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Erik Friedlander Throw A Glass al Pinocchio di Firenze

Read "Erik Friedlander Throw A Glass al Pinocchio di Firenze" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Erik Friedlander Throw a Glass Firenze Pinocchio Live Jazz 8.2.2020 Inizio della programmazione di Febbraio al Pinocchio con una formazione statunitense di primissimo livello: il quartetto Throw a Glass del violoncellista Erik Friedlander, con Uri Caine al pianoforte, Mark Helias al contrabbasso e Ches Smith alla batteria. Il gruppo presentava un programma in buona parte tratto dal disco del 2018, Artemisia, dedicato alla “bevanda maledetta" degli artisti otto-novecenteschi, il liquore di assenzio.

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Live Review

Erik Friedlander - Throw a Glass al Piacenza Jazz Fest 2019

Read "Erik Friedlander - Throw a Glass al Piacenza Jazz Fest 2019" reviewed by Luca Muchetti

by Luca Muchetti

Throw a Glass: Erik Friedlander, Uri Caine, Mark Helias, Ches Smith Piacenza Jazz Fest 2019 Galleria Alberoni Piacenza 5.4.2019 Non poteva che risultare liquida, talvolta euforica, talaltra depressa e a tratti stupendamente allucinatoria la trasposizione live di Artemisia, l'album che Throw a Glass, il super-gruppo capitanato da Erik Friedlander, ha regalato al pubblico del Piacenza Jazz Fest come ultimo atto di una edizione 2019 davvero da incorniciare. Posizionati proprio al termine ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Illuminations: Erik Friedlander's Remarkable Artistry

Read "Illuminations: Erik Friedlander's Remarkable Artistry" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Erik Friedlander is today's leading cello innovator and a stalwart of the creative music scene. This mixtape captures highlights from some of his recent projects. Erik Friedlander “Beaufin Street" from Bobebridge (Skipstone) 0:00 Erik Friedlander “Night White" from Block Ice and Propane (Skipstone) 4:03 Erik Friedlander “Twenty-six Gasoline Stations" from Nighthawks (Skipstone) 7:03 Erik Friedlander “Zodiac" from Illuminations -A Suite for Solo Cello (Skipstone) 11:36 Erik Friedlander, Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier “Cheek to Cheek" from Claws & ...

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Catching Up With

Erik Friedlander: Reversing Abstraction

Read "Erik Friedlander: Reversing Abstraction" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Music works in mysterious ways. Take the latest project by Erik Friedlander. Some time ago, the New York cellist went to an exhibition of six absinthe glasses by Pablo Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Despite the somewhat abstract and deconstructed nature of these sculptures, he got inspired to write some of the most tactile, swinging, even groovy, music he has ever composed. Perhaps Throw a Glass, the name he chose for this project, represents just ...

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Album Review

Sara Serpa: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Finalmente un album pienamente convincente della cantante portoghese (qui anche autrice di tutto il materiale tematico), spesso preziosa, nella sua produzione, ma altrove (anche all'interno di uno stesso lavoro, suo o altrui) un po' disarticolata, quasi schizoide, magari solo curiosa, e comunque alterna nella resa in concreto. Sarà senz'altro anche merito dei due musicisti che l'affiancano, fatto sta che questo suo ultimo album, live alla Pete's House di Brooklyn nel giugno 2017, convince senza arzigogoli o avvitamenti (critici, estetici) di ...

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Album Review

Erik Friedlander's Throw a Glass: Artemisia

Read "Artemisia" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Erik Friedlander ci aveva deliziato nel 2015 con la pubblicazione di Oscalypso, dedicato a Oscar Pettiford. In quell'occasione avevamo apprezzato l'abbinamento del suo violoncello al sax tenore di Michael Blake, particolarmente riuscito. Ora, con questo Artemisia, Friedlander si presenta, sempre in quartetto, affiancato dal pianoforte di Uri Caine, altro musicista la cui duttilità impavida è in grado di confrontarsi con un bel ventaglio di contesti musicali. Cambia anche l'accoppiata di contrabbasso e batteria, attingendo a due fuoriclasse ...

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Album Review

Sara Serpa: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson

Portuguese vocalist Sara Serpa has been a significant presence on the New York jazz scene for several years now, creating music with literary and artistic allusions in the company of renowned musicians like Ran Blake, Nicole Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey. For her latest project she leads a trio that also features saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and cellist Erik Friedlander. The music they make together, with Serpa often singing wordlessly, creates an airy tapestry of sound. On “Sol Enganador" Friedlander ...

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