Jazz Articles about Hank Roberts

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 ...

Christy Doran: In The Corner Of The Eye

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2016

Celebrated Irish guitarist Christy Doran's penchant to keep reinventing his musical self is quite evident due to the disparate bands and solo projects he's undertaken for several decades. Whether imparting a jazz fusion spin on Jimi Hendrix with the band Call Me Helium Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Double Moon, 2005) or experimental jazz and improvisational efforts with keyboardist John Wolf Brennan and other notables, Doran's hefty discography yields a kaleidoscopic perspective. The program on In The ...

Hank Roberts: Green

by Mark F. Turner
June 21, 2008

Hank Roberts' Green probably has nothing to do with going “green" (the trendy cultural buzzword for being ecologically aware). But it does offer music that has the environmental aura of expansive open plains, ruralesque backdrops, and majestic mountainscapes within a distinct, rustic and avant-garde music setting. A world class cellist who could easily excel in any music genre, Roberts may be more recognizable in improvised music settings, and past performances with seminal artists--drummer Joey Baron, saxophonist Tim Berne ...

Bill Frisell: Unspeakable

by John Kelman
August 22, 2004

Some artists spend an entire lifetime within a narrow genre, honing their skill and working at stretching the boundaries of that style, while others transcend all definitions and labels, creating a music that defies categorization. Such is the case with guitarist Bill Frisell, who over a twenty-five year career has contributed to everything from the Nordic cool of Jan Garbarek's quartet to the downtown edge of John Zorn's Naked City. On his own records he has explored diverse landscapes including ...