Jazz Articles about Alexander Hawkins

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Roberto Ottaviano, Alexander Hawkins: Charlie's Blue Skylight

by Neri Pollastri
September 5, 2022

Roberto Ottaviano non poteva non celebrare il centenario della nascita di Charles Mingus, uno dei musicisti che più ha influenzato la sua poetica e al quale già aveva già dedicato un lavoro con i suoi Six Mobiles, Mingus: Portrait in Six Colours, in occasione del decennale dalla scomparsa. Lo fa in formazione minima, assieme cioè in duo con Alexander Hawkins al pianoforte e al Fender Rhodes, proponendo undici composizioni mingusiane scelte tra le più e le meno famose, interpretate in ...

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Angelika Niescier & Alexander Hawkins: Soul In Plain Sight

by John Sharpe
January 25, 2022

Some of pianist British Alexander Hawkins' most potent outings have been in the intimate duo setting. Think, for example, of Leaps In Leicester (Clean Feed, 2016) with Evan Parker or Shards And Constellations (Intakt, 2020) with cellist Tomeka Reid. To that list can be added this richly-detailed double act with the Polish-born, German-resident saxophonist Angelika Niescier. The set had its genesis in a meeting at the 2016 Berlin Jazz Festival where Hawkins had performed with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and ...

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Angelika Niescier: Soul In Plain Sight

by Glenn Astarita
January 19, 2022

Saxophonist Angelika Niescier (Poland) and pianist Alexander Hawkins (UK) share mutual admiration amid a meeting at the Berlin Jazz Fest. As we fast forward to this duet outing by these increasingly prominent Euro improvisers who recast their respective goods here, think of Language A communicating with Language B, simply using the emotive aspects and non-verbal interactions with their instruments. Here, the output solidifies into a spiritual union of rapid interpretations, cunning contrasts, and orbital characteristics where spoken word really wouldn't ...

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Alexander Hawkins / Mirror Canon: Break A Vase

by Mark Corroto
January 16, 2022

Pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins sequences the ten tracks of Break A Vase in a seemingly counterintuitive manner. The title track, which is taken from West Indian poet Derek Walcott's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, is not heard until track six; it is a solo piano performance which emulates Walcott's words, “Break a vase, and the love that re­assembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." Hawkins' solo performance on grand ...

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Marco Colonna, Alexander Hawkins: Dolphy Underlined

by Neri Pollastri
September 13, 2021

Li avevamo ascoltati e apprezzati dal vivo, ma su disco il prezioso lavoro che Marco Colonna e Alexander Hawkins effettuano sulla musica di Eric Dolphy emerge con ancora maggiore chiarezza. Dei due conosciamo bene le qualità individuali: pianista raffinato, sebbene spesso forse un po' astratto e cerebrale, Hawkins è senz'altro uno degli artisti europei oggi più interessanti; non meno raffinato e per giunta sempre accompagnato da una lucida capacità di raccontare, Colonna stupisce ogni volta per le capacità ...

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Angelika Niescier / Alexander Hawkins: Soul In Plain Sight

by Mark Corroto
August 24, 2021

Some pairings were just meant to be. Exhibit one, Soul In Plain Sight by the duo of Angelika Niescier and Alexander Hawkins. Niescier, the Polish-born Germany-based saxophonist, met the British pianist Hawkins at the Berlin Jazzfest. Their mutual admiration led to a brief tour and this recording. The music succeeds here because of the musicians' balanced approach and compatible natures. Opening with the cleanse and purge of the improvised “Brawls And Squabbles," the pair spar with push/pull jabs. Hawkins hammers ...

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Forlì Open Music 2021

by Luciano Rossetti
July 20, 2021