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Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quello firmato dalla percussionista Marilyn Mazur è il classico album ECM, curatissimo nel dettaglio timbrico, pieno di sfumature e sottintesi, carico di leggerezza espressiva d'irresistibile appeal. In primo piano la voce eterea, dolce e cristallina, di Josefine Cronholm, un tratto di profonda femminilità che determina l'atmosfera generale di Celestial Circle, lavoro composto da quattordici tracce capaci di formare un unico corpo, dall'anima candida, dalle fattezze vaporose e fascinosamente impalpabili che si muove a passi felpati verso slanci di eleganza estrema. ...
Continue ReadingMakiko Hirabayashi: Makiko
by Jay Deshpande
Makiko Hirabayashi may be the ideal emblem of today's multicultural jazz musician, caught in a web of influences. Born in Tokyo and educated in Boston, Hirabayashi is now a major pianist in Denmark, where she resides. Her debut album signals this globalism, presenting her with two top-notch Danish players on her own compositions.Makiko showcases a careful choice of tones and sounds, all of which add up to a common texture: cloudy, occasionally mystifying, and most frequently somber. “Camel ...
Continue ReadingMarilyn Mazur: Elixir
by Budd Kopman
Percussionist Marilyn Mazur is a prime example of why many drummers these days are prone to listing themselves also as percussionists. The distinction is important beyond the number of instruments available to the player and involves the attitude towards their place in any musical enterprise. Drummer/percussionists like Paul Motian, Jon Christensen or Tony Oxley might not play as many instruments as Mazur, but their contribution to the music is more of a voice that happens to be ...
Continue ReadingMarilyn Mazur: Elixir
by John Kelman
Marilyn Mazur may be best remembered to North American audiences for her work with Miles Davis in the 1980s. Since then, however, the Danish percussionist has continued to lead an active musical life on her own projects including Small Labyrinths (ECM, 1997), as well as collaborating on ECM recordings by Eberhard Weber, Jon Balke and Jan Garbarek. She was also a member of Garbarek's touring band for fourteen years and so, when it came time for her to record Elixir, ...
Continue ReadingMarilyn Mazur - Jan Garbarek: Elixir
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se è vero che Marilyn Mazur ha potuto contare sull’appoggio e sul sostegno di tantissimi grandi, tra cui l’ultimo Miles Davis e Gil Evans, d’altra parte anche il suo sodalizio con Garbarek, iniziato nei primi anni Novanta, sembra essere uno dei punti fermi nella sua fulgida carriera. Dunque non stupisce che la percussionista abbia voluto condividere col sassofonista norvegese questo suo secondo disco ECM (il primo era Small Labyrinths del 1997), in cui sono immortalati una serie di duetti registrati ...
Continue ReadingMarilyn Mazur: Jordsange
by Glenn Astarita
Born in New York yet reared in Denmark, percussionist Marilyn Mazur has performed with a who’s who of modern jazz artists, which includes a stint with the late Miles Davis. Basically, Ms. Mazur is recognized as a percussionist who melds supple rhythms and multihued patterns into lyrically rich frameworks while adhering to compositional structure, nuance and subtly via her variegated array of instruments. These days, Ms. Mazur has been recording and touring with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek while also performing ...
Continue ReadingMarilyn Mazur: Jordsange
by Glenn Astarita
Born in New York yet reared in Denmark, percussionist Marilyn Mazur has performed with a who’s who of modern jazz artists, which includes a stint with the late Miles Davis. Basically, Ms. Mazur is recognized as a percussionist who melds supple rhythms and multihued patterns into lyrically rich frameworks while adhering to compositional structure, nuance and subtly via her variegated array of instruments. These days, Ms. Mazur has been recording and touring with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek while also performing ...
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