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“With a lot of young musicians, they get to a certain point and you can’t tell them anything.” - Marcus Roberts (Jazz Times May 2009).
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"I hear great new musicians all over the world. There has been a globalization of jazz. You can't look just to the U.S. for jazz anymore" - Randy Brecker ( Downbeat January 2010)
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TODAY FRIDAY MAY 24

RENDEZVOUS JAZZ - Black Horse, 68 Front St, Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear NE25 8DP. Phone:0191 253 6931.1pm. Free.
Afternoon classic jazz with vocals.
TWYLLIGHT JAZZ - Jazz @ The Fell @ The Legion, Coatsworth Rd., Gateshead. 8:30pm.
You tell me!.
JAMES BIRKETT/BRADLEY JOHNSTON - Sage Gateshead, 8pm. Free. 8pm.
The dynamic guitar duo on the Concourse.
NICK ROSS ORCHESTRA 'Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era' - Queen's Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm. £17.50/£16.50.
The Millerdy lingers on...

Thursday, August 04, 2011

CD Review: Shizaru - The Naked Truth

Lorenzo Feliciati (bass guitars/keys), Pat Mastelotto (drums/percussion), Roy Powell (piano/Fender Rhodes/ Hammond/keys) & Cuong Vu (trumpet/electronics).
Italian bassist Lorenzo Feliciati has brought together like-minded friends to produce the CD Shizaru. Americans trumpeter Cuong Vu and Pat Mastelotto (drums) and British keyboards player Roy Powell empathise with Feliciati's musical vision.
A post Apocalypse soundscape emerges from a Bitches Brew of a cauldron. Feliciati's fretless bass centres the group sound, on occasion inhabiting Headhunters territory, around which Powell's Fender Rhodes stabs and pokes as Vu's trumpet work is heard, distorted and distant.
The trumpeter hails from New York's downtown scene and on this outing is clearly the free-jazz improvising voice of the quartet. Drummer Mastelotto lays down constantly shifting grooves and on the title track - Shizaru - he goes into nu-metal overdrive. This is very much the exception to the rule with much of the CD residing in a mid-tempo chill-out zone.
Russell.
The Naked Truth's Shizaru is available now on Rare Noise Records RNR019.
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1 comment :

  1. Thank you for the review!

    (Giacomo Bruzzo/RareNoiseRecords)

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Bebop Spoken Here -- Here, being the north-east of England -- centred in the blues heartland of Newcastle and reaching down to the Tees Delta and looking upwards to the Land of the Kilt.
Not a very original title, I know; not even an accurate one as my taste, whilst centred around the music of Bird and Diz, extends in many directions and I listen to everything from King Oliver to Chick Corea and beyond. Not forgetting the Great American Songbook the contents of which has provided the inspiration for much great jazz and quality popular singing for round about a century.
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