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Dolomiti Ski Jazz 2016
by Paolo Peviani
Dolomiti Ski Jazz Val di Fiemme 12-19.03.2016 L'inverno 2015-2016 è stato tra i più caldi e asciutti degli ultimi anni. Nonostante ciò, piste preparate al meglio, unite a tardive e provvidenziali nevicate, hanno comunque permesso al Dolomiti Ski Jazz di mantenere intatta la propria vocazione sciistico-musicale. Come di consueto, il programma del festival si è articolato lungo due direttrici. Quella dei concerti nei rifugi e nelle strutture alberghiere, rivolta all'intrattenimento dei ...
Continue ReadingBlackstar
by Nenad Georgievski
The 10-year long absence from the limelight clearly didn't dim singer David Bowie's sense of guile or invention. That was clearly evident with the sudden reappearance with the utterly brilliant The Next Day which pilot single “Where Are We Now?" appeared from nowhere on his birthday and delighting many people along the way. In a career that has lasted for 50 years, Bowie has always refused to be pigeonholed and with Blackstar that is set to continue. Many years into ...
Continue ReadingDonny McCaslin: Fast Future
by Luca Muchetti
Il “futuro veloce" che Donny McCaslin ci racconta nel suo ultimo album è un universo estremamente composito e, per chi ha ascoltato le precedenti avventure musicali del sassofonista statunitense, non privo di sorprese. Sorprese e voglia di osare. Sì perché nelle pieghe, larghissime, di questa decina di pezzi, è decisamente ampio il ventaglio di scelte sulle quali -è facile intuire -il produttore David Binney ha avuto un ruolo di primissimo piano, tanto che la tentazione sarebbe quasi ...
Continue ReadingDonny McCaslin: Fast Future
by Mark F. Turner
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin brought a fresh perspective to the acoustic-electronic jazz soundscape with 2012's Casting for Gravity (Greenleaf Music) which earned a Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Jazz Solo" for the track “Stadium Jazz." Thankfully it was not a one-off as McCaslin reassembles the tightly knit band and savvy production from saxophonist David Binney in Fast Future, a release that continues the groove factor. Like its predecessor, the music pulsates with energy as McCaslin's tenor powers over ...
Continue ReadingDonny McCaslin: Casting for Gravity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Splendidamente prodotto da David Binney e pubblicato dall'etichetta di Dave Douglas Casting for Gravity è il disco - molto curato sia sotto l'aspetto prettamente formale che espressivo - con il quale Donny McCaslin dà ulteriore prova di duttilità compositiva e riuscita d'insieme. Il leader si mostra in forma olimpica nell'iniziale “Stadium Jazz," dove mette a segno un paio di soli dall'ottimo impatto melodico; risulta più introverso e pronto nel prendere tangenti meno prevedibili in “Says Who"; sa farsi da parte ...
Continue ReadingDonny McCaslin: Lightness and Gravity
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin seems like a young player, given his energy and inventiveness. But he has been playing jazz for three decades. As a child, he was part of his father's jazz ensemble and a member of his high school jazz band. He led his own bands after moving to New York from his native California, but also did considerable sideman duty. In particular, McCaslin broke into the highest ranks of critical acclaim thanks to his turns with bandleader Maria ...
Continue ReadingDonny McCaslin: Casting For Gravity
by Glenn Astarita
Incorporating electronic instrumentation into his palette, tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin dishes out a thrusting program that could, to some extent, be nestled within the jazz-fusion genre, but not in the traditional sense. The hard-hitting saxophonist and his band integrate fusion mechanics and spacey treatments to underscore many of the popping grooves, thundering pulses, knotty time signatures and progressive-jazz type soloing exchanges with keyboardist Jason Lindner. But McCaslin doesn't engage technical gymnastics or complexities simply for the sake of it.
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