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Frequency: Frequency
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Thrill Jockey torna a puntare sul jazz e lo fa con il debutto di un quartetto che unisce alcune interessanti personalità della scena di Chicago: Frequency, questo il nome di disco e formazione, riunisce il sassofonista Edward Wilkerson [che molti ricorderanno negli 8 Bold Souls], la giovane flautista Nicole Mitchell - che all'interno dell'AACM riveste ...
Tortoise: A Lazarus Taxon
by AAJ Staff
Tortoise celebrates its fourteenth anniversary this year with this four-disc box set of rarities and live performances, and it's just as strong as any other release the group has put out. That's saying something, given the quality of what the Chicago outfit has put on wax. Critics and fans have always struggled with a way to ...
Frequency: Frequency
by James Taylor
Frequency's story is as much about the players as the music. The group is made up of former 8 Bold Soul members Harrison Bankhead and Edward Wilkerson, Sun Ra collaborator Avreeayl Ra, and Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) co-president Nicole Mitchell--Chicago jazz luminaries with substantial pedigrees. The group's eponymous release for the Chicago ...
Frequency: Frequency
by Troy Collins
Frequency is the self-titled debut of a Chicago-based avant-garde jazz supergroup that spans multiple generations. Combining written material and free improvisation in equal measure, this ensemble eschews stylistic boundaries. Building upon a deep AACM heritage, Frequency makes “Great Black Music, Ancient to the Future" more than just a slogan. Multi-instrumentalist Edward Wilkerson makes a ...
Extra Golden: Ok-Oyot System
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Otieno Jagwasi is the quintessential benga musician. Born in Kenya's western Luo-speaking Nyanza Province, the cradle of the local style, he was a child prodigy on the fiddle-like orutu, which, when transposed to electric guitar, became the substrate of benga. He played with Circle K, a band that split off from benga godfather D.O. Misiani's Shirati ...
Howe Gelb: 'Sno Angel Like You
by AAJ Italy Staff
Howe Gelb 'Sno Angel Like You Thrill Jockey (2006 - distr. Wide) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle A molti sarà capitato di assaggiare un vino che viene servito come una delle più straordinarie meraviglie dell'arte enologica, di quelli di cui “gli intenditori" si riempiono la bocca, vezzosamente protesa verso il piacere, lasciandolo vagare come risacca pigra per il ...
Aki Tsuyuko: Hokane
by AAJ Staff
The visual element in Aki Tsuyuko's music, amply emphasized in the shiny 48-page hardcover book of drawings that comes with Hokane, presents itself almost immediately in the swirling mist that opens the record. Step into the fairy land, beckons Tsuyuko, and let me be your guide. But her music would be far better suited for a ...
Chicago Underground Duo: In Praise of Shadows
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sin dai loro primi lavori il Chicago Underground Duo è apparso come un nucleo sonoro - da cui si dipartono ulteriori infiorescenze strumentali, dal trio all'orchestra - quasi archetipico, una fusione che facendo toccare gli estremi dello sciamanico e del tecnologico si è proposta come minimo comune denominatore di una vasta serie di esigenze espressive, dalla ...
Chicago Underground Duo: In Praise of Shadows
by Troy Collins
Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor regroup once again for their fourth album as the Chicago Underground Duo and ninth under the Chicago Underground moniker. The project has varied in size from duo, trio and quartet to orchestra, but the core of Mazurek and Taylor have always been its heartbeat. Utilizing occasional overdubbing and tastefully augmented post-production, ...
Chicago Underground Duo: In Praise of Shadows
by Nathan Haselby
In Praise of Shadows, the fourth release by the Chicago Underground Duo, focuses on continuing experiments in sense confusion within a single relationship: music and light. As with previous albums, cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor spend considerable time on piano and vibes respectively, creating a surprisingly full sound that is matched by a wide ...
