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Article: Album Review

Rich Halley 4: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Rich Halley and Michael Vlatkovich have been on a real hot streak as of late. Halley, who also runs the Pine Eagle record label, continues to maintain a number a groups. Besides the quartet featured on Eleven, he has a new quartet with the excellent LA-based trumpeter Dan Clucas, and continues to work with the legendary ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Poker di Jon Irabagon

Read "Poker di Jon Irabagon" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Il jazz di oggi è sicuramente policentrico, continuando in questo la sua stratificata tradizione. Sempre più spazio trovano artisti americani di origini diverse. Tra essi, il sassofonista Jon Irabagon (sangue filippino) è emerso da un decennio con una forza dirompente, conseguenza di una preparazione enciclopedica, tradotta abilmente in un'ampia gamma di situazioni sonore.

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Article: Album Review

Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet: You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?

Read "You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?: not just a groovy album title, but wise words of advice. Saxophonist and bandleader Derek Nash clearly takes this advice to heart, crafting an album that's filled with eminently dig-able music. The advice that inspires Nash and his fellow players, as well as inspiring ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two Simultaneous Jon Irabagon Releases: Quartet & Solo

Read "Two Simultaneous Jon Irabagon Releases: Quartet & Solo" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Saxophonist Jon Irabagon has worked in a wide variety of settings, including Mostly Other People Do The Killing, the Mary Halvorson Quintet, Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, and the Dave Douglas Quintet. For the 2015 release on his own Irabbagast Records label he released two records on the same day: Behind the Sky, with his quartet plus ...

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Article: Interview

Intervista a Rosario Di Rosa

Read "Intervista a Rosario Di Rosa" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Siciliano di Vittoria, Rosario Di Rosa è un pianista e compositore che negli ultimi anni ha proposto progetti sempre molto interessanti, originali e lontani dai cliché più abusati. Non fa eccezione il suo ultimo disco Pop Corn Reflections, uscito per la NAU Records, che stupisce anche conoscendo altri suoi lavori: si tratta infatti di un piano ...

Article: Live Review

Lagarina Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Lagarina Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Paolo Peviani

by Paolo Peviani

Villa Lagarina, Isera, Ala, Mori -06-22.08.2015 Il jazz, come la vita, è l'arte dell'improvvisazione, dell'incontro. E come la vita, si nutre del rapporto -a volte conflittuale, a volte di fruttuosa collaborazione -tra le diverse generazioni. All'esplorazione di tale rapporto, naturalmente nelle sue forme più positive e produttive, era dedicato il ...

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Article: Album Review

Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella: Wild Dance

Read "Wild Dance" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The senior statesman, and easily the most recognizable name in Italian jazz, trumpeter Enrico Rava returns with a revised quintet line up on Wild Dance. Rava, who early in his career worked with saxophonist Steve Lacy, pianist Mal Waldron and trombonist Roswell Rudd, later went on to team with drummer Tony Oxley and sit in with ...

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Article: Album Review

Agusti Fernandez / Zlatko Kaučič: Sonic Party

Read "Sonic Party" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Sonic Party documents a live meeting between Catalan pianist Agusti Fernandez and Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaucic. Unlike similar encounters with his countryman Ramon Lopez, all the selections here are generated on the fly. Such pairings accentuate the percussive nature of the piano, and all the more so because Fernandez is one of the greatest proponents of ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Criscuolo: Headin’ Out

Read "Headin’ Out" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Un ben amalgamato, efficiente quartetto con la chitarra di Tony Purrone (suoi anche due dei nove temi in scaletta, “Karma at Dharma" e “R 510 Select") come strumento armonico, firma questo nuovo album (dovrebbe trattarsi del sesto) di Matt Criscuolo. Non aspettatevi novità sconvolgenti, o tratti di particolare originalità, ma una musica del tutto onesta suonata ...

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Article: Album Review

Jorrit Dijkstra: Music for Reeds and Electronics - Oakland

Read "Music for Reeds and Electronics - Oakland" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Il sassofonista e compositore olandese Jorrit Dijkstra, classe 1966, da anni negli States e allievo di Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg e Bob Brookmeyer, presenta in questo lavoro una serie di composizioni per quintetto di sole ance, nelle quali però sperimenta anche l'uso dell'elettronica. Al suo fianco troviamo musicisti importanti, tra i quali spicca--specie ...


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