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Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM
by Angelo Leonardi
Sound ExperimentsThe Music of the AACM Paul Steinbeck 272 Pagine ISBN: # 978-0-226-820095 The University of Chicago Press 2022 Fondata a Chicago nel 1965 su impulso di Muhal Richard Abrams, l'AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) è giunta alla quarta generazione di musicisti e resta l'organizzazione collettiva più influente del jazz e della musica sperimentale. La chiusura etnocentrica del mondo accademico rispetto a ciò che accade oltre ...
read moreThe Black Saint And Soul Note Labels
by Jerome Wilson
Since 1975, the Black Saint and Soul Note record labels have been a major force in documenting the growth of American avant-garde jazz. This program samples two hours of music from their diverse catalog. It includes work from artists who had long associations with the labels such as Muhal Richard Abrams and David Murray as well as those who just had a few releases there such as Odean Pope and Phillip Johnston. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't ...
read moreMuhal Richard Abrams Quintet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano
by Paolo Peviani
Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 31.01.2016 Il programma della stagione 2015-2016 di Aperitivo in Concerto era, come sempre, ricco di proposte e musicisti interessanti. Un nome, però, svettava nettamente su tutti gli altri. Quello di Muhal Richard Abrams. Per la sua storia (ricordiamo che il pianista è stato tra i fondatori dell'AACM), perché erano diversi anni che il nostro non suonava a Milano, e perché era alla testa di uno splendido ...
read moreMuhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance
by AAJ Italy Staff
Registrati dal vivo tra il 2009 e il 2010, i due concerti di questo disco ci regalano il dialogo tra il pianoforte di Muhal Richard Abrams e - rispettivamente - il sax tenore di Fred Anderson e il trombone [+ laptop] di George Lewis, tre pilastri della storia dell'AACM di Chicago, il cui pensiero musicale riesce ancora oggi a colpire per l'inventività e la capacità di creare senso e relazioni espressive. Anche perché, pur giunti alla venerabile età di ottant'anni ...
read moreMuhal Richard Abrams / Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum
by Kurt Gottschalk
Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell are arguably the two figures most central to the birth and rearing of the seminal '60s collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The organization was borne out of Abrams' Experimental Band and the first standing group to emerge from it was the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble (later rechristened the Art Ensemble of Chicago). It seems a bit strange, then, that their careers have run such separate, while nearly parallel, paths. ...
read moreMuhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence
by Martin Longley
This is a live solo piano set from 1998's Guelph Jazz Festival, in Canada. Chicagoan-cum-New York pianist Muhal Richard Abrams performs the album's title piece, which is around an hour long and is divided into three parts. Ultimately, there are only the tiniest breaks in this improvisation and these demarcations only exist for listening convenience. Once Abrams begins, he's off on a journey that's so organized that it appears to possess the discipline of a premeditated composition. He views this ...
read moreMuhal Richard Abrams: The Advancement of Creative Music
by AAJ Staff
By Ted Panken At a certain point in the mid-1960s--the exact date escapes him--pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, a lifelong resident of the South Side of Chicago, visited New York for the first time on a gig with saxophonist Eddie Harris at Harlem's Club Barron. New York suited my energy, Abrams recalled. Of course. But I was already in that sort of energy. I had no doubt that I could be in New York. No doubt at all. ...
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