanese pianist Nobu Stowe begins with a restfully melodic and dramatic three-minute piano and drum duet, it moves quickly and assuredly into a vibrant and emotive rhythmic set of improvisations. These possess ...