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Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm - Revisited

Read "Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm - Revisited" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Nel percorso artistico di molti, è decisivo il rapporto tra emancipazione ed auto-affermazione. Il jazz moderno è spesso testimone di una dialettica feconda tra individualismo e trama collettiva, ma è dirimente il tema dell'originalità. “Se sei come tutti gli altri, a che serve il jazz?," diceva spesso Monk. E un vero “percorso," costellato da innumerevoli stazioni, è stato quello di Don Cherry, mai del tutto soddisfatto delle sue conquiste, costantemente messe in discussione. Ammesso e non concesso che Cherry sia ...

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Liner Notes

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

Read "Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire" reviewed by Howard Mandel


Brains on Fire fuels reflection on the past and response in the present. These eight extraordinary extended tracks, recorded in unusual conjunctions of master jazz improvisers instigated by composer/pianist Heiner Stadler for sessions held from 1966 through 1974, are alive with the passions of that era celebrating large, original works stretching the bounds of even the most ambitious music come before. As Stadler and his cadre of fully collaborative, creative interpreters brought immense smarts, skills and sensibilities besides ...

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Album Review

Albert Mangelsdorff: Albert Mangelsdorff And His Friends

Read "Albert Mangelsdorff And His Friends" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The afterlife for Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer's storied MPS Records has been tough to track. After Brunner-Schwer sold the rights to Philips in the early '80s, the label changed hands several times--Polydor picked it up and passed it through a subsidiary, Universal Music Group acquired its holdings, Speakers Corner Records took over on the vinyl side of the equation, and then Edel AG finally acquired it in 2014. Now, in an effort to make the most out of this German imprint's ...

Album Review

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

Read "Brains on Fire" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Heiner Stadler è nome pressoché sconosciuto se non agli addetti ai lavori o a qualche curioso appassionato jazzofilo. Nasce nel 1942 a Lessen in Polonia, cresce ad Amburgo dove studia pianoforte, armonia e composizione al conservatorio, per poi trasferirsi nel 1965 a New York. Qui intesse una serie di relazioni con importanti musicisti dal background assai variegato (si va sa Benny Golson a Barre Phillips, da Joe Chambers a John Gilmore e Joe Farrell, da Dee Dee Bridgewater a Thad ...

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Extended Analysis

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

Read "Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Heiner StadlerBrains on FireLabor Records2012One of the most exciting reissues of the first quarter of 2012 is composer and pianist Heiner Stadler's pioneering Brains on Fire, originally released in 1973. The two-CD reissue adds three lengthy, previously unreleased tracks and informative and well-researched liner notes by critic Howard Mandel. Interestingly, Stadler occupies the piano chair only on five of the eight pieces, recorded over a seven-year span in a ...

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Multiple Reviews

Albert Mangelsdorff: Originals, Vol. 1 & 2

Read "Albert Mangelsdorff: Originals, Vol. 1 & 2" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


Albert MangelsdorffOriginals Vol. 1MPS-Universal2008 Albert MangelsdorffOriginals Vol. 2MPS-Universal2008 It is often difficult to present comprehensive career overviews on musicians given most's peripatetic label representation. Legendary German trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff however enjoyed a remarkably fruitful relationship with the MPS label from 1968 to 1982, resulting in over a dozen albums under his sole or co-leadership. ...

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Album Review

Brötzmann - Mangelsdorff - Sommer: Pica Pica

Read "Pica Pica" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


I rapporti tra lo straordinario trombonista Albert Mangelsdorff - scomparso nel luglio del 2005 - e i suoi connazionali che hanno esplorato le tecniche più radicali dell'improvvisazione è tutto sommato sottostimato, frainteso, ancora da analizzare in modo compiuto. Certo, per differenza generazionale e sotto il profilo dello sviluppo personale il musicista di Francoforte ha una storia ben diversa da quella di Peter Brötzmann e soci, ma è sintomatico ad esempio come Mike Hennessey, dedicando a Mangelsdorff un lungo articolo sulle ...


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