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Edward Simon: 25 Years

Read "25 Years" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Al pubblico del jazz non piacciono molto le compilations ma questa del pianista Edward Simon è speciale. I diciassette brani del doppio CD sono stati scelti da lui--come bilancio e riflessione personale nel 25° anno della sua attività da leader--e forniscono una variopinta retrospettiva delle sue tappe musicali. «L'idea mi è venuta l'anno scorso (2019) quando ho compito 50 anni--ha detto al Columbia Daily Tribune--La raccolta è nata da uno spirito di celebrazione e dalla consapevolezza di quante cose siano ...

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Edward Simon: 25 Years

Read "25 Years" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Edward Simon immigrated to the United States from his native Venezuela while still in his teens. He stayed, and carved out a successful career in music. His fiftieth birthday rolled around, and the artist decided it was time to take a look and listen back. In a musical journey that spans the titular 25 Years, Simon has crafted a lot of music, employing a Latin/jazz/classical approach with a seemingly effortless refinement, making sounds that are unfailingly engaging and beautiful. ...

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Avishai Cohen: Arvoles

Read "Arvoles" reviewed by Emmanuel Di Tommaso


Il leit-motiv di Arvoles è chiaro fin dall'iniziale “Simonero" nonostante gli sconvolgimenti di ritmi, di tempi e di scenari siano una costante del disco: le atmosfere noir dipinte dal contrabbasso di Avishai Cohen si evolvono verso tonalità più calde attraverso la percussività del piano di Elchin Shirinov e della batteria di Noham David. Questa nuova formula del trio unito ai raid di fiati di Anders Hagberg e di Bjorn Samuelsson, votati a disperdere la costruzione melodica rendendo il ...

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Avishai Cohen Trio at Tonhalle Dusseldorf

Read "Avishai Cohen Trio at Tonhalle Dusseldorf" reviewed by Phillip Woolever


Avishai Cohen Trio Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Germany December 6, 2019 Avishai Cohen is embarking on a global birthday tour next year, including many dates with this current trio formation of long time drummer and fellow Israeli Noam David and pianist Elchin Shirinov from Azerbaijan. Considering that the group started presenting most of the album Arvoles (Razdaz Recordz 2019) recently, this was probably a prime time to catch them in terms of both well-honed repertoire ...

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Avishai Cohen: Arvoles

Read "Arvoles" reviewed by Roger Farbey


In the late 1990s, bassist Avishai Cohen was living and working in New York, having arrived a few years earlier from Israel. Out of the blue he received a phone call from Chick Corea which effectively changed his life. Not only did Corea offer Cohen a recording contract on the pianist's Stretch label, he also invited him to join him in a new acoustic group, Origins. This association culminated in a handful of albums between 1997 and 2000, with both ...

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Avishai Cohen: Into the Silence

Read "Into the Silence" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Titolo rivelatore se mai album ne ebbe uno: dentro e intorno al silenzio questo ragguardevole lavoro del trentottenne trombettista israeliano si muove e individua la sua stessa ragion d'essere. Intendiamoci: di silenzio, in senso cageano o meno, non ce n'è affatto, e tuttavia è--filosoficamente e poeticamente--questo il punto di partenza (e forse d'arrivo) del disco, nella misura in cui come anelito di (e tensione verso il) silenzio s'intenda un senso di spogliamento, di prosciugamento, di essenzialità e totale assenza di ...

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Skopje Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Skopje Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Skopje Jazz Festival 2015 MOB Skopje, Macedonia October 15-18, 2015 Always in the news and perennially in either political or economic turmoil, Macedonia is not the easiest place to live. Conflicts, poverty, crisis. Even now in 2015 it was not spared from problems as it was on a trail of hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the troubles in Syria and Iraq. Amidst all of these circumstances, problems and troublesome ...


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