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Keith Tippett: Viva La Black Live At Ruvo
by Martin Longley
Viva La Black, on this occasion, is Keith Tippett (piano), Julie Tippetts (vocals), Louis Moholo-Moholo (drums, now mysteriously doubling-up his name) and the rather large Canto General ensemble, recorded live at the Ruvo Festival in southern Italy. Their repertoire might suggest a 1970s date, but in reality this was only 2004, with a bold mission to recreate arrangements from the golden years of the Dedication Orchestra and Tippett's biggest of big bands, the bloated Centipede. An opening salvo ...
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by John Eyles
Viva La Black Live At Ruvo, recorded in 2004, is a collaboration between the Italian jazz orchestra Canto Generàl and singers from vocal ensemble Faraualla, Keith Tippett, his wife Julie Tippetts and legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. As well as playing piano, Tippett directs and conducts the orchestra; most of the compositions are also his. However, the presence of Moholo-Moholo is key, as much of the music here was originally created with South African exiles Dudu Pukwana, Harry Miller ...
read moreKeith Tippett - Julie Tippett - Louis Moholo-Moholo - Canto General: Viva La Black - Live At Ruvo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Entusiasmante. Non si può definire diversamente il concerto eseguito davanti a 1500 persone in una calda serata di settembre di tre anni fa durante lo storico festival di Ruvo di Puglia, e opportunamente immortalato su CD. Entusiasmante, perché testimonia il riuscito incontro tra realtà geograficamente distanti (Sud Africa, Puglia, Inghilterra) ma accomunate da uno stesso sentire e da una visione artistica con parecchi punti di contatto. Quelli che uniscono, per esempio, la musica della tradizione popolare con le libertà della ...
read moreMujician: There's No Going Back Now
by AAJ Italy Staff
I Mujician approdano con There’s No Going Back Now al settimo album con la consueta sensibilità improvvisativa. Diverse istanze confluiscono nel vocabolario del gruppo: dalla musica “eurocolta” al free di ispirazione afro-americana all’improvvisazione libera europea. Partita con un’introduzione densa e sostenuta, la musica si polarizza sul richiamo di cinque suoni ripetuti dal pianista, orientandosi verso un’espressività di matrice contemporanea, per ritornare al clima iterativo e lancinate di prima. Al pari dell’orizzonte sonoro, anche il ruolo dei singoli cambia nel corso ...
read moreTippett/Grew/Riley/Thomas: Pianoforte
by Andrey Henkin
The impetus for this album came from a meeting between pianists Stephen Grew and Keith Tippett at a London club. What resulted was a live concert from 2003 documenting a piano recital that included Grew, Tippett, Pat Thomas, and Howard Riley. The format of the album is straightfoward, if the music is far from it. Grew takes a long solo turn; he is then joined for two short duos with Thomas. Grew departs, leaving Thomas to make his ...
read moreThe 21st Century Guide to King Crimson: Volume One 1969-1974
by John Kelman
Of all the groups to emerge from the late '60s-early '70s heyday of British Progressive Rock (capitals fully intended), no group has reinvented itself more frequently and, perhaps, more rapidly than King Crimson. As time has gone on the group's ostensible leader Robert Fripp has refashioned the group through periods of high melodrama to nuevo metal and just about everything in between. Until recently, new fans who wanted an overview of the band had to satisfy themselves with the 4-CD ...
read moreKeith Tippett: Blueprint
by John Kelman
Following the sound and fury of his fifty-piece big band Centipede's '71 recording, Septober Energy (reissued in '00), British pianist Keith Tippett scaled things down for Blueprint , released in '72 and also recently reissued on CD by England's BGO records. Tippett had already created some waves with his first two releases, You Are Here... I Am There ('69) and Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening ('71), both larger ensemble works with the involvement of some of the period's ...
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