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by Howard Mandel
Nicole Mitchell and Michel Edelin are two of the most creative flutists in music of any sort today, brilliant improvisers with highly developed sensitivities to sound who share a passion for collaborating in real time. Yet their personal approaches to playing one of the oldest instruments in the world represent two far ends of an esthetic spectrum. “We have exactly the same musical interests and influences," Mitchell has said, “but we come to the music from such different directions!"
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by Mark Corroto
It took a long time (much too long) for listeners to recognize the brilliance that was Chicago saxophonist Fred Anderson. The New York-centric jazz cognoscenti have often overlooked talent that comes from Chicago, and artists were often drawn to The Big Apple to seek the recognition they deserved. Beginning in the '90s, though, the focal point of creative music shifted to Chicago and veteran musicians such as Von Freeman, Fred Anderson, and Harrison Bankhead, plus (then) younger talents, Ken Vandermark, ...
read moreHarrison Bankhead Quartet: Velvet Blue
by Mark Corroto
Harrison Bankhead's time has come. The Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) is on a roll with the release of Velvet Blue. For decades, the bassist has been the bedrock upon which great Chicago jazz has been built. He was the foundation for legendary players like Fred Anderson, Von Freeman, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Malachi Thompson and a collaborator with Nicole Mitchell in the Indigo Trio and Hamid Drake and Ernest Dawkins with the Chicago Trio. In ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Come spesso accade nel jazz, ad un incontro live fa seguito una sessione di registrazione in studio. In questo caso, i protagonisti dell'incontro sono l'Indigo Trio (Nicole Mitchell, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake) ed il flautista Michel Edelin. Il luogo, Strasburgo. L'album, questo “The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest," che già nel titolo lascia intravedere quel pizzico di follia indispensabile quando la musica si muove su orizzonti ampiamente improvvisati (Nicole Mitchell non è una principessa etiope, e tantomeno Edelin è ...
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