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Russ Lossing: Drum Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'evanescente intimismo e l'obliqua semplicità delle composizioni di Paul Motian, continuano a ispirare i protagonisti delle ultime generazioni. Dopo Joel Harrison e il gruppo Motian Sickness (Maneri, Masefield, Hebert e Cosgrove - leggi la recensione di For the Love of Sarah) ecco un altro lavoro organico, proposto da uno dei pianisti più originali del jazz contemporaneo. ...
Denny Zeitlin: Wherever You Are--Midnight Moods for Solo Piano
by Dan McClenaghan
There's something magnificent about a top-level artist alone with a piano, immersed in a mood of quiet nights, under quiet stars. Denny Zeitlin, a versatile music maker who wrote the electro-acoustic symphonic soundtrack for the 1978 remake of the science fiction classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, has released a handful of excellent trio albums on ...
Maria Neckam: Unison
by Hrayr Attarian
Vienna native and New York-based vocalist, composer and lyricist Maria Neckam is one of those rare artists whose work is accessible without being ordinary, and cerebral without being abstruse. Her third release as a leader, Unison, has both artistic originality and commercial appeal and may be the magnum opus of her short career so far.
Wayne Escoffery: The Only Son of One
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Not since the works of bassist Charles Mingus and saxophonist John Coltrane has there been music so charged with emotion and so engulfed in spirituality as The Only Son of One, an album that bleeds with raw sentiment as it bares the soul of its young saxophonist and composer, Wayne Escoffery, and ultimately brings much catharsis ...
Miles Okazaki: Figurations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Guitarist Miles Okazaki's Figurations is a fascinating document of how musical invention takes place on the spur of the moment. It is not a mad conglomeration of notes that come out in jagged clusters, but a mellifluous harmolodic excursion by four spectacular musicians as they begin to create music on each of their instruments, with their ...
Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos: Carrera
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In his first recording since the magnificent arrangements of music of by Cuchi Leguizamon, Domador de Huellas (Sunnyside 2010), pianist Guillermo Klein has reassembled his main musical vehicle, Los Guachos, for Carrera. Here, Klein once again shows why he is such a master of manipulating the voices of the instruments he uses, bringing out subtle variations ...
Ben Riley: Grown Folks Music
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ben Riley is best-described as a drummer who has always been the epitome of great taste, elegance and almost certainly possessed of a higher musical intelligence. There is no better recommendation for this than the fact that Thelonious Monk hired him as a drummer, but if further proof were requested , then all that needs doing ...
Maria Neckam: Unison
by Dan Bilawsky
Sophisticated pop, art song and modern jazz don't often get along, but vocalist Maria Neckam is the tie that binds them. The Austrian-born, New York-based Neckam turned plenty of heads with Deeper (Sunnyside, 2010), which featured her entrancing soprano and showcased her strong songwriting skills; she returns with an equally engaging program on her sophomore outing ...
Scott Dubois: Landscape Scripture
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Guitarist, Scott DuBois has taken a masterly turn with Landscape Scripture, an extended piece that carries aural impressions of one of Claude Monet's famous series of paintings, Haystacks." The renowned French master had conceived of his pastoral exhibit in a series of 25 canvases that looked at the iconic sculptures of hay at different times of ...
Dan Tepfer: Goldberg Variations / Variations
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trent'anni, newyorchese nato e cresciuto a Parigi da genitori americani, Dan Tepfer ha una formazione classica, collaborazioni con jazzisti di prim'ordine e già vari dischi a proprio nome (tra i quali Duos with Lee in duo con Lee Konitz e Five Pedals Deep). Qui il pianista si rimette alla prova con un progetto singolare, affrontando le ...


