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Il Claudia Quintet al JAM Festival di Mira
by Angelo Leonardi
JAM Festival 2016 Teatro di Villa dei Leoni Mira, Venezia 12.03.2016 Il lungo tour europeo del Claudia Quintet ha toccato l'Italia in un'unica data, sabato 12 marzo nell'ambito del JAM Festival di Mira. Giunta alla dodicesima edizione, la rassegna ha assunto un ruolo centrale nella programmazione musicale in Triveneto, grazie alle ottime scelte qualitative e al coinvolgimento con le realtà economiche e istituzionali dell'area. Anche quest'anno il cartellone ha coinvolto massicciamente ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet at The Workmans Club
by Ian Patterson
The Claudia Quintet The Workmans Club Dublin Ireland November 25, 2013 “Real fans do it on a Monday night," Improvised Music Company's Gerry Godley said in an address to the crowd that acknowledged the economic and logistical challenges facing promoters, musicians and fans alike. The Republic of Ireland's economy is still struggling half a decade on and at a time when incomes are stretched semi-improvised music isn't necessarily on the top of everybody's list ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet: September
by Glenn Astarita
September is a month that signals the return of football, the advent of fall, and when the youngsters say goodbye to summer and venture back to school. But for bandleader and drummer John Hollenbeck, it's when he seeks isolation and concentrates on artist residencies. September is The Claudia Quintet's seventh-release as the celebrated ensemble reaffirms its domain as an extraordinarily hip and unique entity. Under Hollenbeck's direction, the band radiates a disparate focus that includes minimalistic oeuvres amid tightly-woven and ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is The Beautiful?
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Poetry has always been the libretto of jazz music. Even before epic works of the late Gil Scott Heron like “H2O Gate Blues" or “Winter in America" (which inspired the nations of rap and hip-hop), there was Langston Hughes with bassist Charles Mingus on Weary Blues (Verve, 1958), the great Amiri Baraka, and A.B. Spellman. Then there was Kenneth Patchen, one of The Rebel Poets of America, an enigmatic legend who, if he chose, might have laid claim to creating ...
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by Mark Corroto
American poet Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) has been a favorite of musicians for over half a century, from composer John Cage to saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and bassist William Parker. This everyman writer, considered to be the “father of the Beats," is their direct link to Walt Whitman and William Blake.Before Jack Kerouac performed his poems with a jazz band, Patchen was reciting poetry backed by Allyn Ferguson and Charles Mingus. His writings are a smattering of love poems to ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?
by Troy Collins
Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles Mingus) was Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), a poet, novelist and painter whose innovative work ranges from political protest and sardonic humor to sentimental romance. In ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet: For
by Tom Greenland
It's a challenge to describe the Claudia Quintet's sound: there are patent references, but distinct departures from these references as well. For, their newest project on Cuneiform, reunites Drew Gress (bass), John Hollenbeck (drums and electronica), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion) and Chris Speed (clarinet and tenor sax), continuing a trajectory established on three previous releases.Hollenbeck's nuanced part-writing fully exploits the tonal similarities of the frontline (clarinet, vibes & accordion); tracks like “Be Happy, “This Too Shall ...
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