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Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission

Read "Distant Radio Transmission" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 22, 2021

Decisamente prolifico, in anni recenti, Roscoe Mitchell, e non ce ne rallegreremo mai abbastanza. Certo, con lui c'è sempre il rischio del prodotto non perfettamente a fuoco, centrato, in poche parole all'altezza del suo grande talento (e ormai, varcata la soglia degli ottanta, acclarato magistero, e da un po'), ma per fortuna non è questo il caso: in questo lavoro con la Ostravska Banda così felicemente articolato è in qualche modo raccolto, quintessenziato, il succo del suo sapere (e ardire) ...

Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission

Read "Distant Radio Transmission" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 10, 2020

Sometimes music makes you want to become a better dancer, or maybe even a better lover. With Roscoe Mitchell's music, you can't help but aspire to be a better listener. The co-founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians creates sounds that transcend jazz, new classical, and avant-garde musics. With Distant Radio Transmission he presents music that he previously recorded (solo or in small improvising groups) and reworked for a 33-piece orchestra, ...

Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission

Read "Distant Radio Transmission" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 15, 2020

Roscoe Mitchell, a co-founder of the AACM and Art Ensemble of Chicago, continues to discover new intersections of jazz, classical and avant-garde music with Distant Radio Transmission. As he approaches eighty years of age Mitchell has waved off time and tradition, reinventing the AEoC brand with the orchestrated--sometimes operatic--We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (Pi Recordings, 2019), a project that bore little resemblance to the group's historical discography. On this album, he draws on past compositions to ...

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Live Review

Dana Reason Trio: Bellingham, Washington July 24, 2010

by Michael Boyce
August 29, 2010

Dana Reason TrioThe Amadeus ProjectBellingham, WashingtonJuly 24, 2010 The Dana Reason Trio's recent Angle of Vision Tour performance in Bellingham, Washington consisted mostly of new material, which they were preparing to record a couple of days later at Wild Rose Artists' Studio in Oregon. Dana Reason has an accomplished background as both a classical and avant-garde composer and pianist, working and recording with such musicians as Cecil Taylor, Pauline Oliveros, George E. ...

Album Review

Dana Reason Trio: Revealed

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 9, 2010

La copertina di Revealed poteva far pensare al disco di un'epigona della ormai diva Diana Krall. Stesso glamour un po' patinato, stessa origine (entrambi canadesi), stesso strumento (pianoforte), stessa formazione (il classico piano-trio) e stesso nome ...o quasi (c'è di mezzo una piccola i). Poi leggi i compagni di viaggio (Dominic Duval al contrabbasso, John Heward alla batteria), e intuisci che le analogie finiscono lì. Registrato nel lontano giugno 2004 a Montreal, Revealed è stato opportunamente ripescato e pubblicato, e ...