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Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional

Read "Song Unconditional" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 19, 2025

Heraclitus once said, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." That may be true for most of us, but it does not quite apply to the music of pianist Alexander Hawkins. Despite navigating many musical rivers--trios, quartets, large ensembles, and collaborations with visionaries like Nicole Mitchell, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton and Louis Moholo-Moholo --Hawkins remains unmistakably himself. His identity as an artist holds steady, even as ...

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Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World

Read "The Gleaming World" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2025

Belfast-based drummer-percussionist Stephen Davis' debut album for 577 Records takes its name from a line in a Seamus Heaney poem. The Irish Nobel laureate drew deeply on his rural surroundings, and, as these song titles suggest, so too has Davis. In late 2023, Davis spent time as a musician-in-residence at The Courthouse, Tinahely, in County Wicklow--an Improvised Music Company scheme that provides musicians with the support, time and space necessary to follow their artistic muse. Davis tapped into the natural ...

Interview

Alexander Hawkins: Music as a Generous Space

by Giuseppe Segala
December 3, 2024

Born in Oxford in 1981, Alexander Hawkins is one of the leading musicians of his generation and a significant figure on the contemporary international scene. Personable and approachable, he is one of the few musicians of his age who engage meaningfully with the pioneering spirit of the African-American music tradition from the 1960s onward. His stylistic versatility, proficiency, exploratory mindset, and broad expertise in diverse approaches and languages make him a sought-after collaborator. His multifaceted artistic persona and ...

Interview

Alexander Hawkins: La Musica è uno Spazio generoso

by Giuseppe Segala
November 25, 2024

Nato a Oxford nel 1981, Alexander Hawkins è musicista di punta della propria generazione e della scena contemporanea internazionale. Persona di grande disponibilità e affabilità, è tra i pochissimi musicisti che nella sua fascia di età si confrontano in modo congruo al temperamento dei pionieri che dagli anni Sessanta in poi si sono avvicendati sulla scena della musica afroamericana. È costantemente chiamato a collaborare da questi personaggi per la sua duttilità stilistica, per la preparazione, per l'attitudine a esplorare, per ...

Live Review

Jazzfest Berlin 2024

by Giuseppe Segala
November 11, 2024

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Train Jazz Club, Chiesa Monumentale Kaiser Wilhelm Jazzfest Berlin 2024 Berlino 31 ottobre--3 novembre 2024 Nel programma che celebrava il sessantesimo compleanno del Jazzfest Berlin, e che ne scandiva la sessantunesima edizione, non c'era solo musica. Ovvero, attorno al ricco e appetitoso programma di concerti, come sempre scaturiti dall'osservazione ad ampio raggio del panorama internazionale, si collocava una serie di eventi e appuntamenti che da un ...

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Roberto Ottaviano: Eternal Love People

Read "Eternal Love People" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
January 29, 2024

Fin dagli anni Ottanta, Roberto Ottaviano ha coltivato relazioni strette e feconde con la scena internazionale, particolarmente quella creativa europea. La stessa che proprio nel periodo precedente aveva sviluppato spinte notevoli, al punto da essere considerata trainante e prevalente pure dagli osservatori d'oltreoceano. Il musicista ha mantenuto e ravvivato questo rapporto, in particolare attraverso la collaborazione con Alexander Hawkins, senza dubbio la voce più dotata e consapevole tra i musicisti delle generazioni recenti che tengono legami con quella scena, oggi ...

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Alexander Hawkins Trio With Neil Charles And Stephen Davis: Carnival Celestial

Read "Carnival Celestial" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
May 28, 2023

The laws of probability dictate that if three musicians spend enough time together a trio recording will eventually arise. Pianist Alexander Hawkins, bassist Neil Charles and drummer Stephen Davis have clocked up many a road mile since forming in 2012. They have also recorded together in various settings, notably on the Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener album UpRoot (Intakt, 2017), with Anthony Braxton on Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House, 2021) and on Alexander Hawkins/Mirror Cannon's Break a Vase (Intakt, 2022), which ...