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Olli Ahvenlahti: Thinking, Whistling

Read "Thinking, Whistling" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il pianista finlandese Olli Ahvenlahti, classe 1949, in questa che è la sua incisione più recente, datata luglio 2017, dirige un quartetto dalle geometrie nitide, correttissime, quanto assolutamente asservite a un linguaggio decisamente tradizionale. Naturalmente ognuno è libero di suonare (anche bene, come accade appunto qui) la musica che preferisce, ma è ovvio che risentire per l'ennesima volta la classica sequenza tema/assoli/tema, secondo un idioma ormai trito e ritrito, non gratifica granché il vostro recensore. Non manca ...

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Olli Ahvenlahti: Thinking, Whistling

Read "Thinking, Whistling" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


When Mose Allison wrote in 1958 that 'a young man ain't got nothing in the world these days' he was probably not intending to make a philosophical statement--more a question of power politics. But now(adays) the line now suggests something else to me. I think neither Roger Daltrey nor I thought about it this way, at least until I stumbled on Olli Ahvenlahti's latest release. He stated in a recent interview that for him jazz consists of melody, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Thinking, Whistling

We Jazz Records
2018

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Thinking, Whistling

We Jazz Records
2017

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