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Rhythm Future Quartet: Travels

Read "Travels" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Hanno preso il nome da un brano di Django Reinhardt i quattro componenti di quest'organico manouche, che si distanzia dalle formazioni modellate sull'Hot Club de France e vuol gettare uno sguardo al futuro. Troppo spesso lo stile inventato da Reinhart e Grappelli nella Parigi del primo Novecento è stato conservato sotto una campana di vetro. Riproposto nel tempo in una logica di repertorio, quando lo stesso Django, prima di morire, aveva dimostrato di saper trovare nuove forme espressive. ...

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The Rhythm Future Quartet at The Evening Muse

Read "The Rhythm Future Quartet at The Evening Muse" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


The Rhythm Future Quartet The Evening Muse Charlotte, NC April 23, 2016 The Rhythm Future Quartet plays Gypsy jazz with one eye towards the past and the other towards the present. They've got the style, they've got the chops, and they're not afraid to try new things. As one of a series of shows billed as album release parties for their second release Travels, much of the program was taken from there. Bassist Greg ...

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Album Review

Rhythm Future Quartet: Travels

Read "Travels" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Gypsy jazz started, in terms of popular recognition, with guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli, and their lively and supremely swinging Qunintette du Hot Club du France. The group recorded hundreds of tunes in the thirties and and forties, released on the 78 rpm discs that were the recorded music mode at the time, and left a lasting and perhaps unmatchable legacy. Drawing deeply on that legacy, the Rhythm Future Quartet does its part by pushing the ...


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