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Unscientific Italians: Play The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 2

Read "Play The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 2" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Prosegue l'omaggio alla musica di Bill Frisell da parte degli Unscientific Italians che, dopo il disco uscito nel 2021, presentano adesso un secondo volume, proposto anche in un doppio vinile assieme al primo. La formazione è la medesima, anche se ci sono un paio di avvicendamenti in alcune tracce: musicisti in larga parte precedentemente membri del collettivo di El Gallo Rojo--nel cui interno, nel 2008, era nato il progetto, poi lasciato inattivo per dieci anni--o comunque frequenti collaboratori ...

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Lisa Marie Simmons: Notespeak 12

Read "Notespeak 12" reviewed by Chris May


Poetry & Jazz has a checkered history. When combined, the two art forms are not so much a marriage made in heaven as an obstacle course. The biggest danger is that one of them is verbal and the other is non-verbal and at its best transcends words. The second danger is that the better the poetry and/or the jazz in question, the more intrusive may be their competing demands for the listener's attention. Notespeak 12 is top-end poetry ...

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Unscientific Italians: Play The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 1

Read "Play The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 1" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Few would argue against Bill Frisell's status as one of the most singular and influential guitarists/composers since around 1980. And yet, the Baltimore-born musician remains something of an enigma: easy to admire but a tad more difficult to pin down. Instantly recognizable from just a handful of notes, Frisell is, at the same time, a musical polyglot, the breadth of whose music—particularly his myriad collaborations—is perhaps unparalleled. How best then to approach his music? The Unscientific Italians, an ...

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Unscientific Italians: Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1

Read "Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Arrivato a farsi conoscere in età relativamente tarda (aveva già passato i trenta anni quando ha inciso il primo disco da titolare per la ECM, preceduto da un paio di collaborazioni con due illustri artisti della stessa etichetta come Arild Andersen e Jan Garbarek), Bill Frisell si è subito imposto come una delle voci nuove più importanti nel mondo del jazz e della musica improvvisata, non solo per il suo personalissimo approccio alla chitarra che lo ha fatto diventare un ...

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Fulvio Sigurta: The Oldest Living Thing

Read "The Oldest Living Thing" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The Oldest Living Thing is trumpeter and composer Sigurta's sixth album as leader or co-leader, his fourth for the Cam Jazz label. He's also recorded with pianist Francesco Turrisi and as a member of Nostalgia 77. For this album he's joined by acoustic guitarist Federico Casagrande (who shares writing duties) and Steve Swallow on electric bass. Sigurta and Casagrande form an empathic partnership and prove to be complementary in their writing styles. Both men leave plenty of space ...


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