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Luís Vicente / John Dikeman / William Parker / Hamid Drake: Goes Without Saying, But It's Got To Be Said

Read "Goes Without Saying, But It's Got To Be Said" reviewed by Mark Corroto


It has been more than half a century since the oracles Albert Ayler and John Coltrane proclaimed their message of freedom to the people of earth. Please excuse the grandiosity of the above statement, but after those two giants passed, a shift in consciousness began to take hold. In the biography of William Parker Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (Duke University Press, 2021), Cisco Bradley relates how the passing of Ayler and Coltrane affected the young ...

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John Dikeman And The Origin Of The Species

Read "John Dikeman And The Origin Of The Species" reviewed by Mark Corroto


If we were to go searching for saxophonist John Dikeman's spirit animal, we might have to bypass beast for sapien. Let's just say his spirit animal is the father of punk, Iggy Pop. Like early music by The Stooges, Dikeman's sound makes reference to the music of both Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders. It's a shame we cannot go back in time (he was born in 1983) to substitute Dikeman for saxophonist Steven Mackay on Fun House (Elektra, 1970). The ...

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John Dikeman / Luis Vicente / Hugo Antunes / Gabriel Ferrandini: Salão Brazil

Read "Salão Brazil" reviewed by John Sharpe


Amsterdam-domiciled American saxophonist John Dikeman and Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente have become regular collaborators, although the only prior evidence on disc is their first meeting in Twenty One 4tet's Live At Zaal 100 (Not Two, 2016). For the limited edition LP Salão Brazil they have enlisted two of the brassman's countrymen in Belgian-based bassist Hugo Antunes (who may be familiar from some outstanding alliances with trumpeter Nate Wooley) and in demand drummer Gabriel Ferrandini from the RED Trio and Rodrigo ...

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Twenty One 4tet: Live At Zaal 100

Read "Live At Zaal 100" reviewed by John Sharpe


The moniker Twenty One 4tet represents a summit of cosmopolitan international improvisers gathering in Amsterdam . On the face of it there's not a lot of connection between peripatetic American saxophonist John Dikeman's Ayler-inspired tirades and Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente's thoughtful chamber explorations, but the outcome suggests much more of a meeting of minds than might have been anticipated. The glue binding them together, in a program of four collective inventions excerpted from live performance, emanates from the experienced pairing ...

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Dikeman, Parker, Drake: Live at La Resistenza

Read "Live at La Resistenza" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Quattro brani di dieci minuti l'uno registrati dal vivo a Ghent in Belgio, i primi due estratti dal primo set, il terzo e il quarto dal set conclusivo. Protagonisti due mostri sacri dell'improvvisazione come Hamid Drake e William Parker più il giovane John Dikeman, statunitense di nascita, giramondo per vocazione--alcuni anni passati al Cairo in Egitto con escursioni in tutto il Nord Africa al seguito della pop star Mohamed Mounir, dal 2007 residente ad Amsterdam--sassofonista dall'eloquio torrenziale e dalla fervida ...

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Dikeman/Kugel/van der Weide: Across the Sky

Read "Across the Sky" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nato in Nebraska, cresciuto nello Wyoming il sassofonista John Dikeman ha frequentato brevemente la scena newyorkese prima di trasferirsi per tre anni al Cairo e stabilirsi dal 2007 ad Amsterdam. Nella Venezia del Nord Dikeman si è inserito con naturalezza e disinvoltura all'interno della variegata scena improvvisativa, divenendone in breve tempo una delle figure più attive e apprezzate. Across the Sky è una sorta di cittadinanza onoraria musicale, nella quale l'improvvisazione è naturalmente il nocciolo duro della registrazione, ma si ...

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Cactus Truck: Brand New for China!

Read "Brand New for China!" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


I Cactus Truck sono un trio, fondato ad Amsterdam dal saxofonista americano John Dikeman e da due giovanissimi olandesi volanti come il bassista/chitarrista Jasper Stadhouders e il batterista Onno Govaert, che sta già facendo parlare di sé per la furia iconoclasta e l'energia furibonda delle loro performance. L'improvvisazione gioca un ruolo determinante in questa modalità espressiva che non si ferma davanti a nessun ostacolo. Non a caso i brani sono tutti a firma collettiva dei tre musicisti. Il loro album ...


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