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Bobby Wellins Sextet: Homage To Caledonia
by Jack Kenny
Bobby Wellins said about the composition of “The Culloden Moor Suite:" “It was something that came to me after reading John Prebble's book about the Battle of Culloden and the way he described events leading up to it and the dreadful aftermath... I wanted to capture, not just the terrible sadness that must have resulted from what was a pretty horrific event, but also the sense of expectancy and celebration, even if it turned out to be misplaced, in the ...
Continue ReadingSteve Arguelles: Here
by Vincenzo Roggero
In che modo ci si approccia ad una registrazione di solo batteria, se sei un batterista che non crede negli assoli di batteria? Su questa domanda le note di copertina argomentano in modo brillante, lucido, esaustivo. Il musicista in questione è Steve Arguelles veterano della più vivace scena britannica, membro fondatore dei fondamentali Loose Tubes e Human Chain, collaboratore di musicisti come Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Hugh Masekela, Chris McGregor. La registrazione avviene nella chiesa luterana di ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill / Enzo Rocco: Fine Tuning - The Gradisca Concert
by Glenn Astarita
There are no hard and fast rules that suggest improvised music cannot be a congenial undertaking. Free expressionism should not always be engineered upon overly cerebral formats and ideologies, contrary to popular belief. Fabled saxophonist Lol Coxhill and prominent Italian guitarist Enzo Rocco conjure the best of both worlds throughout this amiable set, recorded live at a festival in Italy. For decades, Coxhill has been a staple within the British free-jazz movement, yet is a supremely versatile artist ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill - Roger Turner: Success with Your Dog
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lol Coxhill, monumento del free europeo, e Roger Turner, percussionista tra i più accreditati del panorama radicale (collaborazioni con Elton Dean, Alan Silva, Derek Bailey, Toshinori Kondo, Evan Parker, Tom Cora, Keith Rowe, Cecil Taylor ecc.) sono amici di lunga data. Si conoscono dall'inizio degli anni Settanta, periodo in cui il “Bald Soprano" si divideva tra la scena blues e progressive (Delivery e i Whole World di Kevin Ayers), i primi exploit di una, oggi, gloriosa carriera solistica (è del ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill / Roger Turner: Success With Your Dog
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Listening to soprano saxophonist, Lol Coxhill on Success With Your Dog, it is tempting to dwell on the thought that Coxhill pushes the straight horn further, much further, than the late Steve Lacy. It is, of course, natural. Coxhill emerged around the same time as Lacy, and both men came long after Sidney Bechet, and the man who sent them on their journey of musical discovery, John Coltrane. By this time, both men's paths had been made clear, and in ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill and Roger Turner: Success with your Dog
by John Eyles
Saxophonist Lol Coxhill and drummer Roger Turner go back a long way. They first played together in the early '70s and ever since they have come together regularly in a variety of settings, including The Recedents, their trio with guitarist Mike Cooper. Recently, they have most often played as a duo, and remarkably, Success with your Dog is their first release as a duo; for that reason, it is a welcome arrival. Three of its tracks date from a 2003 ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill: From Whichford Hill
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'Oxford Jazz Master Series, di cui questo disco fa parte, è un progetto concepito nel 2005 per ospitare grandi esponenti della musica improvvisata britannica e non (tra gli italiani c'è Stefano Pastor) nella Holywell Music Room di Oxford, rinomata nel mondo per la sua perfetta acustica. La serie di concerti è stata inaugurata nel febbraio 2006 da Evan Parker assieme al gruppo base, costituito dal sax baritono George Haslam, dal pianista Richard Leigh Harris e dal bassista Steve Hershaw. In ...
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