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Mantova Jazz Festival 2024

Read "Mantova Jazz Festival 2024" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

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 ...

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Fred Hersch at the Barcelona Jazz Festival

Read "Fred Hersch at the Barcelona Jazz Festival" reviewed by Artur Moral

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 ...

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I poeti del piano solo: Fred Hersch e Gregory Privat

Read "I poeti del piano solo: Fred Hersch e Gregory Privat" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

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 ...

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Album Review

Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening

Read "Silent, Listening" reviewed by Chris May

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 ...

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Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Fred Hersch, Potions, Kendall Carter, And More

Read "New Releases From Fred Hersch, Potions, Kendall Carter, And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne

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" ...

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Album Review

Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening

Read "Silent, Listening" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

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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Claudia Acuna: Duo

Read "Duo" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Alcuni classici della canzone popolare latina costituiscono il nucleo del sesto disco da leader di Claudia Acuña. In questa celebrazione la cantante cilena ha coinvolto sette protagonisti del jazz contemporaneo in altrettante esecuzioni in duo caratterizzate da palpitante relazione con la loro identità tradizionale. I due brani conclusivi sono cantati in inglese e la vedono piena protagonista: “Cristal Silence" di Chick Corea è cantato a cappella; “YO" è una sua composizione originale eseguita con un sottofondo percussivo. ...

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