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Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle

Read "Celestial Circle" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 10, 2011

Celestial Circle might appear to be a conventional, piano trio-based vocal record on the surface, but it's an impression quickly dismissed with a closer look at its participants. Marilyn Mazur knows her way around a drum kit in no uncertain terms, but it's her more integrated approach, with an oft-times massive array of percussion--gongs, wood blocks, pots and other things that can be struck with hands, sticks and brushes--that has allowed the American-born/Denmark-raised and resident percussionist to evolve a more ...

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Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle

Read "Celestial Circle" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 4, 2011

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. ...

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Makiko Hirabayashi: Makiko

by Jay Deshpande
May 14, 2008

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 ...

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Marilyn Mazur: Elixir

by Budd Kopman
May 1, 2008

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 ...

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Marilyn Mazur: Elixir

by John Kelman
April 9, 2008

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, ...

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Marilyn Mazur - Jan Garbarek: Elixir

Read "Elixir" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 19, 2008

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 ...

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Marilyn Mazur: Jordsange

by Glenn Astarita
October 1, 2000

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 ...