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Confusion Bleue: East Side Banquet

Read "East Side Banquet" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Luminously recorded at East Side Studio in New York City, the superfine Confusion Bleue band reemerges with a sterling exposition, centered upon its democratic, but largely cohesive free-form manifesto. The musicians present a resonating group-centric sound, aided by Lee Pembleton's exquisite audio-engineering via a consortium of gusty improvisations and swirling breakouts. With rapidly-moving pulses, keyboardist Nobu Stowe often steers or provokes the variable theme-building components, transferring to a rather inspiring group dynamic. “Movement III" is one of seven ...

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Nobu Stowe: Confusion Bleue

Read "Confusion Bleue" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


C'è il rapporto tra libera improvvisazione e forma al centro di Confusion Bleue, il terzo disco pubblicato per l'italiana Soul Note dal pianista di origini giapponesi, ma residente a Baltimora, Nobu Stowe. Un rapporto di spontanea interazione, in totale e programmatica assenza di scrittura, che il musicista aveva già messo in pratica nel precedente Hommage an Klaus Kinski, ribattezzando il proprio metodo “total improvisation," in contrasto con una “free improvisation" dalla quale sarebbe bandito qualsiasi elemento connotato, e connotabile, dal ...

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Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free

Read "Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly improvised free elements--but also unique sets of fully improvised music, incorporating his own vast musical influences, from Baroque and progressive rock to soundtracks, ethnic ...

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Nobu Stowe: Confusion Bleue

Read "Confusion Bleue" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Pianist Nobu Stowe continues developing and honing his quest of “total improvisation" with the marvelous Confusion Bleue. The music hovers within the world of free jazz but almost always contains elements that imply structure, allowing the compositions to feel more or less anchored as time flows by. Stowe's explorations are supported by many of the same musicians from his previous efforts, Hommage an Klaus Kinski (Soul Note, 2007) and the Brooklyn and New York Moments (Konnex, 2006). ...

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Nobu Stowe: An die Musik

Read "An die Musik" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Knowledge is hierarchical and contextual, with the need of integrating the new into the old without contradiction. Furthermore, conclusions reached must also be contextual, meaning that they are conditioned by the state of the knowledge from which they are drawn. What does this have to do with pianist Nobu Stowe and An Die Musik? The act of judging an artist's output as good or bad, successful or unsuccessful, which is different than like or dislike, must center ...

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Nobu Stowe: An die Musik

Read "An die Musik" reviewed by Lyn Horton


No decisions about a recording should ever be made based on the first few sounds that are heard. Even though An die Musik from Japanese pianist Nobu Stowe begins with a restfully melodic and dramatic three-minute piano and drum duet, it moves quickly and assuredly into a vibrant and emotive rhythmic set of improvisations. These possess percussive diversity and a distinctive pianistic bravura. This unique group of musicians alternates among combinations of instruments, moving between duos and trios of piano, ...

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Nobu Stowe - Lee Pembleton: Hommage An Klaus Kinski

Read "Hommage An Klaus Kinski" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ho letto con attenzione, restandone affascinato, le note di copertina che Art Lange ha scritto per questo album. Si parla di evoluzione del jazz, improvvisazione totale su canovacci sonori, Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog, delle colonne sonore che Popol Vuh ha scritto per alcuni dei suoi film per approdare infine alla musica di questo album, nel quale l'organico è flessibile in funzione della modalità espressiova (duo, trio, quartetto, quintetto). Sono rimasto affascinato, dicevo, forse perchè spesso fatico a cogliere, nella musica, ...


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