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Keith Jarrett - Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jarrett e Haden si sono incontrati in diverse occasioni negli anni Settanta, ma mai in duo, quindi Jasmine può essere considerata -anche solo per questo- una novità nell'ormai omologata produzione jarrettiana che da molti anni si limita al trio, ad altre centellinate sortite solistiche e poco altro. Del resto il pianista nei suoi quarantacinque anni di carriera ha scremato con acume e estrema selettività non solo un'estetica personale ma anche le sue frequentazioni. Tra i jazzisti sembra trovare le sue ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
In the world of jazz, it's often said that “live is better." The immediacy and spontaneity of a living, breathing, and hopefully rapt audience can lend electricity to a recording foray. For pianist Keith Jarrett, this may be truer than it is for most artists. His Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette has been an almost exclusively “recorded live affair," other than the notable exceptions of his initial 1983 session with the group that resulted in ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by John Kelman
As close to a direct pipeline to the heart as anything, it's hard for music to be anything but intimate reflection of events transpiring in a musician's life. Pianist Keith Jarrett's last release--the stunning triple-disc Testament--Paris / London (ECM, 2009)--was, self-admittedly, impacted by the pianist's “incredibly vulnerable emotional state," but resulted in some of his deepest, most moving solo improvisations yet. Recorded in 2007, the year before the shows from which Testament was culled, the song choices on Jasmine--Jarrett's first ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell’album di famiglia c’è posto per tutti. Ci sono papà Carl e mamma Virginia. I fratelli maggiori, Carl Jr. e Jim. Poi un piccolissimo Charlie che sorride. Si va avanti, e foto dopo foto, di generazione in generazione ecco spuntare figli, moglie e amici. Charlie Haden a 71 anni riparte dai ricordi. Riparte da quando, a due anni suonati, cantava in radio “Old Haden Family Show” o da quando con i suoi genitori “Uncle Carl & Mary Jane” sbarcava il ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Haden: The Private Collection
by AAJ Italy Staff
The Private Collection documenta due concerti hadeniani tenuti nel 1987 e 1988, ora tirati fuori dall’archivio privato del contrabbassista per la realizzazione di questo doppio CD, consigliabile ai fan più fedeli del Quartet West. Una macchina di suono perfettamente oleata, in cui niente è fuori posto per via di dinamiche e processi d’insieme ottimizzati nel corso di un ventennio di carriera concertistica e discografica. Troviamo, insomma, un piacevole percorso post-boppistico, proposto con indubbia classe e maestria ma senza il fuoco ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy
by John Kelman
There was a time when family entertainment often consisted of coming together to sing and play; when music was not just an oral tradition but a means of engendering familial closeness. A time long past, it contrasts with the contemporary reality of disenfranchised children, in no small part the result of a society where double incomes and relinquishing responsibility for raising a family has become the norm. Bassist Charlie Haden knows the value of family. Before he was the groundbreaking ...
Continue ReadingOttawa Jazz Festival 2008: Days 7-8, June 26-27, 2008
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 | Days 10-11
Return to Forever / Charlie Haden Quartet West TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 26-27, 2008
It was certainly the most eagerly anticipated show of the 2008 TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival and, with 11,500 eager fans squeezing into Confederation Park, it was also the highest attendance for any show in ...
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