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Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
by Scott Gudell
Although ECM Records has released straight-ahead jazz, free form and more, many of their recordings sweep over listeners with mysterious, ethereal and hypnotic sounds creating alluring siren calls. When those sessions are taking place with an ECM release on the horizon, it is easy to imagine the artists are thinking about 'where's the mystery?'--which is what Anouar Brahem seemed to focus on this time around. Brahem, a revered Tunisian-born master of the oud (the fretless stringed instrument with ...
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by Mario Calvitti
Fin dal suo esordio la musica del suonatore di oud tunisino Anouar Brahem ha oscillato tra i tre poli della musica tradizionale classica araba, l'improvvisazione jazzistica e la musica classica europea di stampo cameristico, generalmente adattando le quantità di ogni singolo componente ai musicisti scelti per interpretarla. Dopo i primi due album nei quali aveva proposto essenzialmente la propria versione della musica classica araba, accompagnato da musicisti e strumenti di quella tradizione, Brahem si è via via spostato ...
Continue Reading2013 Says "Hi"
by Patrick Burnette
The venerable bastards have made it to their twelfth anniversary, so time to dress us in silk and pearls (if you weren't already in your fantasies). While you attempt to scrub that hideous image from your minds, we'll mention that today's episode looks back to 2013, the origin year of the podcast, covering five releases from that epochal year we missed. Can you guess who appears for the first time on the 'cast and exactly which ways he's oriented?
Continue ReadingLionel Loueke & Dave Holland: United
by Ian Patterson
Why did they not think of this before? A fair question. But as the Greek poet Homer put it, even a fool is wise after the event. “Why did you not think of it before?," Homer might have retorted. Yes, the music on United is so sublime, so natural sounding, that guitarist Lionel Loueke and bassist Dave Holland seem like old duo soulmates. The truth, however, is different. While the pair have played together in various settings, they had never ...
Continue ReadingThe Dave Holland New Quartet at Smoke Jazz Club
by Paul Reynolds
The Dave Holland New Quartet Smoke Jazz & Supper Club New York, NYSeptember 6, 2024 The Friday late set at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club by the Dave Holland New Quartet began and ended with selections that strutted the bassist's strongest compositional suit--originals with a twirling head (as in a melodic theme) interspersed with solos that dance between harmonic calm and “out" exploration. If the middle of the set was less compelling--with its shift into ...
Continue ReadingJohn Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette: Gateway
by Mike Jurkovic
Maybe in a world a-tuned to the sound of people seeking their own expressive modal dialogue to negotiate, barter, pray or prevent the king's rise, Gateway would have been the greatest jazz guitar trio album ever made. It certainly feels that way when one slips this handsome disc from its wrappings, handle gently to the turntable, and set the stylus down. It is like 1975 again (the good parts anyway): the head high, the mood mellow. Maybe one ...
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