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With all tonalities being created equal, on Trio Tapestries, Joe Lovano's first as a leader for ECM and one of the first releases of the label's fiftieth year, silence abides. Both as concept and as actuality, silence lays at the heart of this eleven song lattice. Even the spacing between the tracks hangs appended, allowing the music to arise and fall, like thoughts and non-thoughts amid meditation. By way of an invocational duet, “One Time In" with its ...

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Joe Lovano: Trio Tapestry

Read "Trio Tapestry" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
January 14, 2019

Joe Lovano approda in qualità di leader all'etichetta Ecm e approfitta di questa occasione per distillare la propria vena più astratta e sottile, legata allo scandaglio di geometrie spaziali, di un linguaggio costruito su libere, trasparenti digressioni. Con l'etichetta bavarese il sassofonista aveva registrato nelle formazioni di diversi musicisti, tra cui John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Steve Kuhn. Ma soprattutto nel leggendario trio di Paul Motian insieme alla chitarra di Bill Frisell: dapprima nel 1985, poi nel 2004 e nel 2006. ...

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Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas: Scandal

Read "Scandal" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
April 3, 2018

Nei propri lavori, Dave Douglas ha focalizzato spesso la propria attenzione su figure significative del jazz e della musica contemporanea. Ricordiamo tra l'altro dischi come In Our Lifetime del 1995, dedicato a Booker Little, Moving Portrait del 1998, ispirato a Joni Mitchell, Soul on Soul del 2000, rivolto a Mary Lou Williams. Anche Wayne Shorter era già stato oggetto di omaggio da parte del trombettista, in Stargazer del 1997. Sempre in questi casi l'operazione di Douglas tendeva ...

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PRISM Quartet with Joe Lovano at the Painted Bride

by Victor L. Schermer
June 7, 2017

PRISM Quartet with Joe Lovano Painted Bride Art Center Heritage/Evolution Philadelphia, PA June 3, 2017 An optical prism breaks down white light into the distinct colors of the spectrum. For the PRISM Quartet, this analogy applies in two ways 1) the expression of the music in the four registers of the saxophones: soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone; and 2) the use of a classical music format for a variety of genres: classical, modern, jazz, ...

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Joe Lovano Quartet: Classic! Live at Newport

Read "Classic! Live at Newport" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
August 1, 2016

Il quartetto che Joe Lovano guidò con Hank Jones, George Mraz e Paul Motian è stato uno dei combo più avvincenti del suo decennio, documentato in due dischi ampiamente celebrati: I'm All for You (Blue Note, 2004) e Joyous Encounter (Blue Note, 2005). Alla fine di luglio, la storica etichetta ha pubblicato la registrazione dell'organico (con Lewis Nash che aveva sostituito Motian) effettuata il 14 agosto 2005 al festival di Newport. Il gruppo era appena rientrato da un ...

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Joe Lovano Quartet: Classic! Live at Newport

Read "Classic! Live at Newport" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 8, 2016

It's safe to say that many years from now, when the critics and historians have the benefit of distance to help focus their thoughts, many if not most will continue to hail much of saxophonist Joe Lovano's presently-admired body of work on the Blue Note imprint. But what will stand tallest in said discography? Some may continue to laud the bold, rhythmically charged work of his Us Five quintet; others may celebrate his fascinating Trio Fascination outings; and a different ...

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Joe Lovano: Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight

by William Ellis
February 19, 2015

Joe Lovano: Birdland, NYC, 21st September 2014 “Well, I would have to say Miles Davis, 'Round About Midnight (Columbia, 1957). I grew up listening to this recording as a kid and the poetic expression -the ensemble playing between John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones just captured my attention from an early age. And of course their solos within each tune were just so masterful you know. But yet, as ...