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JazzMI 2018 - III Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
JazzMI 2018--Terza Edizione Milano 1.-13.11.2018 Terza edizione di JazzMI, festival che si impone all'attenzione della città con la forza dei grandi numeri. Oltre 200 eventi, 500 artisti, 100 location sparse per tutta la città (periferie comprese, è bene sottolinearlo), tra mostre fotografiche, dibattiti, interviste pubbliche, proiezioni cinematografiche e ovviamente concerti, tra cui molti gratuiti. Un ventaglio di iniziative ampio e diversificato, fatto di grandi nomi e piccoli tesori nascosti, che ha permesso ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran and the Bandwagon at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Jason Moran and the Bandwagon Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Perelman Theater Philadelphia, PA March 29, 2015 This concert contrasted stylistically with a previous engagement at the Kimmel Center when, in 2007, Jason Moran appeared with an expanded group including horns and a vocalist. At that time, “The group played a diverse pastiche of themes derived from blues, gospel, popular music, and an old cowboy motif found in every Western flick you've ever ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: Joyful Proclamations
by Franz A. Matzner
Jason Moran requires no introduction, either as an artistic alchemist or a spokesperson and educator. Moran has left an indelible mark on modern jazz and is now seated at one of the nation's most preeminent performing spaces--the Kennedy Center--as its artistic director for jazz. Already, his capacity for insight, humor, and innovation have launched a new era for the Center's jazz programming, defined in equal measures by careful regard for the music's history, a broad artistic view, and pointed political ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller
by Mark F. Turner
Jason Moran is an artist who is not afraid to look back while constantly pressing forward. The 2010 MacArthur Fellow is a leading jazz pianist with moments of kinetic energy, agility, and sensitivity, the likes of his one-time teacher, the great Jaki Byard. Whether performing with varied ensembles and musicians, bringing new perspectives as the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center or combining freestyle jazz with live skateboarders in San Francisco, Moran's passion and capacity is having an ...
Continue ReadingRebellion and Respect: Kennedy Center Celebrates Blue Note's 75th Anniversary
by Franz A. Matzner
Blue Note Record's significance to modern music is as inarguable as its story is remarkable. Over its 75 year lifespan the label has recorded many of jazz's defining artists, its evolution tracing the trajectory of America's most significant musical form from its beginnings to its present day diverse manifestations. It is therefore especially auspicious that the celebration of its 75th anniversary took place at the Kennedy Center just as the center welcomes experimentalist Jason Moran as its now ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran, Randy Weston and Billy Harper at SFJazz
by Harry S. Pariser
Jason Moran, Randy Weston and Billy Harper SFJazz San Francisco, CA November 24, 2013 Three fine musicians came together on stage in a new jazz facility in San Francisco. First up was a rising star in the jazz world, an acclaimed pianist who frequently incorporates samples of taped music and text in his onstage performance. The second portion of the evening saw the reunion of two longtime off-and-on collaborators. The venue was SFJazz. The musicians: ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: Ten
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dieci anni di vita per Bandwagon, il trio guidato dal pianista Jason Moran con il bassista Tarus Mateen e il batterista Nasheet Waits. Giusto celebrarne la coesione espressiva e l'efficacissima capacità di sintesi che ha dimostrato in questo decennio di dischi e concerti, gettando in un certo senso un ponte - di magistrale architettura - tra tradizione e nuove creatività urbane, mostrando con naturalezza come il dialogo tra il jazz e l'elettronica, la scrittura contemporanea, l'hip-hop e le altre discipline ...
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