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Phil Grenadier: Shimmer

Read "Shimmer" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 4, 2014

Boston, MA, based trumpeter Phil Grenadier is a highly regarded jazz artisan, performing and recording with famous crooners, rock bands and ingratiating his wares within numerous progressive jazz fronts. He's also taught at New York City's prestigious Mannes College of Music and for the most part, has enjoyed status as a go-to session ace amid a ...

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Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning

Read "Saturday Morning" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
March 4, 2014

L'ottantatreenne Ahmad Jamal dispensa con questo nuovo CD l'ennesima lezione di piano jazz. Le undici tracce proposte ci restituiscono l'intatta voglia di comunicare gioiose note, che svettano leggere sul pentagramma come farfalle nel cielo stellato. La sua creativa cifra personale si impone a tutto tondo, passando con invadibile souplesse dallo swing ai solari percorsi funky.

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Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski: Gathering Call

Read "Gathering Call" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 4, 2014

La partenza con un brano di Duke Ellington non è solo l'omaggio ad un gigante della musica del Novecento ma un vero e proprio manifesto programmatico del Matt Wilson Quartet. In Gathering Call ritroviamo alcuni tratti distintivi del pensiero musicale di Duke: la leggerezza elevata ad arte, l'abilità nel condensare in brani di pochi minuti mondi ...

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Mike Longo: Step On It

Read "Step On It" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 3, 2014

If you want to hear what pianist Mike Longo enjoys, and how he thinks, you listen to his big band--The New York State Of The Art Jazz Ensemble--which is featured on Live From New York! (Consolidate Artists Productions, 2013); if you just want to hear Mike Longo, you listen to this trio. Step ...

Article: Interview

Franklin Kiermyer: Joy And Consequence

by Ian Patterson
March 3, 2014

The tradition. It's common jazz terminology. What does it mean, though, to be “in the tradition"? The term usually confers on the musician a stamp of authenticity and infers working knowledge of the dominant idiom, as typified by the jazz cannon. It also perhaps implies a certain orthodoxy. It's strange to think, however, that a music ...

Article: Live Review

Jeff Hamilton Trio at Arizona Musicfest

by Patricia Myers
March 3, 2014

Jeff Hamilton Trio Fairway House at Grayhawk Arizona Musicfest Scottsdale, Arizona February 13, 2014 The Jeff Hamilton Trio's performance at Arizona Musicfest was aptly and enticingly billed as “Paragon of Groove," and the combo delivered that groove from first note to last. Hamilton's precise power and nuanced sensitivity ...

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The Eric Starr Group: Such Is Life

Read "Such Is Life" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 3, 2014

Drummer Eric Starr is not a purist of any kind, in fact, he has always been interested in “genre bending" when it comes to his playing and draws equally from both jazz and rock drumming styles on this album. Along with brother Nelson--both third-generation musicians from Western New York--the duo created The Eric Starr Group (ESG) ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum 7-tette: Navigation

Read "Navigation" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 3, 2014

L'intento--racconta lo stesso Taylor Ho Bynum nelle note di copertina--è quello di massimizzare la libertà dei musicisti nell'ambito delle sfide poste dalla rigidità e dalla struttura delle composizioni. A tal fine organizza Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings) in questo modo: una seduta dal vivo registrata il sette dicembre 2012 con il sestetto e fissata su ...

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Amir ElSaffar: Alchemy

Read "Alchemy" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
March 3, 2014

Segnatevi questo nome perché Amir ElSaffar è destinato a fare grandi cose. Sull'esempio di Charles Tolliver e Woody Shaw omaggiati nella postbopppistica “Athar Kurd," il trombettista statunitense di origini irachene vanta un timbro caldo ed avvolgente. Il suo magniloquente solismo è qui sostenuto da una originale progettualità rivolta ad integrare le tecniche modali arabe nel mondo ...

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Rocket Science: Rocket Science

Read "Rocket Science" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 3, 2014

È cosa nota che, quando c'è di mezzo Evan Parker, nove volte su dieci la musica va nella direzione da lui indicata e determinata. Non fa eccezione questo nuovo titolo dell'etichetta di Peter Evans, testimonianza di una live session datata 25 maggio 2012 in quel di Londra (Vortex). Le folate improvvisative parkeriane, ora ...