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Emilio Teubal: Musica Para Un Dragon Dormido

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Musica Para Un Dragon Dormido (il riferimento è alla simbologia utilizzata nel calendario cinese) è la terza pubblicazione del pianista e compositore argentino Emilio Teubal. Con i due album precedenti si era messo in luce grazie ad una miscela di jazz e radici argentine di sicuro impatto ma in qualche modo ancora troppo legata a cliché consolidati. Con quest'ultima pubblicazione Teubal compie un deciso balzo in avanti, verso una matura consapevolezza delle proprie doti compositive ed una più ampia visione ...

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Erik Friedlander: Bonebridge

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Forse qualche sprovveduto potrebbe chiedersi cosa ci faccia un violoncello in un gruppo di musica folk, ma invece Friedlander, sin dal primo ascolto di questo suo Bonebridge, sembra proprio voler dimostrare come il suo strumento sia irrinunciabile per suonare musica acustica della tradizione statunitense. Come si sarà capito infatti, stavolta non stiamo parlando né di avanguardia, né di improvvisazione, né di avant jazz, né tantomeno di musica klezmer: nel cuore del grande violoncellista newyorkese ci sono gli Appalachi, la musica ...

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Erik Friedlander: Bonebridge

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The quartet featured on Bonebridge is an augmented variation of cellist Erik Friedlander's Broken Arm Trio. The group, with bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Mike Sarin, was originally conceived in tribute to Oscar Pettiford's cello experiments--which were undertaken in 1949 when the legendary bassist played the smaller instrument while recovering from a baseball injury. Refraining from bowing, Friedlander employs a fulsome pizzicato technique on the new ensemble's self-titled debut, finding supple concordance with slide guitarist Doug Wamble's spiky twang. Their ...

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Take Five With Erik Friedlander

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Meet Erik Friedlander: Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a first-call studio player and a jazzbo. A veteran of NYC's downtown scene, his 12 CDs as a leader recently include, Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music; The Broken Arm Trio, a trio tribute to jazz bassist Oscar Pettiford; and Volac, a romantic collection of virtuoso solo cello pieces by John Zorn. Erik has performed on 100's of recordings and ...

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Erik Friedlander: Broken Arm Trio

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Il violoncellista Erik Friedlander sta lavorando da qualche anno ormai attorno al suo “Broken Arm Trio" [ne ricordiamo un eccellente concerto nel 2005, quando al contrabbasso c'era ancora Kermit Driscoll], formazione che mette in evidenza il debito del leader nei confronti di Oscar Pettiford, il grande contrabbassista americano che si trovò a sdoganare il violoncello nel mondo del jazz a causa di una frattura ad un braccio subita durante una partita di baseball. [Il disco di riferimento è My Little ...

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Erik Friedlander: Broken Arm Trio

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Inspired by the late great bassist Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) who, after breaking his arm took up the cello is this project by the cellist Erik Friedlander. His Broken Arm Trio is a sweet downhome session full of homespun jazz. Together with bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Trio-Convulsant, Junk Genius) and drummer Mike Sarin (Thomas Chapin, Ben Allison, Mario Pavone) Friedlander puts down (for the most part) his bow to produce some inspired and folksy pizzicato playing.While Friedlander has ...

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Erik Friedlander: Broken Arm Trio

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The self-titled debut of Downtown cellist Erik Friedlander's Broken Arm Trio refers to an injury that legendary bassist Oscar Pettiford sustained while playing baseball in 1949. Pettiford couldn't play upright bass with his arm in a sling, but he could handle the cello; he proceeded to develop a style on the smaller instrument that yielded a spate of cello-themed albums, including the classic My Little Cello (America, 1960), a personal favorite of Friedlander's. Inspired by Pettiford's efforts, Friedlander ...


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