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Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain, Chris Potter: Good Hope

Read "Good Hope" reviewed by Emmanuel Di Tommaso

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
October 14, 2019

Un frammento di mare aperto increspato dalle correnti e attraversato, al centro, da una successione di lettere che compongono il titolo del disco, Good Hope, e i nomi dei suoi autori: Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain e Chris Potter, membri componenti del Crosscurrents Trio. Fin dall'immagine di copertina, il disco esprime un senso di libertà selvaggia, di assenza di confini, di unione di molteplici e complessi elementi. I componenti del Crosscurrents Trio si conoscono da diversi anni e alcuni ...

Radio & Podcasts

Charles Rumback, Kuzu and More

by Maurice Hogue
April 24, 2019

There's a slight Chicago flavour to this episode. Drummer Charles Rumback hooked up with noted New Orleans bassist James Singleton for Rumback's latest recording, Cadillac Turns. In an odd twist of strange, Singleton approached a jet-lagged Rumback in a bar in Sydney Australia and said he had seen Rumback playing in a Chicago bar a few nights earlier. Turns out Rumback had seen Singleton there as well, but didn't approach the bassist who has been a favourite of the drummer ...

Year in Review

Il Meglio del 2018 Secondo Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
January 29, 2019

Anche quest'anno, faticosamente e responsabilmente, ho selezionato tra i miei numerosi ascolti dodici dischi e dieci concerti che potessero essere considerati se non “i migliori," quantomeno “tra i migliori." La selezione è fatalmente influenzata non solo dalle mie predilezioni (non si può ascoltar tutto e fatalmente ci si concentra su ciò che per qualche ragione ci incuriosisce di più), ma anche da aspetti contingenti, quali il fatto che vivendo in Italia ho più occasioni di ascoltare musicisti che vivono qui ...

Album Review

Dave Holland: Uncharted Territories

Read "Uncharted Territories" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
October 6, 2018

Bassist extraordinaire Dave Holland's album Uncharted Territories embraces the avantgarde creed of exploration and innovation over chord progressions. Along with master musicians saxophonist Evan Parker, keyboardist Craig Taborn, and percussionist Ches Smith, Holland and crew fashion one sonic twist after the next in a progression of 23 tracks, 20 of which are recorded improvisations. The “double" album allows each of the musicians plenty of room to awe the listener with soundscapes that seem to dissolve and reform. Light ...

Live Review

Festival International De Jazz De Montréal 2018: Part 2

by Mark Sullivan
July 13, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 2018 Festival International de Jazz de MontréalVarious VenuesMontréal, Canada July 3-7, 2018 It is always a pleasure to return to Montréal for the festival. This is only my third year, which makes me a relative newcomer; many of the journalists I have met have been regulars for ten or twenty years. But I have always felt welcome, and experienced hands have freely shared their knowledge with me. I ...

Live Review

Verona Jazz Festival 2018

by Angelo Leonardi
June 27, 2018

Dave Holland--Zakir Hussein--ChrisPotter / Gianni Coscia--Gianluigi Trovesi Verona Jazz Festival Teatro Romano 22, 24.06.2018 Dal variopinto programma di Verona Jazz 2018 abbiamo selezionato due concerti particolarmente significativi: il magistrale trio di Dave Holland al contrabbasso, Chris Potter ai sassofoni e Zakir Hussain alle tabla e il classico duo tra il fisarmonicista Gianni Coscia e il clarinettista Gianluigi Trovesi. Ospitato come di consueto al Teatro Romano, nell'ambito dell'Estate Teatrale Veronese, il festival è stato organizzato ...

Live Review

Dave Holland Residency at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
April 9, 2018

Dave Holland SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA March 22-25, 2018 Dave Holland took the stage with a smile, an appropriate beginning to a four-night residency at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, California, one which would see him transition from solo to duo to trio to quartet. Holland has created innumerable albums and CDs, including his solo bass recordings Emerald Tears (ECM, 1977) Ones All (ECM, 1993) and Life Cycle (Intuition Music, 1982), a solo ...