Jazz Articles about Mike Fahie

About Mike Fahie

Album Review

The mingling of jazz music and poetry is not a new concept. It has always been an amiable, yet at times, uncomfortable fit. From a verse standpoint, it is in many ways liberating. While most vocalized lyrics and spoken word forms rely on rhyme to speak to cadence and rhythm, free verse poetry liberates the narrative from the confinements of structure, and much like an improvising instrumentalist, takes spoken language into a intertwining duality with the melody within harmonic dimension. ...

Album Review

Andrew Rathbun: Atwood Suites

Read "Atwood Suites" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
August 7, 2018

In a way, the Atwood Suites have been in the works for almost two decades. When Kenny Wheeler approached Toronto native Andrew Rathbun in search for a band in 2001, the former furthermore inquired if the latter would like a composition of his own penning to be performed beside Wheeler's “Suite Time Suite." Consequently, the “Power Politics Suite," which makes for the second half of the first CD, was born, with Wheeler's and vocalist Luciana Souza's sound specifically in mind. ...

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Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble: Atwood Suites

Read "Atwood Suites" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 25, 2018

The marriage between jazz and poetry is having a true moment in the present artistic sphere. The two have long mixed and mingled, oft proving sympathetic and symbiotic in their multidirectional moves, unique cadences, and improvisational capacities. But never before has the connection been so strong and centralized. With drummer Matt Wilson's triumphant encounter with the work of Carl Sandburg, soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom's exploration of Emily Dickinson's writing, saxophonist Benjamin Boone's collaboration with Philip Levine, and a handful ...

Album Review

Mike Fahie: Anima

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 14, 2010

Dopo aver suonato con un bel numero di artisti emergenti, aver prestato i servigi del proprio trombone ad orchestre sopraffine come quella di Maria Schneider, dopo aver creato una sua orchestra per sperimentare le proprie attitudine compositive per ensemble di grandi dimensioni, Mike Fahie debutta con un classico quintetto convocando quattro compagni di viaggio da far tremare i polsi. Il risultato è che Anima sembra una reunion di amici di lunga data, che si ritrovano a suonare con grande naturalezza, ...