Jazz Articles about Elliott Sharp

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Nella mastodontica discografia (quasi duecento album incisi, la maggior parte dei quali per l'etichetta londinese Leo Records) di Ivo Perelman, storico sassofonista di origine brasiliana, mancava un triplo CD dedicato all'arte del duo sax-chitarra. Ecco quindi Trifecta dialogo a rete libera con tre dei massimi chitarristi della scena contemporanea quali Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Joe Morris. Un confronto con lo strumento praticato fin da giovanissima età e poi abbandonato per la difficoltà nel trovare una voce personale, qualità che riconosce ...

Album Review

Sergio Armaroli: Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

Read "Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
June 2, 2026

Sulla scorta del suo amore e dei suoi studi su John Cage, Sergio Armaroli raccoglie attorno a sé un quintetto di straordinari musicisti per ricreare (non sapremmo in quale altro modo definire questa che è ben più di una rilettura) uno spettacolo radiofonico che il visionario musicista statunitense mandò in onda il 31 maggio 1942, musicando il radiodramma di Kenneth Patchen The City Wears a Slouch Hat. All'epoca Cage illustrò le scene del radiodramma --una serie di incontri ...

Album Review

Perelman / Ribot / Sharp / Morris: Trifecta

Read "Trifecta" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 19, 2026

With a discography approaching 200 releases, it might be tempting to imagine saxophonist Ivo Perelman as a kind of jazz gunfighter, in the lineage of Charlie Parker or Coleman Hawkins, stepping into one cutting contest after another. But that image misses the mark. Perelman's recordings are rarely about competition. Instead, they are grounded in creation, collaboration and deep musical partnership. The closest he comes to that rough-and-tumble spirit is in his long-running exchanges with pianist Matthew Shipp, where the intensity ...

Liner Notes

Sergio Armaroli Quintet: Follow A Very Heavy Person

by Mark Corroto
May 24, 2025

Time, as a concept, transforms into an endless playground in the hands of Sergio Armaroli. In Follow A Very Heavy Person, the quintet expands upon the foundations laid in Introducing A Very Heavy Person, delving deeper into the sonic and philosophical dimensions of John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's 1942 experimental radio play, The City Wears A Slouch Hat. Emerging from the same recording session, this second volume extends and reinvents its predecessor's exploration of simultaneity, improvisation and the ephemeral nature ...

Liner Notes

Sergio Armaroli: Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2025

If you reject the assumption that time is linear, the ability to conceive of a time machine is simple. Assume for this discussion that the concepts of past, present, and future are a false dichotomy. In other words, the past and the future simultaneously occur with the present. Composer and percussionist Sergio Armaroli accepts this premise and his quintet accomplishes a rather time-less travel through twelve tracks. Let's back up a bit. In his career, Armaroli has been ...

Album Review

Elliott Sharp - Sally Gates - Tashi Dorji: Ere Guitar

Read "Ere Guitar" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 9, 2024

There is an art to arranging the guests at a dinner party or wedding reception. One wants to foster interesting conversations, sometimes between strangers, and create new friendships. The same can be said of Ere Guitar, a party organized by Downtown legend Elliott Sharp. The guitarist had previously released Err Guitar (Intakt, 2017) with his colleagues American guitarists Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot. With this 2023 recording, Sharp invited New Zealand guitarist Sally Gates, who is a member of the ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman: Artificial Intelligence

Read "Artificial Intelligence" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz

by Jeff Schwartz
May 4, 2023

Do not be misled by the title: no bots or algorithms were involved in creating this album. While there have been fascinating experiments in improvisation with interactive software by George Lewis, Richard Teitelbaum and others, Artificial Intelligence is just under an hour of spontaneous human interaction by two of the most prolific and uncategorizable improvisers in New York. This is a studio recording of free improvisation, from January 2022. There are no compositions, and if there are ...