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Album Review

All Ellington: All Ellington

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When Eric Boeren assembles a cast of musicians to play the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn you know it won't be your father's Ellington. Well, unless your father is very, very hip. You probably already expect this, knowing Boeren has been a mainstay of the new Dutch swing for decades. With his All Ellington tentet, he relies on a cast of skilled improvisers to enliven music written and recorded fifty, sixty, seventy and even eighty years ago.

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Radio & Podcasts

Doek Festival 2018 - This Is Our Music Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

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"This Is Our Music": many sides of the flourishing Amsterdam improv scene were revealed at the 2018 Doek Festival, with well-known musicians and international guests. This event signalled the return of the Amsterdam-based collective Doek to its roots: personal projects by its individual core members. The result is a richly varied program including two nights at the BIMHUIS. The last few editions of the Doek Festival have been some of the most ambitious events in the history of ...

Album Review

Eric Boeren: Song for Tracy the Turtle

Read "Song for Tracy the Turtle" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ornette Coleman è sempre stata la fonte di ispirazione dichiarata per Eric Boeren e per la sua cornetta. In particolar modo lo è l'Ornette degli inizi o, per meglio dire, del periodo reso immortale dai dischi pubblicati dall'Atlantic. Anche questo album, ricavato dalla registrazione radiofonica di un concerto che si era tenuto a Bruges alla fine di maggio del 2004, si trova ad essere a cavallo fra la musica di Ornette e il buon free europeo che si è sviluppato ...

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Eric Boeren 4tet: Song For Tracy The Turtle

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When Eric Boeren's 4tet isn't playing the music of Ornette Coleman, they are playing the music of Ornette Coleman. That is to say, with a Dutch swing.

The leader and cornetist began playing covers in the early 1990s, releasing several quartet recordings of Coleman's music with Cross Breeding (BVHaast, 1997), Joy Of A Toy (BVHaast, 2001), and Soft Nose (BVHaast, 2001).

And while this album Song For Tracey The Turtle only refers to two Coleman tracks ...

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Album Review

Bik Bent Braam: Extremen

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Questi olandesi non finiscono mai di stupire. A capo della sua orchestra Bik Bent Braam, zeppa di nomi di peso, Michiel Braam, pianista, compositore, arrangiatore (tutti i brani sono suoi) conduce una performance strepitosa, registrata in concerto nel febbraio 2008 al Bimhuis di Amsterdam. Il disco è autoprodotto, pur usufruendo di un contributo del Ministero olandese all'Educazione, Cultura e Scienze. C'è un filo rosso che collega questa musica a certe esperienze precedenti: penso soprattutto al dimenticato Waterland Ensemble di Loek ...

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Album Review

Play Station 6: #1

Read "#1" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tumultuosa: non saprei come altro definire la musica contenuta in questa terza uscita del catalogo Evil Rabbit. Musica che impegna e non concede nulla, brevi interludi minimali alternati a estenuanti divagazioni timbriche, stridenti derive rumoristiche opposte a concitati assalti frontali, svolazzi paranoici e inquietanti delicatamente sostenuti da trame evanescenti e dal sapore cameristico. Il tutto senza mai perdere, anche nei passaggi maggiormente dilatati e cervellotici, l’urgenza travolgente dell’espressione e, appunto, il tumultuoso danzare dell’improvvisazione. Il sestetto impegnato lungo le tredici ...


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