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Don't Like Jazz? Give Me Six Minutes And Forty-Two Seconds
by Frank Housh
Don't like jazz? I think I understand. For many, jazz seems hyper-intellectual and inaccessible and, to be fair, it too often is. At its best, however, jazz represents the heart of the creative instinct; it began by taking popular songs and changing their harmony and melodies. This “variations on a theme" is nothing new. What jazz added was a unique, improvisational approach that discarded existing rules of interpretation, transforming familiar tunes into something new and different. Let's take ...
Continue ReadingMantova Jazz Festival 2024
by Angelo Leonardi
Teatro Ariston, Auditorium Monteverdi Mantova Jazz 2024 Mantova 11 ottobre--16 novembre 2024 Il Mantova Jazz Festival conferma la sua rilevanza tra le rassegne autunnali italiane continuando a selezionare proposte d'alto profilo nel panorama nazionale e internazionale. Il festival prende il nome da Roberto Chiozzini, storico fondatore negli anni cinquanta del Circolo Jazzistico Mantovano, ed è quest'anno dedicato a Enzo Galetti, l'inseparabile partner che ha concorso a formare la cultura jazzistica cittadina. Una tradizione che ...
Continue ReadingFred Hersch at the Barcelona Jazz Festival
by Artur Moral
Fred HerschConservatori del Liceu56 Festival de Jazz de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain October 29, 2024 The 56th Barcelona Jazz Festival boasted one of the most complete and balanced line-ups in recent years. Fred Hersch's solo piano concert was, without a doubt, one of its greatest nights, a performance characterized by tributes, admiration for the Brazilian world and a deep commitment to beauty. There is no better way to enjoy the mastery of the truly ...
Continue ReadingI poeti del piano solo: Fred Hersch e Gregory Privat
by Neri Pollastri
Fred Hersch, Gregory Privat Sala Vanni I Poeti del Piano Solo Firenze 10-11.5.2024 Quinta edizione della rassegna fiorentina “I Poeti del Piano Solo," che ogni anno, grazie alla direzione artistica di Stefano Maurizi, porta sui palcoscenici cittadini una selezione dei più interessanti pianisti jazz della scena internazionale. Quest'anno i concerti erano quattro, con il primo --quello di Omer Klein --nella suggestiva sede del Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, l'ultimo --quello di Stefania Tallini --nella meravigliosa ...
Continue ReadingFred Hersch: Silent, Listening
by Chris May
It took Fred Hersch a long time to begin recording for ECM--four decades and 17 Grammy nominations since his first own-name album--but when he arrived he did so in style. The Song Is You (ECM, 2022), a duo recording with flugelhornist Enrico Rava, reviewed here, was quietly sensational. The word “recalibration" is often wheeled out when a musician does no more than tweak the chord progression of a well-known tune. However, on The Song Is You Hersch and Rava gently ...
Continue ReadingNew Releases From Fred Hersch, Potions, Kendall Carter, And More
by Bob Osborne
On this show we feature new releases from Potions, Kendall Carter, Fred Hersch, Bag of Bones, Matthew McDonald, Melody Graves and the Hokum Redemption, Jérémie Ternoy Ivann Cruz and Peter Orins, Woo, Art Tatum, Yusef Lateef, Sun Ra, Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon, and Kari van der Kloot. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Potions “Solivagant" from Vol.1 (Robalo Music) 01:26 Kendall Carter “Happiness Is Now" from Purview (Lladnek Music) 12:28 Fred Hersch “The Wind" ...
Continue ReadingFred Hersch: Silent, Listening
by Mike Jurkovic
Like many of Fred Hersch's haunted, focused recordings--2017's Grammy nominated Open Book(Palmetto Records), Solo (Palmetto Records, 2015) or In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis (Palmetto Records, 2006)--the short story of Silent, Listening, Hirsch's first solo foray for ECM, is this: Stay for the rich, orchestral novel and the full reward is yours. On his thirteenth solo foray, Hersch tells the whole story which comprises the lyrical abstracts and open questions the pianist poses on the melodically quixotic “Aeon." ...
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