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Bererberg Trio: Josh Berman - Christoph Erb - Fred Lonberg-Holm: Feel Beetrr

Read "Feel Beetrr" reviewed by Libero Farnè


L'improvvisazione radicale è come il blues! Vale a dire sempre uguale a se stessa e sempre diversa: uguale e pervicacemente ripetitiva nel metodo, nella prassi e negli obiettivi perseguiti nei decenni, sempre minutamente diversa nei risultati, variando di volta in volta gli umori, i retroterra culturali, le capacità espressive, le personalità dei singoli creatori. Ovviamente variano di conseguenza l'affiatamento, la motivazione e la qualità del loro interplay. In particolare in questo CD (che fra l'altro conferma l'attenzione dedicata ...

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Fred Lonberg-Holm's Fast Citizens: Gather

Read "Gather" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il cinquantenne violoncellista (ma nello specifico anche chitarrista e cornettista) chicagoano Fred Lonberg-Holm è qui alla testa di un sestetto pieno di sostanza, nel cui operato una palpabile spina dorsale compositiva non prevarica mai lo slancio del singolo. I percorsi sono in effetti piuttosto articolati, strutturalmente ricchi, cangianti, con una vivacità soprattutto timbrica che sgorga spontanea dall'intersecarsi delle varie voci. Se qua e là può al limite avvertirsi un minimo di schematicità, ciò che fa regolarmente lievitare le quotazioni di ...

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Josh Berman & His Gang: There Now

Read "There Now" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Cinque dei brani presenti in There Now portano direttamente ai Roaring Twenties, i ruggenti Anni Venti nei quali impazzavano le prime formazioni jazz e si affermavano personaggi come Eddie Condon, figura leggendaria che animava con i suoi gruppi le roventi notti di Chicago. Proprio da Chicago arriva la Gang di Josh Berman, cornettista, già membro della Exploding Star Orchestra di Rob Mazurek, e figura assai attiva nella Windy City sia come promotore culturale nell'ambito della musica improvvisata che leader di ...

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Josh Berman & His Gang: There Now

Read "There Now" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Josh Berman is a gambler. There Now initially gives the impression that the cornetist's reversion to the music of Eddie Condon and Pee Wee Russell is only a bluff. His gang of young Chicago improvisers weaves in and out of the 1920s, inserting free jazz passages and improvised duos that could not be anticipated in the early part of 20th century.On There Now, it is as if he raises the musical ante with, “I call your Lincoln City, ...

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Josh Berman: Old Idea

Read "Old Idea" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Cornetist Josh Berman is no stranger to the improvised music scene. He not only leads his own bands--Josh Berman's Old Idea and Josh Berman and His Gang--he has played with some major improvisers including Bill Dixon, Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars. Berman goes beyond performance in his involvement as co- founder of the Umbrella Music Group and the co-curator and vice president of the Emerging Improvisers Organization.

Berman is a thinker, an approach that pays rich dividends in ...

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Josh Berman: Old Idea

Read "Old Idea" reviewed by Nic Jones


If it really is about old ideas, as the title of this album by cornetist Josh Berman states, then the ones expressed here are done so in collective tongues fresh enough to be transformative, from mouths breathing new life into them. Berman has been a stalwart of the Chicago improvised music community for awhile now, and he brings his experience to bear on his first date as a leader, in a manner that others would do well to observe.

This ...

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Josh Berman: Old Idea

Read "Old Idea" reviewed by Troy Collins


As co-leader of the Emerging Improvisers and Umbrella Collective with drummer Mike Reed, cornetist Josh Berman has been a pivotal force in the Chicago jazz scene. A regular member of Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown, Jeb Bishop's Lucky 7's, Keefe Jackson's Project Project and Fast Citizens and Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Berman has proven to be a strong new voice of the post-Vandermark generation. A richly textured and delicately nuanced record, Old Idea is Berman's long awaited debut as ...


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