Jazz Articles about Ivo Perelman

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Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Bobby Kapp: Ineffable Joy

Read "Ineffable Joy" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 14, 2020

It can be hard not to reach for words like 'transcendent' when listening to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman. He balances his love of the upper registers with an unsentimental lyricism which is difficult to resist. For his ESP debut, Perelman reconvenes the trusted line-up from Heptagon (Leo, 2017) of long-standing associate pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker and drummer Bobby Kapp on eight collectively-sculpted pieces from a studio session in April 2018. They create music in an alchemy ...

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Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Live in Nuremberg

Read "Live in Nuremberg" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
December 20, 2019

Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp are as prolific a team of improvisers as jazz offers. The pair have been bringing their spontaneous music to global audiences for much of the last ten years but their partnership dates back decades. Perelman and Shipp have released ten duo recordings in the past five years and another dozen in larger group formations. What makes Live in Nuremberg stand out in an already impressive catalog, is how the two perform in ...

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Ivo Perelman: Strings 1

Read "Strings 1" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 11, 2018

Strings 1 and Strings 2 are concurrent releases--the first of seven themed albums--that also could have been subtitled “The Art of Improvisation," hearkening back to tenor sax titan Ivo Perelman's 6-volume 2016 releases, featuring longtime collaborator, cellist Mat Maneri and others. Hence, the cellist appears on both of these new Chamber-like groupings as Strings 2 also features luminaries, cellist Hank Roberts and his first on-disc encounter with reedman Ned Rothenberg. Here, world-class violinists Mark Feldman and Jason Hwang ...

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Ivo Perelman: Strings 1

Read "Strings 1" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 10, 2018

Try to keep up sports fans, Ivo Perelman has switched directions once again. It's not that he has quit music to become a soccer star. The tenor saxophonist has more recently taken a dive into string quartets, recording a dozen or so sessions with bowing, plucking, and pizzicato-minded musicians. Strings 1 is the introduction. If this recording is a preview of the things to come, get ready for an explosion of creativity. Just when you might have thought ...

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Ivo Perelman Makes It Rain

by Mark Corroto
November 12, 2017

If music was sports, then Ivo Perelman would be baseball and most other musicians football. Where football's regular season is 16 games, baseball plays 162. Likewise, most musicians release one album every year or two, but Perelman has averaged seven titles per year for the last seven years. His 2017 Leo Records output is thirteen (fourteen, if you consider one release is a double live recording). Sure football fans, I mean casual jazz listeners, may scoff at the numbers. But ...

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Ivo Perelman: Heptagon

Read "Heptagon" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 23, 2017

Over the past few years, Brazilian tenor sax luminary Ivo Perelman has been releasing albums in clusters based on themes / approaches: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 1--Vol. 6 and The Art of Perelman-(Matthew) Shipp Vol. 1--Vol. 7 and Heptagon is one of six new simultaneous releases. Here, Perelman appears with longtime affiliates, pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker and newcomer, drummer Bobby Kapp, who performed on Brazilian saxophonist Gato Barbieri's debut album issued in 1967. ...

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Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp: Corpo

by Maurizio Zerbo
October 3, 2017

La lista dei brani non lascia intravedere indizi su quanto si ascolterà nel CD. Non si tratta di una suite, ma l'ordine progressivo della titolazione dei brani rimanda all'idea di base del progetto musicale. La logica delle composizioni improvvisate affonda le radici nel serialismo come volano per idee correlate tramite libere associazioni, spunti e trasmutazioni fra jazz e musica accademica. Cementato da diverse produzioni discografiche, il duo fra Perelman e Shipp porta a maturazione una ricerca che si snoda all'insegna ...