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Jurgen Friedrich: Monosuite

Read "Monosuite" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Pianist Jurgen Friedrich doesn't play a single note of music on Monosuite, but his personality and cognitive bearing are omnipresent. While Friedrich's piano was at the heart of the sound on the trio-based Pollock, he removes his hands from the ivories on this follow-up date, allowing a cadre of string players and a highly flexible foursome to express his well-crafted thoughts in their own way. This 49-minute opus is as much about sought-after equilibrium as anything else. ...

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The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?

Read "What Is the Beautiful?" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La figura di Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), poeta,autore di novelle e disegnatore americano, ha fornito l'ispirazione e gli spunti per What Is the Beautiful?. Il disco è stato scritto e concepito dal quintetto di Hollenbeck in occasione delle celebrazioni dei cento anni dalla nascita di questo particolarissimo esponente della cultura statunitense, organizzate dall'Università di Rochester nel settembre dell'anno scorso. Pacifista incallito, antesignano della Beat Generation, alfiere della free form poetica, ma anche della cosiddetta “Jazz Poetry," Patchen condusse una vita segnata ...

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The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast

Read "Royal Toast" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ora possiamo dirlo: il Claudia Quintet si è fatto “maniera". Il processo di cristallizzazione abbozzato su Semi-Formal e For, con Royal Toast è giunto a perfetto compimento. Gli orizzonti del possibile sono azzerati. Le attese e la curiosità dell'ascoltatore soffocate in un gioco sterile di autocompiacimento estetizzato. Le “forme" hanno preso definitivamente il sopravvento, sono diventate fine e mezzo di una poetica talmente ripiegata su sé stessa da essere fatalmente implosa. Il camerismo di John Hollenbeck e compagni non sorprende ...

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The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast

Read "Royal Toast" reviewed by David Adler


With one exception, drummer John Hollenbeck hasn't taken prominent front-cover credit on releases by The Claudia Quintet. This holds true for Royal Toast, the band's extraordinary fifth album. The decision makes sense, for Hollenbeck's labyrinthine compositions get much of their subtlety and force from the individual players that have defined the group's identity from the start. On Royal Toast, Hollenbeck yields the floor to each of them in turn and so “Ted versus Ted" features accordionist Ted ...

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The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace: Royal Toast

Read "Royal Toast" reviewed by Troy Collins


The humorously titled Royal Toast is the fifth album from the Claudia Quintet, percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck's longstanding five-piece that is--in the eternal words of Duke Ellington--a band “beyond category." Eradicating the tenuous boundary lines between idioms, Hollenbeck and company draw on ethnic traditions, free jazz, contemporary composition and progressive rock in their multifaceted explorations.

A former pupil of legendary jazz composer Bob Brookmeyer and an avowed student of the minimalists, Hollenbeck's compositions are imbued with both ...

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John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude

Read "Eternal Interlude" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sono passati i tempi nei quali il batterista era considerato una sorta di parente povero all'interno della grande famiglia musicale. Le barzellette su Ringo ormai fanno ridere solo Paul e quando ci troviamo al cospetto di un musicista a tutto tondo come John Hollenbeck non possiamo lasciarci condizionare dal fatto che il suo strumento elettivo sia per l'appunto la batteria. Hollenbeck è un fine compositore e sa condurre con bella energia e grandi doti di leadership una formazione allargata che ...

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John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: Eternal Interlude

Read "John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: Eternal Interlude" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Eternal Interlude Sunnyside Records 2009

The music on Eternal Interlude by drummer John Hollenbeck cannot be described in one word, but if it could that word would be “poignant." But of course, one word is not enough, so in settling for two, those would be “poignant" and “challenging." But then two words appear so insufficient, and the search widens and reveals, perhaps, an additional word to go with ...


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