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TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2018
by John Kelman
2018 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Multiple Venues Ottawa, Canada June 21-June 26, 2018 For its 2018 edition, the 39th annual TD Ottawa Jazz Festival faced a number of significant logistical challenges. First, Confederation Park, which has traditionally been the location of its large, outdoor venue, a food court and number of shops where attendees can pick up CDs of the artist they just saw, T-Shirts and more, is currently under renovation and, therefore, ...
Continue ReadingMarius Neset: Circle of Chimes
by Vincenzo Roggero
Prosegue con ottimi risultati la collaborazione tra il pluripremiato sassofonista norvegese Marius Neset e la prestigiosa etichetta tedesca Act. E va sempre più definendosi quella che sembra essere la qualità preminente del trentaduenne musicista di Bergen ossia la scrittura per formazioni di medie/grandi dimensioni. Se nel precedente Snowmelt era addirittura la London Sinfonietta a dar voce alle sue composizioni in Circle of Chime il quintetto che aveva dato alle stampe l'ottimo Pinball viene allargato a ottetto con l'innesto, tra gli ...
Continue ReadingIan Patterson's Best Releases of 2017
by Ian Patterson
I'm always conscious of the fact that no matter how much new music you listen to in a given year it represents but a handful of stars in a teeming galaxy. These are a few of the brightest stars to have illuminated my 2017. The Firebirds Aladdin's Dream ILK Music The Firebirds, the Danish trio of drummer Stefan Pasborg, saxophonist/clarinetist Anders Banke and keyboardist Anders Filipsen recorded a brilliant tribute to the music ...
Continue ReadingMarius Neset: Circle of Chimes
by Ian Patterson
It's not just the breath-taking scope and depth of saxophonist/composer Marius Neset's ACT Music releases, Lion (2014), Snowmelt (2016) and now Circle of Chimes (2017) that's remarkable, but the fact that such powerful waves of music have come from the thirty-two-year old Norwegian in the span of just three years.Stylistically diverse as they are, these recordings can be seen together as signposts along the way of Neset's probing journey into terrain where labels seem increasingly inadequate. So too, ...
Continue ReadingMarius Neset/London Sinfonietta: Snowmelt
by Ian Patterson
That Marius Neset would eventually produce an extended orchestral-inspired work had been on the cards for some time. As early as his debut as leader, Suite for the Seven Mountains (Calibrated, 2008), the Norwegian saxophonist was incorporating strings into a contemporary jazz setting with a very personal stamp of authority. The extraordinary Birds (Edition Records, 2013) took the concept to exhilarating heights, with the addition of just a seven-piece chamber ensemble to his quintet producing complex, multi-layered sonic tapestries that ...
Continue ReadingLive From Birmingham: Marius Neset, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Death Shanties & The Apex Jazz And Swing Band
by Martin Longley
Marius Neset CBSO Centre April 10, 2015 Not an artist who's interested in stasis, the Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset spent most of two sets unveiling pieces from his new Pinball album, which was released at the beginning of 2015. It's his fourth recording, and Neset seems set on making this a pleasingly prolific annual event. The album features Jim Hart (vibraphone/marimba) and Petter Eldh (bass), but they were also joined for this gig ...
Continue ReadingMarius Neset: Pinball
by Vincenzo Roggero
Potremmo parlare di prove tecniche per un grande album, qualcosa che si possa avvicinare allo stato dell'arte attuale nella già corposa carriera di Marius Neset. Pinball, questo il titolo del CD, si lascia apprezzare parecchio, motivi di interesse ce ne sono, più di uno, dalla scrittura brillante e dal respiro orchestrale alla registrazione impeccabile, dal pieno controllo e valorizzazione delle dinamiche alla pregevole attenzione al suono e alle sue diramazioni spesso lussureggianti, dagli arrangiamenti precisi e pertinenti alla qualità dei ...
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