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Pipe Dream: Blue Roads
by Giuseppe Segala
Questo secondo capitolo di Pipe Dream, Blue Roads, dopo il sigificativo esordio del 2018, aggiunge un nuovo tassello all'avventura del quintetto, scaturita dall'incontro felice di Hank Roberts con un gruppo di musicisti, tra i più rappresentativi della scena italiana. La propensione melodica, l'attenzione agli impasti strumentali di un organico inusuale che allinea sulla front line violoncello, trombone e vibrafono, la rilassatezza dell'approccio di fondo, che pure mette in atto un robusto gioco ritmico e una fitta trama di contrappunti, sono ...
Continue ReadingPipe Dream al Pinocchio di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Pipe Dream Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 19.11.2022 Dopo quattro anni dal precedente disco omonimo, Pipe Dream—una delle formazioni più interessanti non solo del panorama nazionale—torna con un nuovo album e lo fa presentandolo con una breve tournée, che sabato 19 novembre l'ha vista sul palco del Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze. Registrato in realtà quando la pandemia stava solo annunciandosi, nel gennaio del 2020, e missato quando si credeva fosse superata, cioè l'estate ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman: Deep Resonance
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Ivo Perelman is an exceptional innovator, even in a genre where originality and inventiveness are the norms. A stalwart of the international creative music scene, Perelman excels in small, intimate group settings. His collaboration with the string trio Arcado, the stimulating Deep Resonance, is a dramatic and introspective recording which draws equally on free improvisation and western classical music traditions. The first movement is constructed out of a mix of overlapping duets alternating with four individual stream-of-consciousness ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman with Arcado String Trio: Deep Resonance
by Troy Dostert
Throughout his long and prolific recording career, Ivo Perelman has recorded with a large number of free improvisation's leading lights. Pianist Matthew Shipp stands at the top of the pile, with over two dozen joint appearances; Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver, Whit Dickey, William Parker, and many others help comprise the long list of associates he's maintained since the 1990s. But one would be remiss to ignore the occasional, yet important, work he has done with string players. Violinist/violist Mat Maneri ...
Continue ReadingGordon Grdina: Safar-E-Daroon
by Mike Jurkovic
Safar e Daroon germinates from its dark, submerged interiors immediately and immediately brings you into the light. But a light of what? A lover's lamp? A hushed arena? An Australian wildfire? Take your pick and let your mind go. It's all going to happen and does so in spades on oudist Gordon Grdina's second go-round with his associates, The Marrow. As it has been on recent releases such as Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio> (Skirl, 2020) with pianist Matt ...
Continue ReadingFilippo Vignato/Hank Roberts: Ghost Dance
by Ian Patterson
Usually the watering hole comes after a gig, but there would have been enough wine to float a ship at this concert by cellist Hank Roberts and trombonist Filippo Vignato, held as it was in the Vigne di Zamò Winery in North-Eastern Italy. The interplay between the veteran American and the younger Italian on these nine originals is so finely tuned, so intuitive, as to suggest total sobriety, at least at the time of the recording. Ghost Dance is their ...
Continue ReadingHanksgiving: A Tribute to Hank Roberts, Part II
by Ludovico Granvassu
For the second part of our Hanksgiving tribute to Hank Roberts [click here for the first part] we focus on a number of other projects he is the leader of, including yet unreleased material of his current sextet. This segment also spotlights his work as a member of 858 Strings, the string section he shares with Jenny Scheinman and Eyvind Kang which is featured on a number of projects by Bill Frisell, as well as his Italian adventures with Pipe ...
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