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The Catastrophist

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Catastrophist; Ox Duke; Rock On; Gopher Island; Shake Hands with Danger; The Clearing Fills; Gesceap; Hot Coffee; Yonder Blue; Tesseact; At Odds with Logic.

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Jeff Parker: Slight Freedom

Read "Slight Freedom" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
December 10, 2016

One is tempted to think of Jeff Parker as the first guitar anti-hero. He's a subtle player, first and foremost, not given to showy pyrotechnics and rapid-fire flights of plectral fancy. His chameleonic, almost self-effacing, presence on recordings by Tortoise, Joey DeFrancesco, Isotope 217, Fred Anderson, the Brian Blade Fellowship, Peter Erskine, Nicole Mitchell, Yo La ...

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Things We Like: Ottobre 2016

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2016

Finito il mese di ottobre, riprendiamo la vecchia rubrica “Things We Like," dove, un po' per passione e un po' per gioco, descriviamo le cose (musicali e non) che ci rimarranno impresse del mese appena trascorso. Alberto Bazzurro Ottobre, mese pre-referendario per eccellenza (non quel referendum...), si porta generalmente appresso una caterva ...

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Greg Ward & 10 Tongues: Touch My Beloved's Thought

Read "Touch My Beloved's Thought" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
August 29, 2016

Tanti ma tanti anni fa, di passaggio da quelle parti per un giro chicagoano, mi domandai cosa cavolo potesse lasciare ai posteri un posto come Peoria (capitale dell'omonima contea) a parte un celebre discorso di Abramo Lincoln del 1864 sulla schiavitù e i diritti del popolo nero, l'aver dato i natali a un paio di discreti ...

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Tortoise: The Catastrophist

Read "The Catastrophist" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 14, 2016

Tornano i Tortoise e subito gli affezionati della prima ora iniziano a sudare freddo. Non è infatti che i lavori del gruppo di Chicago prodotti nel nuovo millennio avessero convinto troppo, impelagati in una terra prog-fusion in cui si stentava a rintracciare l'urgenza dei primi, fantastici dischi. Sebbene infatti, anche in ...

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Peripheral Vision: Sheer Tyranny Of Will

Read "Sheer Tyranny Of Will" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
April 9, 2015

One must wonder what chance a group of relatively unknown Canadian jazz musicians playing complicated original tunes has for any sort of recognition or commercial success in the US. If musical quality was the sole determinant, Peripheral Vision, the relatively unknown Canadian band in question, would be celebrities, set for life. They've unleashed a corker of ...

News: Event

Brilliant Corners Brings Four Days Of Jazz To Belfast

March 21, 2015

Hello and welcome to the third edition of Brilliant Corners! You seem to be enjoying our little festival and we’re delighted to be back with another stellar line-up. The four-day event is better than ever, meshing local talent with international contemporaries. We’ve the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra, Fred Frith, Troyka, Get The Blessing, together with performances ...

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Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble: L.U.M.E.

Read "L.U.M.E." reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 29, 2014

Il termine “lume" in portoghese significa fuoco ma, inteso come acronimo, indica il Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble, una band di 15 elementi guidata dal pianista e compositore Marco Barroso. Nato nel 2006 il L.U.M.E. debutta con quest'album in cui mostra di saper dire qualcosa di personale nel panorama orchestrale contemporaneo. La scena musicale ...

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I nuovi orchestratori - 2: Kyle Saulnier - Rob Mazurek

by Angelo Leonardi
October 6, 2014

Parliamo ancora di orchestre e arrangiatori [per leggere la prima puntata di questo approfondimento -clicca qui. Tralasciando per il momento di considerare i contributi più innovativi della scena europea (tra cui spiccano la Vienna Art Orchestra e l'Italian Instabile Orchestra) dopo la stagione del Free la ricerca d'avanguardia statunitense non si è fermata. Purtroppo ...

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Caffeine Petrol: Nosejob

Read "Nosejob" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 20, 2014

The jazz department of the NTNU university in Trondheim, Norway keeps presenting gifted and opinionated musicians that challenge conventional perspectives on genres and styles. The new power trio Caffeine Petrol--guitarist Gudmund Bolstad Skjær, who wrote all the trio pieces, bassist Fredrik Gundersen and drummer Martin Sandvik-- demonstrate how any neo-jazz-cons attempt to frame jazz aesthetics in ...