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Article: Live Review

Big Ears Festival 2022

Read "Big Ears Festival 2022" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 24-27, 2022 The Big Ears Festival found ways to continue virtually during the pandemic—most notably by sponsoring the Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival—but there is no substitute for the big glorious eclectic event that is the in-person festival. Past festivals have usually opened with a big kickoff ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Bernardes & Drumming GP: Liturgy of the Birds – in memoriam Olivier Messiaen

Read "Liturgy of the Birds – in memoriam Olivier Messiaen" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


In questo singolare album, inciso nel febbraio 2018, il trentaquattrenne pianista portoghese Daniel Bernardes riunisce il proprio trio col quartetto di percussionisti (in verità anche parecchio melodici, visto l'ampio uso di vibrafoni e marimba) Drumming GP, a generare un incontro appunto decisamente particolare, visto che a tratti il trio agisce in quanto tale, battendo itinerari anche ...

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Article: Album Review

Burak Bedikyan: Istanbul Junction

Read "Istanbul Junction" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Istanbul-born and New York-based pianist Burak Bedikyan is an inventive composer and intelligent improviser with a subtle touch. His fifth release, the intimate and cinematic Istanbul Junction, showcases his talents fully as he leads a new band through nine of his captivating originals. The album's overall ambience is dramatic and darkly-hued, and the various ...

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Article: Album Review

Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons

Read "Diatom Ribbons" reviewed by Troy Dostert


To call pianist Kris Davis stylistically omnivorous would seem to be an understatement. While she started her career solidly in the avant-garde circles that brought her into projects with stalwarts of the genre like Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Tom Rainey and Tony Malaby, that hasn't stopped her from forging connections with other musicians not typically included ...

Article: My Favourite Things

Francesca Gaza e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Francesca Gaza e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Cantante, compositrice, polistrumentista, Francesca Gaza ha recentemente pubblicato il suo primo album da leader, intitolato Lilac for People (Auand Records). Il tratto principale della mia musica L'attenzione ai dettagli. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La sensibilità e la consapevolezza.

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Article: Album Review

Atomic: Pet Variations

Read "Pet Variations" reviewed by John Eyles


Formed in the spring of 2000, Scandinavian “supergroup" Atomic recorded and released their first album Feet Music (Jazzland) in 2001. The years since have been remarkably stable for the quintet; they have produced albums at an impressive rate of about a disc a year, including two collaborations with Ken Vandermark's School Days group. The only change ...

Article: My Favourite Things

Filippo Vignato

Read "Filippo Vignato" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Il tratto principale della mia musica Il contrasto tra melodia e rumore. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La possibilità di una profonda comunicazione reciproca. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Ogni volta in cui riesco a stabilire un'empatia con chi ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Fiuczynski: Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam!

Read "Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam!" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Simultaneously dedicated to 20th century classical composer Olivier Messiaen and legendary rap and hip-hop producer J Dilla, Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam! is a musical adventurer's dream and a purist's nightmare. But anything more conventional from conceptualist, composer and guitarist David Fiuczynski would probably be disappointing--after all, he's the “Fuze" who lit the raging bonfire of the ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

From Microtones to Mauro to MFSB

Read "From Microtones to Mauro to MFSB" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Dave Fiuczynski Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam! RareNoise Records 2016 Simultaneously dedicated to 20th century classical composer Olivier Messiaen and legendary rap and hip-hop producer J Dilla, Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam! is a musical adventurer's dream and a purist's nightmare. But anything more conventional from conceptualist, composer and guitarist ...


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