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Elisabeth Harnik / Zlatko Kaučič: One Foot In The Air
by John Sharpe
Most jazz lovers will likely remember an occasion when the musicians played as if their lives depended on it to an almost empty room. Judging from the applause, the audience on 14 June 2022 at Kulturhalle Eggersdorf in Austria was not the biggest, but those present were lucky enough to witness a veritable feast of improvised music. Doing the honors were Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik and Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič. Although a respected composer Harnik is also a fearless improviser, ...
Continue ReadingSteve Swell: Dances With Questions
by John Sharpe
American trombonist Steve Swell plays to the strengths of his talented cast of improvisers on the sprawling multifaceted Dances With Questions, a three-CD box set which documents his three day residency at the 2019 Krakow Jazz Autumn. The center piece is the 70-minute title cut for a dozen musicians, but the album also includes two discs of small group encounters captured in the city's legendary Alchemia club during the previous evenings. Swell, a veteran of the New York ...
Continue ReadingElisabeth Harnik, Zlatko Kaučič: One Foot in the Air
by Neri Pollastri
Registrato il 14 giugno 2022 alla Kulturhalle di Eggersdorf, in Austria, questo disco documenta un concerto interamente improvvisato andato in scena per la rassegna Musik in Krumegg, protagonisti la pianista austriaca Elisabeth Harnik e il batterista e percussionista sloveno Zlatko Kaučič. Il singolare titolo trova spiegazione nelle foto interne alla copertina, che ritraggono il batterista disteso sotto il pianoforte, a produrre suoni con le spazzole dalla cassa inferiore dello strumento, con un piede sollevato in aria. Una delle situazioni non ...
Continue ReadingElisabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang: Dream Disobedience
by John Sharpe
On Dream Disobedience American drummer Michael Zerang and Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik head way out left field, treating their instruments as noise generators in a duet captured live at the Sound Disobedience Festival, in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, in March 2019. Zerang may be best known as a member of Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and one third of {Joe McPhee}}'s Survival Unit III, but he also plays with the likes of Ed Wilkerson, Hamid Drake and Steve ...
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