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Eleni Karaindrou

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2019

by John Kelman
December 20, 2019

Well, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome continues to be a challenge, as it has been since mid-2014. 2019 represents, in fact, the worst year when it comes to the actual number of articles written. Still, I've been finding an increasingly satisfying niche in the arena of in-depth, detailed and extensive/exhaustive (exhausting, for you as much as I!!) articles. ...

Enjoy Jazz 2019

by Henning Bolte
December 2, 2019

Alte Feuerwache and other venues Enjoy Jazz And More Mannheim, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany October 27--November 1, 15-16, 2019 Enjoy Jazz And More this year lead me through two sections of its seven-week concert-series in October/November, with a great diversity of concerts ranging from seasoned German clarinet master Rolf Kühn to advanced ...

Sokratis Sinopoulos: Eight Winds

by Neri Pollastri
November 23, 2015

Ecco un lavoro davvero molto particolare, che prende ispirazione dalla musica tradizionale per realizzare impasti di impianto jazzistico, traendoli per giunta da una regione--la Grecia--la cui tradizione, splendida, è stata piuttosto sottovalutata in questo contesto. Ne è autore Sokratis Sinopoulos, poco più che quarantenne specialista della lyra, strumento tradizionale dell'area egea, che ha coltivato ...

The Rich Musical Vision of Japanese Double Bass Player Tetsu Saitoh

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 31, 2014

Japanese double bass master Tetsu Saitoh is one of the most original players of the bull fiddle. He is a resourceful and inventive free improviser but also feels at home when is playing Argentine tango, Brazilian music, Korean shaman music, obviously jazz or collaborating with poets, painters, dancers or theatre groups. All enrich his musical world ...

Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII

by John Kelman
August 2, 2014

When München's Haus der Kunst sponsored a nearly three-month exhibition about the ECM Records label, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, which ran from November, 2012 to February, 2013, there was far more to it than just bringing together collections of album covers, rarely seen video, archival tapes, imagery and concert performances. As much as ECM has carved ...

Concert in Athens

By Eleni Karaindrou

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Requiem for Willy Loman; Eternity Theme; Closed Roads; Waiting; Voyage; Invocation; Tango of Love; Tom’s Theme; Laura’s Waltz; Adagio; After Memory; Farewell Theme; Seeking Theme; Nostalgia Song; Waltz of the Rain; Adagio for Saxophone; Dance; Requiem for Willy Loman, var.

Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2013

Il concerto ateniese del Novembre 2010 che costituisce il nuovo CD della compositrice e pianista greca Eleni Karaindrou è caratterizzato dalla riunione con il sassofonista Jan Garbarek, che aveva prestato il timbro del suo strumento a due delle prime colonne sonore realizzate dalla Karaindrou per il regista Theo Angelopoulos, “Il volo" e “Paesaggio nella nebbia" (rispettivamente ...

Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

by John Kelman
March 20, 2013

For more than two decades, Eleni Karaindrou has been composing film scores for Theo Angelopoulos and releasing soundtracks on ECM, including Ulysses' Gaze (1995), with violist Kim Kashkashian, and Music for Films, where Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek performs music from the Greek film director's The Beekeeper (1986). Concert in Athens isn't Karaindrou's first live recording; 2006's ...

Charles Lloyd 75th Birthday Concerts at the Met Museum and Kennedy Center

February 28, 2013

Tenor saxophone titan Charles Lloyd has been hailed as one of the most restlessly inventive musicians in jazz history. His current quartet - with Jason Moran, piano; Reuben Rogers, bass; and Eric Harland, drums - was honored as the 2011 “#1 Acoustic Group" by the JazzTimes critics poll. “Follow the career of Charles Lloyd," said The ...