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Live From Philadelphia

March 2013: Billy Hart Quartet

Read "March 2013: Billy Hart Quartet" reviewed by RJ Johnson


Billy Hart QuartetPhiladelphia Art AlliancePhiladelphia, PAMarch 20, 2013The music of the Billy Hart Quartet demonstrates a thorough amalgamation of intriguingly disparate musical elements which retains both the mastery of a group of accomplished veterans and the perpetually transformative nature of a leader dedicated to a lifetime of artistic pursuits. The ensemble, consisting of drummer Hart, bassist Ben Street, pianist Ethan Iverson and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, has been Hart's working band since ...

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Album Review

Billy Hart: All Our Reasons

Read "All Our Reasons" reviewed by John Kelman


In a career spanning work with saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and trumpeter Miles Davis to pianists Tommy Flanagan and Marian McPartland, drummer Billy Hart has pretty much seen it all, from the most centrist mainstream to the outer reaches of free playing and beyond. But as he approaches 72 later in 2012, there's one thing Hart hasn't done--until now. All Our Reasons represents the first time the veteran drummer has reunited the same band as on a previous recording, in this ...

Album Review

Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story

Read "True Story" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Questo CD è fatto di finezze. L'iniziale “The Other Night" detta le regole. Il richiamo di note è suadente. Keith Jarrett al meglio dell'ispirazione? Chissà. Le poche note ripetute e poi esaltate dai lievi sibili percussivi di Billy Hart sembrano riassumere i silenzi di notte solitarie e introspettive. “La musica parla più delle parole," recita il press kit del disco. E migliore incipit non avrebbe potuto essere immaginato. Notti insonni, coraggiose e anche un po' misteriose, insomma. Il pianista francese ...

Album Review

Billy Hart Trio: Live at the Cafe Damberd

Read "Live at the Cafe Damberd" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Batterista tra i più stimati e richiesti del jazz contemporaneo, Billy Hart ha inciso relativamente poco in veste di leader: di fronte a più di cinquecento partecipazioni discografiche, le registrazioni a suo nome sono meno di dieci, spesso difficilmente reperibili. Risulta quindi particolarmente gradito questo bel disco della Enja, che vede Hart dal vivo in Belgio nel famoso jazz club di Gent citato nel titolo. Con lui suonano due tra i migliori strumentisti tedeschi della generazione di mezzo, che hanno ...

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Live Review

Billy Hart Quintet at The Rubin Museum of Art

Read "Billy Hart Quintet at The Rubin Museum of Art" reviewed by Richard Ryan


The Billy Hart Academy featuring Theo Croker The Rubin Museum of Art / JVC Jazz Festival New York, New York June 20, 2008

The Billy Hart Academy's outstanding show, on a Friday evening at New York's Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art as part of the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival, confirmed the best aspects of both the players and the celebrated music festival that began at Newport. Hart's storied prowess as a drummer has, ...

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Album Review

Bennie Maupin: The Jewel In The Lotus

Read "The Jewel In The Lotus" reviewed by Budd Kopman


For the collector, a first-time issue on CD of any of ECM's early releases is most welcome. Which ones are chosen for release--and when they are issued--may well appear to be arbitrary to the outsider, despite a certain plan internal to the label.That The Jewel In The Lotus, first released in 1974, has finally been issued on CD is worth celebrating for two reasons: first, the music is of the highest quality; and second, Bennie Maupin has not ...

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Album Review

Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus

Read "The Jewel in the Lotus" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Non mi stupirebbe che, in una delle tante trasmissioni televisive che si occupano di misteri, proponessero un servizio sul perché The Jewel in the Lotus di Bennie Maupin sia rimasto per così tanto tempo privato dell'onore della ristampa in CD. Artista appartenente alla scena di Detroit, Maupin ha attraversato in modo poco appariscente, ma in realtà intenso, le vicende del jazz contemporaneo a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni Sessanta, comparendo a fianco di Marion Brown, McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, ...


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