Jazz Articles about Joe Lovano

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Live Review

Umbria Jazz Winter 22 Orvieto -27.12.2014-01.01.2015 “Fabrizio Bosso, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu... Anat Cohen, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano... vi aspettano a Orvieto per Umbria Jazz Winter." Più o meno di questo tenore era lo spot pubblicitario trasmesso per tutto dicembre sulle stazioni radio della RAI, uno dei media partner del festival; i nomi dei protagonisti italiani erano comunque anteposti a quelli degli americani. Questo non solo la dice lunga sul successo raggiunto da certi jazzisti di ...

Album Review

Joe Lovano US Five: Cross Culture

Read "Cross Culture" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 11, 2013

Oltre settantacinque minuti di musica, quasi al limite dello spazio fisico a disposizione, quando l'attuale tendenza è quella di avvicinarsi alla durata dei vecchi long-playing. Manie di grandezza? Brani interminabili con altrettanto interminabili sequenze di assoli? Niente di tutto questo, perché Cross Culture ci pare il riuscito tentativo da parte di Joe Lovano di riunire in un CD lo spirito che ha soffiato, con varia intensità e in diverse declinazioni, su quattro decenni di avventure musicali. Per far ciò Big ...

Live Review

Joe Lovano Us Five: Kennett Square, PA, January 19, 2013

by Troy Collins
January 30, 2013

Joe Lovano Us FiveLongwood GardensKennett Square, PAJanuary 19, 2013Renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano brought his esteemed Us Five ensemble to Kennett Square's bucolic Longwood Gardens on a crisp January evening, touring in support of Cross Culture, his 23rd release for Blue Note Records. Performing in the Conservatory's intimate ballroom, the unconventional lineup entertained a sold-out audience in an elegant prewar setting that provided an ideal backdrop for Lovano's timeless artistry.The capacity crowd was no ...

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Interview

Joe Lovano: Inimitable Streams of Expression

by Angela Davis
February 28, 2012

Penned as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history," saxophonist Joe Lovano has successfully created a unique voice within the jazz tradition and has contributed significantly to the continuance and development of the idiom.In just over a quarter of a century he has created an expansive body of work that has covered a broad spectrum of styles. This includes swing, bebop, hard-bop, post-bop, the avant-garde and interpretations of the music of Frank Sinatra and Enrico Caruso. He ...

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Album Review

Joe Lovano: Joe Lovano - Bird Songs

Read "Joe Lovano - Bird Songs" reviewed by Jonathan Wertheim

by Jonathan Wertheim
March 3, 2011

Joe Lovano's Us Five debut, Folk Art (Blue Note, 2009), was a triumphantly energetic outing, filled with the sound of two drummers and running through a program of Lovano's originals. It was a highly personal and emphatic debut, and a great one too, but Bird Songs is important in completing the portrait of this ensemble. Bird Songs confirms what was previously just a suspicion--that this ensemble has a wide range of expression that can be applied to ...

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Album Review

Joe Lovano / Us Five: Bird Songs

Read "Bird Songs" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
January 22, 2011

An inquisitive musician with a reverence for tradition, Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano has recorded a number of unique tributes to artists who have inspired him, including Enrico Caruso and Frank Sinatra. But none of his previous homages, not even 52nd Street Themes (Blue Note, 2000), his love letter to the bebop era, are as relevant to his artistic development as Bird Songs, Lovano's modernistic reinterpretation of tunes written by and associated with the great Charlie Parker.Reevaluating these revered ...

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Album Review

Joe Lovano / Us Five: Bird Songs

Read "Bird Songs" reviewed by Andrew J. Sammut

by Andrew J. Sammut
January 21, 2011

Sax giant Joe Lovano has blown next to a bevy of jazz greats, and been applauded as soloist and leader throughout his nearly 40-year career. While it might seem surprising that audiences had to wait until his 22nd album for a tribute to Charlie Parker, Bird Songs demonstrates, once again, that Lovano does things his own way, and that great things are worth waiting for. Lovano and his Us Five band cover tunes that “Bird" penned and ...