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Nicole Mitchell and Michel Edelin: The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest
by Howard Mandel
Nicole Mitchell and Michel Edelin are two of the most creative flutists in music of any sort today, brilliant improvisers with highly developed sensitivities to sound who share a passion for collaborating in real time. Yet their personal approaches to playing one of the oldest instruments in the world represent two far ends of an esthetic spectrum. “We have exactly the same musical interests and influences," Mitchell has said, “but we come to the music from such different directions!"
read moreMichel Edelin Quartet: Resurgence
by John Sharpe
French flutist Michel Edelin is back among familiar faces on Resurgence, after his appearance with fellow flutist Nicole Mitchell on The Ethiopian Princess Meets The Tantric Priest (Rouge Art, 2011). He reconstitutes the quartet which last appeared together on Déblocage D'émergence (AA Records, 1995) for a studio set of 11 of his smart originals. On bass Jean-Jacques Avenel demonstrates why he held tenure for such a long time with the late Steve Lacy, freed to join the frontline by drummer ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Pur facendo per ovvi motivi riferimento al veterano flautista Michel Edelin, che ne è il titolare nonché l'autore di tutto il materiale tematico, questo lavoro trae i motivi della propria riuscita più che mai dalla somma delle forze in campo, anche proprio nella loro diversità. Si segnalano specificatamente le presenze di un almeno altrettanto glorioso senatore del jazz francese di ricerca quale il clarinettista (in prevalenza) Jacques Di Donato, che ricordiamo in particolare in storiche formazioni monostrumentali ...
read moreIndigo Trio - Michel Edelin: The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come spesso accade nel jazz, ad un incontro live fa seguito una sessione di registrazione in studio. In questo caso, i protagonisti dell'incontro sono l'Indigo Trio (Nicole Mitchell, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake) ed il flautista Michel Edelin. Il luogo, Strasburgo. L'album, questo “The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest," che già nel titolo lascia intravedere quel pizzico di follia indispensabile quando la musica si muove su orizzonti ampiamente improvvisati (Nicole Mitchell non è una principessa etiope, e tantomeno Edelin è ...
read moreMichel Edelin Trio: Kuntu
by John Sharpe
Perennially unfashionable and plagued by perceptions of insufficient heft and timbral variation, it's not surprising that flute-based trios are rarer than an apologetic banker. Not that this troubles the Paris-based RogueArt label, as straight after the Indigo Trio's Anaya (2009) comes another, this time under the direction of flautist Michel Edelin. Past associations for the Frenchman include Byard Lancaster, Barry Altschul and Steve Potts, though the majority of his projects have been European, with the likes of Daniel Humair and ...
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