Jazz Articles about Mats Gustafsson

About Mats Gustafsson

Album Review

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 ...

Book Review

All That's Jazz

by Phil Barnes
December 6, 2017

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

by AAJ Staff
November 15, 2017

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 ...

My Playlist

Mats Gustafsson

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 15, 2017

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 ...

My Playlist

Mats Gustafsson

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 7, 2017

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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Mats Gustafsson

by Paolo Peviani
December 9, 2016

Il tratto principale della mia musica Devono giudicarlo gli altri. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La dedizione e il fuoco. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Sempre il momento che verrà. Come musicista, il mio principale difetto I difetti e gli errori sono le fondamenta su cui è costruita questa musica. La mia più grande paura quando suono

Album Review

Mats Gustafsson: MG50 Peace & Fire

Read "MG50 Peace & Fire" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 12, 2016

Mats Gustafsson at fifty. Name another artist who has had this significant and widespread effect on jazz, noise, free improvisation, alternative rock, electronica, and free jazz. Besides John Zorn, that pool is quite shallow. Gustafsson's music seems to attract innovative players into imaginative situations. If you are a fan, this 50th birthday celebration recorded in October, 2014 at Porgy and Bess, Vienna is your personal slice of cake. If you know nothing about Gustafsson's music, this is a great introduction ...