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Adam Meckler: Magnificent Madness
by Angelo Leonardi
Non so se Minneapolis è considerata “provincia" nel vasto territorio statunitense (nel campo del jazz certamente si, rispetto ai poli storici di New York, Los Angeles e Chicago) ma spesso dalla provincia giungono alte prove di creatività. Il trombettista, educatore e bandleader Adam Meckler deve ancora trovare ampi riconoscimenti ma il suo debutto orchestrale del 2014 (When The Clouds Look Like This) e un paio di lavori in quintetto hanno evidenziato le sue doti di fantasioso solista e orchestratore. Come ...
Continue ReadingAdam Meckler Quintet: Wander
by Vic Albani
Secondo album in quintetto per Adam Meckler, talentuoso trombettista di Minneapolis, già messosi in luce con la sua “Orchestra," combo di diciotto elementi più volte citato da molti articolisti statunitensi come una delle migliori nuove realtà del jazz a stelle e strisce degli ultimi anni. Il lavoro, edito dall'attenta Shifting Paradigm Records, è stato registrato dal vivo in tre differenti serate in tre diversi locali del mid-west americano. “Post-bop di provincia," ha scritto qualcuno di quegli articolisti, ...
Continue ReadingAdam Meckler Orchestra: When The Clouds Look Like This
by Dan Bilawsky
The image that adorns the cover of When The Clouds Look Like This--three weathered valves rising from the mist, a finger button inexplicably missing from the middle valve--is something of a mystery. Is it a riddle? A metaphor of some sort? Or is it simply an image that appealed to these musicians? Only those involved with the project can answer those questions, but the cover is certainly thought provoking, just like the music that sits beneath it. ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Adam Meckler
by AAJ Staff
Meet Adam Meckler: Trumpeter, composer and educator Adam Meckler graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI in 2007 with a degree in trumpet performance and an emphasis in jazz studies. He was a member of LU's Down Beat award-winning Jazz Ensemble (2007) and studied privately under the direction of critically acclaimed composer and educator Fred Sturm. He was the recipient of LU's prestigious jazz composition award being inducted in to the Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society, and Phi Mu Alpha ...
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