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Blameful Isles: Strange But Not Entirely Unattractive

Read "Strange But Not Entirely Unattractive" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
August 21, 2016

Essentially a one-man-band based in Sweden, Blameful Isles is one of many artists who are actively rediscovering and re-processing the sounds of the early jazz-rock movement of the 1970s. Overall, the ongoing re-vitalization of jazz-rock and fusion has been a really good thing. For audiences of a certain age, the mere sound of a real Fender ...

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Mats Gustafsson: MG50 Peace & Fire

Read "MG50 Peace & Fire" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 12, 2016

Mats Gustafsson at fifty. Name another artist who has had this significant and widespread effect on jazz, noise, free improvisation, alternative rock, electronica, and free jazz. Besides John Zorn, that pool is quite shallow. Gustafsson's music seems to attract innovative players into imaginative situations. If you are a fan, this 50th birthday celebration recorded in October, ...

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Johan Moir Ensemble: Chasing Shadows

Read "Chasing Shadows" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 8, 2016

The five musicians of Swedish Johan Moir ensemble met at the Academy of Music and Drama of Göteborg. Moir is the bassist, the composer and the director of HearHere Records. His ensemble debut album features his partner, vocalist Casey Moir, who also plays with him in the group Svelia and the duo Mother Jack; saxophonist Malin ...

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Alberto Pinton e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
July 8, 2016

All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Alberto Pinton: Intenzione e ambizione di creare musica mia, che rifletta la mia esperienza personale, quello che jazz, composizione e improvvisazione significano per me. AAJI: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. A.P.: Totale libertà espressiva, modestia artistica, ...

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Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo: Resiliency

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by Alberto Bazzurro
July 6, 2016

Fra reminiscenze dolphyane, in particolare quando imbraccia il clarinetto basso, o piuttosto riconducibili all'Original Quartet ornettiano, per l'estetica complessiva, Alberto Pinton si ricollega in maniera nient'affatto supina o scontata alle fonti di quell'avanguardia storica (nonché, ovviamente, storicizzata) a cui evidentemente sente di appartenere. Dei sei brani complessivi, ripresi nel corso di un'esibizione al ...

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Guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos Releases "In The North" - Out Now

June 30, 2016

In the North is the third album by guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos and his first since his relocation from London to Stockholm. Originally from Athens, Greece, Tassos Spiliotopoulos spent the better part of twelve years living in London and establishing a solid reputation as one of the most exciting, up-and-coming guitarists in the UK Jazz scene. He ...

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Five New From Konvoj Records

by Mark Corroto
June 16, 2016

If you are a free jazz fanatic, you probably look for those out-of-print vinyl offerings from labels like Hat Hut, FMP, Sonet, and El Saturn Records. Sadly, you would have to be either independently wealthy or Mats Gustafsson to acquire the rarest of the rare music. But take heart, there are small labels producing the free ...

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Lina Nyberg: Aerials

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by Eyal Hareuveni
April 20, 2016

There are very few musicians who dare to expand their artistic vision with every new project as Swedish vocalist-songwriter-composer Lina Nyber. Aerials, is the her second installment in a trilogy of albums that offers her unique perspective about the world, the elements and the music itself. Nyberg began the trilogy with the double album The Sirenades ...

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Per Gärdin/Rodrigo Pinheiro/Marco Franco/Travassos: Oblique Mirrors

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by Mark Corroto
April 9, 2016

Listening to the free improvisation recording, Oblique Mirrors brings to mind a most memorable line from the film The Usual Suspects, where Kevin Spacey as Roger “Verbal" Kint says, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone." Maybe its the evanescent nature ...

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Alberto Pinton/Noi Siamo: Resiliency

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by Mark Corroto
March 18, 2016

In the old days, before clouds, streaming music, and compact discs, the first track from reedist Alberto Pinton's latest release Resiliency would encompass an entire side of a vinyl LP. Maybe we should consider the past when listening to this release by his quartet, Noi Siamo. The disc, recorded live at Stockholm's Glenn Miller ...