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Article: Live Review

Jazzahead 2011: April 28 - May 1, 2011

Read "Jazzahead 2011: April 28 - May 1, 2011" reviewed by John Kelman


Jazzahead Bremen, Germany April 28-May 1, 2010 Jazz may be a marginalized genre with shrinking CD sales and, at least in North America, a painfully low profile in popular media, but just a few days at Jazzahead in Bremen, Germany, leave a much different impression. A trade show for all ...

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Article: Album Review

Walter Beltrami: Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo

Read "Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Guitarist Walter Beltrami has good reason for calling this CD Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo. It's a disorder that emanates in the inner ear and results in a spinning sensation caused by changes in body posture. For him, it lasted six months and disappeared as suddenly as it came. Beltrami wrote many of the compositions on this record ...

Article: Album Review

Vincent Courtois: L’imprévu

Read "L’imprévu" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Parigino, quarantatre anni appena compiuti, Vincent Courtois sintetizza (e insieme emblematizza) in questo bel lavoro solitario le sue due anime: quella classica (un diploma in conservatorio, fra l'altro) e naturalmente quella jazzistica (i vari Levallet, Escoudé e Pifarély sono stati in tal senso i suoi mèntori). Il primo della decina di album da lui firmati (o ...

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L'Imprévu

Label: La Buissonne
Released: 2010

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Article: Album Review

Ellery Eskelin/ Sylvie Courvoisier: Every So Often

Read "Every So Often" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The improvisational intersection of American and European music exemplified in the recording Every So Often finds common ground without much trouble when the improvisers are Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisier. This hour of sonically stellar studio recordings never lacks for innovation nor repeats ideas. Saxophonist Eskelin, a jazz maverick is probably best known for ...

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As Soon As Possible

Label: La Buissonne
Released: 2008

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Translucide

Label: La Buissonne
Released: 2000

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Article: Album Review

Vincent Courtois: Translucide

Read "Translucide" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


In the past, thirty-two year old French cellist Vincent Courtois has aligned himself with an impressive cast of musicians whether performing contemporary classical or sharpening his jazz/improv talents with the likes of; Martial Solal, Dave Douglas, Marc Ducret, Steve Swallow and many others of note. With his first major label release titled Translucide, Courtois performs a ...


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