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Album Review

The Claudia Quintet: Super Petite

Read "Super Petite" reviewed by Geno Thackara


If there's one thing you can pin down about the Claudia Quintet, it's their inability to be pinned down. Starting off this release with “Nightbreak" is like dropping into a soundtrack to some sleepy '50s-style arty cartoon, with an acoustic retro tone that comes from the combination of vibraphone and clarinet. The piece isn't catchy and barely even feels melodic, but simply meanders like a lazy insect wafting back and forth across the garden on a slow summer afternoon. At ...

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Album Review

The Claudia Quintet: Super Petite

Read "Super Petite" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Except for a brief dalliance with the ingénue Lucy, drummer and bandleader John Hollenbeck has been faithful to his Claudia for nearly twenty years. Super Petite is the 8th release and 7th on Cuneiform Records. Actually, the band leader has had others. Besides his Lucy Quartet, there is his John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Refuge Trio, duos with Jorrit Dijkstra and Theo Bleckmann, and the apropos (is there a pattern developing here?) Blind Date Quartet. His quintet is always ...

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Live Review

Il Claudia Quintet al Sudwerk Club di Bolzano

Read "Il Claudia Quintet al Sudwerk Club di Bolzano" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


The Claudia Quintet Club Series Sudwerk Club Bolzano 18.03.2015 Il Sudwerk Club di Bolzano funziona come supporto alla programmazione dell'Alto Adige Jazz Festival, in una sorta di tessuto connettivo che distribuisce i concerti lungo tutto l'arco dell'anno (dall'autunno alla primavera), per arrivare senza una dolorosa pausa invernale al cartellone del festival, programmato quest'anno dal 26 giugno al 5 luglio. Dunque spesso agli appuntamenti del piccolo club, che ha l'atmosfera di una cave parigina, ...

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Album Review

John Hollenbeck / Alban Darche / Sébastien Boisseau / Samuel Blaser: Jass

Read "Jass" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Dopo il debutto nel luglio 2011 al festival di Berlino, il collettivo franco-svizzero-statunitense presenta la prima incisione, il cui titolo ha un duplice (e addirittura triplice) significato: è un acronimo formato dalle prime lettere dei quattro nomi protagonisti, si collega al nome arcaico di questa musica e indica un gioco di carte (detto anche Chibre) molto popolare in Svizzera. Il quartetto si riallaccia alle avanguardie degli anni settanta (loft jazz, post free, libera improvvisazione europea) effettuando un'esemplare sintesi ...

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Album Review

John Hollenbeck / Alban Darche / Sébastien Boisseau / Samuel Blaser: J.A.S.S.

Read "J.A.S.S." reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


J.A.S.S. as in the first letters of the names of American drummer John hollenbeck, French saxophonist Alban Darche and double bassist Sébastien Boisseau and Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser. But Jass also as the term used by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in March 1917 for the very first jazz-album recording or just the name of centuries-old popular card game in Switzerland and Austria. All of the above references relevant to this quartet who first played together ...

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Profile

John Hollenbeck: profilo di artista

Read "John Hollenbeck: profilo di artista" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Lo scorso mese di agosto il 61° critics poll di Down Beat ha votato John Hollenbeck al primo posto tra gli arrangiatori emergenti, riproponendo valutazioni già espresse in passato (Rising Star Arranger nel 2012 e Rising Star Big Band nel 2011). È il doveroso riconoscimento a uno degli artisti più originali del jazz statunitense ma non rende giustizia sul versante della collocazione. Nato a Binghamton (New York) 45 anni fa, John Hollenbeck non è un artista emergente. Attivo ...

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Interview

John Hollenbeck's September Songs

Read "John Hollenbeck's September Songs" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


John Hollenbeck's productivity would be astonishing in its own right, but the uniformly high quality of this high output places the drummer among the top tier of jazz (and not only jazz) musicians. Hollenbeck's recordings, compositions and performances defy certain expectations. He can be as seriously intellectual as a stereotypically stuffy classical musician, but his music is interlaced with humor and fun. As befits a 21st century drummer, he is rhythmically complex but the music is underlain with a deep ...


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