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Dorota Piotrowska, Seamus Blake, Elsa Nilsson, Christian Dillingham & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Two ways to pay tribute to Eddie Harris, and other discoveries from the new releases vault.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Seamus Blake Mean Greens" The Electrifying Seamus Blake--EH! (Cellar Live) 0:16 Host talks 6:11 Slow Poke Listen Here" At Home (Baby Tank) 7:25 Host talks 14:59 Dorota Piotrowska & Sound Circle Upon" Voices of Human Consciousness (Inner Circle Music) 16:40 Christian Dillingham Special Relativity" As It Relates ...
Continue Reading...New Music From Dorota Piotrowska, Josh Warren And More
by Bob Osborne
A quietly adventurous thread runs through this edition of World of Jazz, tracing how improvisers and composers adapt their music into something reflective yet forward leaning. Most of the selections are selected from extant releases that show where exploratory music is heading--flute driven improvisations, spacious rhythmic architectures, pointed small group dialogues and electronic inflections. The playlist also includes two earlier innovators, a specific reminder that today's practitioners are working inside a continuum shaped by those players who expanded the language ...
Continue Reading...Dorota Piotrowska: Jazz With International Voices
by R.J. DeLuke
As a child in Poland, Dorota Piotrowska was musical. She played piano and listened to records of music from America that her father was fond of, like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Queen. At age seven her piano studies centered on classical music, as is the case with most kids taking up the instrument. But in high school, she had a friend who played in a band of his peers. She was invited to attend a rehearsal. There ...
Continue Reading...Dorota Piotrowska & Sound Circle feat. Greg Osby: Voices of Human Consciousness
by Alberto Bazzurro
La quarantaduenne batterista polacca Dorota Piotrowska riunisce in questo ambizioso album un supergruppo in cui spicca il sax alto di Greg Osby, accanto ad altri strumentisti tutti di livello dal buono in su, che --ciascuno con le proprie specificità--contribuiscono alla riuscita del lavoro, composito, articolato, fra episodi più squisitamente jazzistici e altri in cui i luoghi di provenienza dei musicisti coinvolti (in totale si toccano Stati Uniti, Polonia, Libano, Cuba e Norvegia) assumono il giusto peso. Nel complesso ...
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