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Anthony Coleman and Brian Chase: Arcades
by Troy Dostert
An interesting cross-generational pairing, Arcades features veteran pianist Anthony Coleman alongside relative upstart, drummer Brian Chase. A key exponent of the jazz avant-garde, Coleman's body of work extends back to the 1980s with John Zorn, plus a host of recordings since then with folks like Wadada Leo Smith and Marc Ribot, not to mention a substantial series of his own releases, including a solo disc from 2019, Catenary Oath (NoBusiness). Chase's dominant claim to fame has been his tenure with ...
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by John Sharpe
Catenary Oath presents a 2018 solo recital by pianist and composer Anthony Coleman, recorded at Jordan Hall in the New England Conservatory in Boston where he also teaches. The album, available as a limited edition LP or digitally, contains a mix of originals and standards all given deeply personalized interpretations by the pianist. Coleman's profile has lessened since the 1990s when he was a regular on the downtown scene alongside John Zorn, Dave Douglas and Marc Ribot, but he still ...
read moreAnthony Coleman: Freakish
by Warren Allen
Great composers put heavy demands on the people who play their music. No matter how long ago they wrote the tunes that continue inspire after they are gone, their presence continues to hover over the music, almost haunting the pianos that would crank out their concertos and rags. It takes work to deal with these ghosts. Perhaps this is why it took Anthony Coleman five years to complete his special tribute of the music of Jelly Roll Morton.
Coleman is ...
read moreAnthony Coleman: Lapidation
by Kurt Gottschalk
After a recording career given over in large part to shtick and nostalgia, the last few years have seen a well-deserved spike for Anthony Coleman. His last two records for Tzadik showed him (on 2006's Pushy Blueness) as a strong composer and (also 2006, Shmutisige Magnaen: Coleman Plays Geburtig) a remarkable interpreter. Lapidation continues the documentation of the pianist as a strong composer. The five pieces included were written over the span of the last decade, ranging ...
read moreFrank London: Hazónos
by AAJ Italy Staff
Autore fra i più prolifici e ispirati della Radical Jewish Culture, Frank London prosegue con Hazónos la sua personale ricognizione della tradizione cantoriale, perfettamente coerente allo stile cui da anni ci ha abituati. Nella musica di London coabitano il profondo rispetto per un patrimonio culturale che è suo preciso intento diffondere al di là dei confini della quotidianità del suo popolo e il tentativo di aggiornarne coraggiosamente la forma per riavvicinare la comunità alla propria storia. Evocazione del sentimento e ...
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by Kurt Gottschalk
Anthony Coleman is such a dictionary of style and genre that he has been an invaluable sideman in the Downtown chronology for more than 25 years. His ability to adapt, reference and mimic gave breadth to the wide-eyed, nascent scene--and has also informed his own genre-busting projects. But anyone who has listened closely has surely thought that there's not just an interpreter in him, but a composer as well, and potentially a pretty great one. And in ...
read moreAnthony Coleman: Shmutsige Magnaten
by AAJ Italy Staff
È un disco importante, questo Shmutsige Magnaten, firmato in solitudine dal pianista Anthony Coleman, protagonista di tante avventure della creatività downtown degli ultimi decenni. Un disco importante per molti motivi, primo fra tutti, banalmente, quello che Coleman è artista la cui intelligenza non cede mai alla tentazione di abbandonare la profondità emotiva. Artista legato in modo intenso, ma mai opprimente, alla proprie radici ebraiche, strumentista che riesce sempre a superare le retoriche linguistiche che il pianoforte inevitabilmente offre, malinconico e ...
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