Jazz Articles about Mads Tolling

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Mads Tolling and the Mads Men: Playing the 60s

by C. Michael Bailey
January 19, 2017

From the first arco tones, something sounds very familiar, yet hard to identify. The tone in question is big and full, dry, but not too much so. Were this tone a libation, it would be an Old Fashion. Sleek and commanding, yes, this makes me think of Svend Asmussen. This should be no surprise both wunderkind Mads Tolling and Asmussen are Danes with solid technical ability on the violin and a prodigious knowledge of the jazz songbook. Assmussen has just ...

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Mads Tolling Quartet: Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty

by Glenn Astarita
September 9, 2012

Mads Tolling spent nine prominent years with the Turtle Island Quartet; here, with his quartet, the Grammy Award-winning violinist hails Jean Luc-Ponty at Yoshi's jazz venue in Oakland, CA. Tolling contributes two original compositions to complement six Ponty-penned works, amid other pieces culled from the legendary French violinist's expansive discography. It's a bit sleeker, when directly contrasting Ponty's epic jazz-fusion Enigmatic Ocean (Atlantic, 1977). But Tolling turns up the heat via his intensely soaring unison choruses with ...

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Mads Tolling: The Playmaker

by Woodrow Wilkins
January 11, 2010

Former wide receiver Michael Irvin earned his nickname, “The Playmaker," for his leadership and performance with the Dallas Cowboys. Violinist Mads Tolling honors several others whose play-making proficiency has helped their teams, whether in the athletic arena or on the stage. A two-time Grammy Award-winner, Tolling is a native of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, but has also performed with Al Di Meola, Kenny Barron, Paquito D'Rivera and Leo Kottke. For The ...

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Mads Tolling: The Playmaker

by John Kelman
October 24, 2009

He's been around for a few years as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, but for some he's best known for his work on Stanley Clarke's welcome return to fusion, The Toys of Men (Heads Up, 2007). Either way, The Playmaker isn't the violinist's first release as a leader--that would be Speed of Light (Self Published, 2008)--but it's the first to expand his trio, featuring guitarist Mike Abraham and bassist George Ban- Weiss, to a more powerful quartet with ...

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Turtle Island Quartet: A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2007

Un lungo filo unisce la produzione discografica del Turtle Island Quartet, attivo sulla scena musicale dal 1985: è il continuo rimando all’estetica del jazz, non sporadicamente riletta con gustosi omaggi. Davis, Ellington, Monk e Coltrane sono alcuni degli autori di volta in volta riproposti con piglio originale, dall’alto di una pratica non convenzionale. Interamente dedicato a Trane, nell’anno che segna il quarantennale della sua scomparsa, è questo un disco ricco di avvincenti sorprese. Benché sotteso da un percorso in bilico ...

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Turtle Island Quartet: A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

by Terrell Kent Holmes
May 7, 2007

The Turtle Island Quartet honors saxophone titan John Coltrane with A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane, putting its distinct signature on tunes written by, inspired by, or associated with Trane in ways that are faithful to the original concepts while giving them new dimensions and depth. Jimmy Garrison's signature four-note bass figure serves as a leitmotif throughout the Quartet's fine interpretation of A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964). By adding their unique touches to Trane's masterpiece, ...

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Turtle Island String Quartet: A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

by C. Michael Bailey
April 7, 2007

John Coltrane has been the inspiration for a number of musical considerations. Karrin Allyson's Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (Concord, 2001) was a brilliantly well-conceived thematic recording. The Marsalis brothers each released Coltrane-related thoughts in Wynton's Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme (Palmetto, 2005) and Branford's Branford Marsalis Quartet Performs Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam (Marsalis Music, 2004). Add the Turtle Island String Quartet to the mix with its A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane.

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