Jazz Articles about Hank Roberts

Gordon Grdina: Safar-E-Daroon

by Mike Jurkovic
April 22, 2020

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 ...

Filippo Vignato/Hank Roberts: Ghost Dance

by Ian Patterson
February 12, 2020

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 ...

Hanksgiving: A Tribute to Hank Roberts, Part II

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 4, 2020

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 ...

Hanksgiving: A Tribute to Hank Roberts, Part I

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 10, 2019

Traditions are traditions... For this year's Hanksgiving episode we celebrate the work of a truly original artist, Hank Roberts. The Indiana-born, upstate New York-based, cellist, jazzaphone fiddler and vocalist, is one of those rare musicians whose name on the front or the back of an album should make any one purchase that record without questions asked, run home and play it immediately. This week we try to squeeze into a couple of hours a discography that spans ...

Hank Roberts Solo Concert at the Ground Music Festival 2019

by Danilo Codazzi
July 10, 2019

Pipe Dream ai Festival Ground Music e Alto Adige Jazz

by Giuseppe Segala
July 10, 2019

Pipe Dream Ground Music Festival, Südtirol Alto Adige Jazzfestival Teatro Pax di Provaglio d'Iseo, Centro Trevi di Bolzano 22.06.2019; 06.07.2019 Due concerti di Pipe Dream, la prima e l'ultima di otto date che hanno percorso la Penisola dal 22 giugno al 6 luglio, permettono un confronto a breve distanza e qualche considerazione sullo stato di evoluzione di una formazione tra le più stimabili del panorama odierno in Italia. In particolare, perché nel tour in ...

Pipe Dream: Pipe Dream

by Neri Pollastri
October 15, 2018

Quattro tra i nostri musicisti più interessanti; un ospite statunitense di enorme valore, duttile e creativo; un progetto condiviso nell'impostazione e nelle composizioni, con tutti i musicisti che ne firmano almeno una; delle sonorità singolari, atipiche fin dagli strumenti messi in gioco e che si intrecciano in modo suggestivo: questo è Pipe Dream, quintetto che avevamo avuto modo di ascoltare lo scorso anno, proprio nei giorni in cui veniva registrato questo disco omonimo, e che ci aveva fortemente colpito (clicca ...