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Tracy Yang: OR

Read "OR" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il percorso biografico e artistico di Tracy Yang ha molte affinità con quello di Jihye Lee, l'ormai nota arrangiatrice e bandleader coreana che s'è imposta con i significativi album Infinite Connections e Daring Mind. Tracy Yang viene da Taiwan, dove lavorava come radiologa. Come Jihyie Lee ha appreso in un decennio le tecniche dell'orchestrazione partendo da zero, ha studiato al Berklee e in altri college statunitensi e fatto esperienza sul campo a New York. Darcy James ...

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Tracy Yang: OR

Read "OR" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Darcy James Argue and Maria Schneider have produced music in recent years that is setting new parameters. They have broadened the scope of jazz by mining inspiration from unlikely sources: Argue finds inspiration in politics and conspiracy theories; Schneider looked at the data world, both artists revivifying the large jazz orchestra. A new name can be added: Tracy Yang. Yang has her own preoccupations: music, photography and ecology. Yang's story has many intriguing aspects. To abandon a career ...

Album Review

Yu Nishiyama Big Band: A Lotus In The Mud

Read "A Lotus In The Mud" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Una giovane e talentuosa bandleader aggiorna la tradizione delle grandi orchestratrici del Sol Levante, da Toshiko Akiyoshi a Miho Hazama. La musica presente nel debutto di Yu Nishiyama va oltre un puntuale modern mainstream per big band ma colpisce per la fantasiosa scrittura, caratterizzata da percorsi ricchi di svolte, tra aristocratici contrasti timbrici, poderosi ensemble e trascinanti interventi solisti. Una visione orchestrale matura, ricca di tensione e dalla bella carica spettacolare. Trasferitasi da Yokohama negli Stati Uniti ...


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