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Asian-American Jazz & Improv
by Ludovico Granvassu
As jazz was born where cultures converged, it's not a surprise that it is the most adaptable form of music. An art form permeable since its very inception to musical traditions from other continents. This week we focus on the contribution of musicians that approached jazz and improvised music benefiting from the wider perspective afforded to them by the exposure to not only American culture but also the traditions of the places of origin of their families, which hailed from ...
Continue ReadingFred Ho Green Monster Big Band: Celestial Green Monster
by AAJ Italy Staff
Scoppiettante album orchestrale per il sassofonista cino-californiano, a ribadire, anzitutto, le ragguardevoli doti di metteur-en-scène jazzistico emerse fin dagli anni Ottanta con una serie di brillanti lavori per la Soul Note. Qui è all'opera un megaorganico di una ventina di elementi, a rileggere, per cominciare, celebri pagine di spiccato umore “teatrale" (non a caso), con quella strizzata d'occhio a universi “altri" che, oltre a non scandalizzare più nessuno (almeno si spera), sono nello specifico trattati con fare disincantato quanto partecipe, ...
Continue ReadingFred Ho: We Refuse To Be Used And Abused
by Peter Madsen
When I began playing jazz over 30 years ago I felt that it was music leaning its sounds in the leftist direction. Being in the jazz world gave me the feeling of being in a secret underground, a place outside the all-American white-bread Christian society that was always telling me what to believe and how to behave. To not ask too many questions, to not break the everlasting capitalist rules and regulations, to feel superior as a man with a ...
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