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Album Review

The End: Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen

Read "Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen" reviewed by Vitalijus Gailius


The End emerge as a massive collaboration among Norwegian baritone saxophonist Kjetil Møster, Swedish baritone sax hooligan Mats Gustafsson, Norwegian noise-jazz guitarist Anders Hana, the San Francisco-based avant-rock band Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier and miraculous singer Sofia Jernberg. The quintet's debut “Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen" manages to grasp several musical traditions. It sounds like a child that was born from extramarital affairs of New York no-wave, noise rock and free/avant-garde jazz. Such a collision between the aforementioned ...

Live Review

Altoadige Jazz Festival 2018

Read "Altoadige Jazz Festival 2018" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Varie Sedi Provincia di Bolzano 29.06--08.07.2018 Da alcuni anni il sottotitolo di questo festival potrebbe essere “Young European Jazz Festival," visto che il suo curatore Klaus Widmann evita accuratamente di invitare gruppi americani o nomi europei già troppo noti. Il suo obiettivo è invece quello di sondare le giovani tendenze nelle diverse aree europee, favorendo fra l'altro scambi di esperienze, incontri inediti e produzioni originali. Quest'anno lo sguardo si è posato in particolar modo ...

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Album Review

Fire!: The Hands

Read "The Hands" reviewed by John Eyles


There are reasons to consider the 2018 release of The Hands as an important one for Fire! It was in 2008 that saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werlin first came together as a trio with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music. Given the groups that the three were in at the time--Gustafsson in The Thing and others, Werlin in Wildbirds and Peacedrums, and Berthling in Angles--it was all too easy for Fire! to ...

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Book Review

All That's Jazz

Read "All That's Jazz" reviewed by Phil Barnes


All That's Jazz Sammy Stein 198 Pages ISBN: 13: 978-0-9557670-9-8 Tomahawk Press 2017 Sammy Stein is a brave woman. Take that title--not just a riff on “All That Jazz" to cover a personal memoir of time spent in the jazz trenches but ALL that IS jazz. This is a book that in the author's words attempts to ..."share this wonderful music with as many as possible, to allow people to understand that jazz ...

Book Review

Mats Gustafsson: Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Vol. 1

Read "Mats Gustafsson: Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Vol. 1" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Vol. 1 Mats Gustafsson 120 pagine Marhaug Forlag 2017 Chi ha avuto occasione di incrociare Mats Gustafsson nelle ore che precedono un suo concerto sa bene che, oltre al doveroso soundcheck, nell'agenda del sassofonista svedese non manca mai una capatina nei negozi di vinili usati della città in cui si trova. Oltre a essere uno degli improvvisatori e esploratori sonori più personali degli ultimi anni, Gustafsson è ...

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My Playlist

Mats Gustafsson

Read "Mats Gustafsson" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


If Mats Gustafsson's approach to music were to be described with a single adjective, it would have to be “intense." This applies to him both as a musician, as illustrated by over three decades of playing with stalwarts of the free and creative jazz scenes on both sides of the Ocean (Ken Vandermark, Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Derek Bailey etc.), and as a voracious crate-digger and record-trader with a two and a half ton vinyl cave in rural Austria. We ...

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My Playlist

Mats Gustafsson

Read "Mats Gustafsson" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


1. Hank Mobley, Hank Mobley (Blue Note, 1957). Il disco jazz definitivo?! È tutto perfettamente bilanciato in questa supersession. Il sax tenore è poetico e la tromba di Art Farmer non è mai stata così lirica ed emozionante. Art Blakey è un genio dello swing e la foto di copertina è una delle mie preferite. Questo disco è un must che ogni amante del jazz dovrebbe possedere. Quando riuscii ad avere una copia della prima stampa mono fu ...


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