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Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach: Balladscapes
by Neri Pollastri
Se c'è un sodalizio artistico che merita di essere definito “storico," è quello tra Dave Liebman e Richie Beirach: il primo incontro tra i due -che sono quasi coetanei, il sopranista avendo solo un anno in più del pianista--avviene infatti quasi cinquant'anni fa, quando i due ancora erano studenti, ed erano assieme nel 1973 per First Visit, il primo lavoro a nome di Liebman. Da allora la collaborazione non si è mai interrotta: assieme nel quartetto Quest, con Billy Hart ...
Continue ReadingLive Trane: Never Before, Never After
by David Liebman
NEA Jazz Master and much celebrated saxophonist, composer, bandleader, educator and author Dave Liebman recounts the life-changing experiences of witnessing live performances by John Coltrane as told to Dave Kaufman. I always say my epiphany was the first time I saw Coltrane in February of 1962 at Birdland. The fact that I even knew about Birdland at 15 years old was because I was invited to go there a few months earlier by some of the older guys ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman and Michael Kaplan: How Does the Brain Make All that Jazz?
by Victor L. Schermer
With recent advances in neuroscience, the relationship between music and the brain has become the subject of new research and generated a great deal of public interest. Best sellers like Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia (Knopf, 2007) and Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton Penguin, 2006) have brought the attention of a wider public to the mysterious ways in which the billions of neurons (nerve cells) in our brain hear, process, and produce sounds that are meaningful and even ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman Group: Expansions - The Puzzle
by Neri Pollastri
Registrato nella primavera del 2015, The Puzzle documenta il lavoro dell'attuale gruppo di Dave Liebman, Expansions, composto da uno storico collaboratore del sassofonista, il bassista Tony Marino, e da giovani musicisti che--con l'eccezione del batterista -contribuiscono tutti alle composizioni. Quattro di queste sono infatti di Liebman, due dell'ancista Matt Vashlishan, due di Marino e una del pianista Bobby Avey, a cui si aggiungono un classico, “Good Bait" di Dameron e Basie, e un brano di Messiaen, il conclusivo ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman: Expansions: The Puzzle
by Budd Kopman
The Puzzle is the terrfic follow-up recording by David Liebman's new group, Expansions, the first being Samsara. No sophomore jinx here; if anything, the group has coalesced further and is even tighter. To throw out a (perhaps meaningless) label, this music could be called hyper-bop in its mix of well-placed dissonance, rhythmic displacements and the pure joy of blowing. Yes, it can get heady, but this music is anything but sterile and passion, of either high or low ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman Expansions at Chris’ Jazz Café
by Victor L. Schermer
Dave Liebman Expansions Chris' Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA March 11, 2016 The pleasure of hearing Dave Liebman with his personally honed groups is that despite or because of personnel changes, they never stop transforming and expanding in scope and depth. In this incarnation of Liebman's now legendary groups, in addition to perennial sidekick bassist Tony Marino, his crew consists of younger musicians who are nevertheless quite capable of engaging on an equal level with Liebman, ...
Continue ReadingA Day With Dave Liebman
by Ian Patterson
A Day With Dave Liebman National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland January 31, 2016 Lasting the course in jazz, that's to say, building a successful career that, just like any other job, spans more than half a lifetime, brings with it a wealth of knowledge and experience. Sharing that knowledge with young, aspiring jazz musicians has long been a part of jazz culture, even if the mentoring role of myth and legend in late-night jazz ...
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