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Best Jazz Ghost Tracks and Other Spectral Jazz, Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
We continue our exploration of great tunes that--for a reason or another--were concealed to great effect but also never received the attention they deserved. We'll try to remedy that focusing on ghost-tracks, and other ghostly jazz. We were supposed to select ten tunes... but there were at least thirteen more, plus a couple more ghost-related tunes. ...
Avant-Retro or Retro-Avant? Part I
by Ludovico Granvassu
Rigid categories are not what music should be about. This week we focus on music that some may file under retro" but is performed by musicians that are often labelled avant," it may not sound exactly how Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 or Fess Williams and the Royal Flush Orchestra would have played, but ...
The Coltrane family, Jazz and funerals, and more new releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
This episode focused on the Coltrane: John, Alice and Ravi, and by those inspired by their music. Also, funeral marching bands from Southern Italy, and other jazz experiments with funeral music, which are much more fun than you'd expect! And of course more new releases! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz ...
Houdini's Cage: Memories of a Barber
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra le qualità che più colpiscono della figura del leggendario Harry Houdini - che fu grandissimo escapista e personaggio memorabile nel bene e nel male, ma illusionista meno innovativo e incantatorio di quanto la storia ci ha tramandato - c'è certamente quella di essere riuscito a darci un'idea delle catene e di tutti i legami" che ...