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Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Fino a qualche tempo fa il nome di Giuseppi Logan era legato al più celebre caso da “Chi l'ha visto?" nella storia del jazz moderno. Titolare di un paio di dischi ESP pubblicati fra il '64 e il '65 (The Giuseppi Logan Quartet e More), il sassofonista di Philadelphia era stato poi inghiottito da un buco nero a inizio anni Settanta, dopo qualche altra comparsata su lavori altrui. Chi parlava di suicidio, chi di overdose: fatto sta che del bizzarro ...

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Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet

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by Clifford Allen

Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quintet Tompkins Square 2010

In terms of surprising musical rediscoveries, 2010 has started off rather auspiciously with the first recording of reedman and composer Giuseppi Logan in over 40 years. Logan's appearances in the heady days of New York's fire music were scattered but strong and otherworldly affairs--sideman work with trombonist Roswell Rudd (Everywhere, Impulse!) and vocalist Patty Waters (College Tour, ESP) in 1966, performances as part of trumpeter ...

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Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quartet

Read "The Giuseppi Logan Quartet" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

A quarant’anni dalla scomparsa, i numerosi interrogativi legati alla figura e alla musica di Giuseppi Logan restano sostanzialmente irrisolti. Le note biografiche sono piuttosto scarne. A un primo ingaggio nella big band di Earl Bostic, seguirono un periodo al New England Conservatory e i galloni di musicista free guadagnati al fianco di Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon e Byard Lancaster nella New York della October Revolution (curioso l’unico video che ritrae Logan: poco meno di cinque minuti a zonzo ...

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Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quartet

Read "The Giuseppi Logan Quartet" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton

Generally, innocence drives the impetus for how to discover the next place successfully. An intriguing process of discovering various levels while creating appears on the re-release of the Giuseppi Logan Quartet (ESP Disk, 2008). Originally recorded in 1965 in New York, this recording imparts the musical uniqueness of multi-reedman Giuseppi Logan's sound.

A seeming cacophony penetrates the incidence of the music led by Logan, with a pervasive sourness that emanates from whatever reed instrument he plays. Logan offers ...

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