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Album Review

Roots Magic Sextet: Long Old Road

Read "Long Old Road" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The poet Jayne Cortez once wrote “I'm taking the blues back to where / the blues stealers won't go / I'm talking the blues back home." For Roots Magic, back home isn't the crossroads where Robert Johnson made that infamous deal with the devil, but the peninsula in Southern Europe we call Italy. Long Old Road is the band's fourth release on Clean Feed Records and it follows Take Root Among The Stars (2020), Last Kind Words (2017), and Hoodoo ...

Live Review

Roots Magic al Pinocchio di Firenze

Read "Roots Magic al Pinocchio di Firenze" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Roots Magic Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 18.3.2023 Come secondo appuntamento del programma primaverile, è salita sul palco del Pinocchio Live Jazz una delle formazioni predilette dal pubblico del jazz club fiorentino, Roots Magic, per presentare Long Old Road, il suo ultimo lavoro appena uscito per Clean Feed. Originariamente un quartetto composto dai clarinetti di Alberto Popolla e i sax di Errico De Fabritiis sostenuti dal contrabbasso di Gianfranco Tedeschi e dalla batteria ...

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Roots Magic: Hoodoo Blues

Read "Hoodoo Blues" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


L'inizio è di quelli da far tremare i polsi, perché “The Hard Blues," originariamente registrato nel febbraio del 1972 durante le session di Dogon A.D. ma pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1975 come brano conclusivo di Coon Bid'ness, è totemico marchio di fabbrica di uno straordinario improvvisatore e compositore quale è stato Julius Hemphill. Ma Roots Magic, prima formazione italiana ad incidere per la prestigiosa Clean Feed, gira alla larga da interpretazioni più o meno fedeli, più o meno ...

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Recording

Noel Taylor and Alberto Popolla - All Fall Down (Citystream, 2010) ****

Noel Taylor and Alberto Popolla - All Fall Down (Citystream, 2010) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels

By Joe Higham This 14 track CD is possibly one of the most delightful wind duos I've heard for a long time, and it's easy listening! By using the words easy listening I'm certainly not trying to evoke the image of James Last or Bert Kaempfert, here we have music that whilst pushing at barriers is quite unpretentious, even the length of the tunes is very modest, with the majority of the pieces having an average of 2 to 3 ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Long Old Road

Clean Feed Records
2023

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Hoodoo Blues

Clean Feed Records
2015

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Amazing Recordings

Point of Departure, WMPG-FM
2011

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All Fall Down

citystream
2010

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Magique

Slam Records
2009

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