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Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Mike Reed: Artifacts
by Vic Albani
I figli crescono. Terza generazione della mai troppo celebrata AACM chicagoana, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid e Mike Reed danno alle stampe un interessantissimo CD che è già stato votato da molte testate specializzate quale uno dei migliori, se non il migliore disco di jazz dello scorso anno. Artifacts è innanzitutto uno splendido tributo alle filosofie della AACM, per certi versi irripetibile avventura della migliore declinazione del vocabolo “creatività" nella storia della musica afro-americana tout-court ...
Continue ReadingNicole Mitchell al Teatro Franco Parenti
by Paolo Peviani
Nicole Mitchell Jazz Al Parenti Teatro Franco Parenti Milano 25.04.2016 Sul programma presentato a inizio rassegna, Nicole Mitchell avrebbe dovuto essere al Teatro Franco Parenti con il suo quartetto Black Earth String, ovvero con Renee Baker al violino, Josh Abrams al contrabbasso e Tomeka Reid al violoncello. A volte però nel jazz, ma non solo nel jazz, le cose non vanno secondo i programmi. “Life is what happens to you ...
Continue ReadingNicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed: Artifacts
by Hrayr Attarian
Flutist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Mike Reed are three of the most prominent members of the third generation of Association for Advancement of Creative Music (AACM). Each one is a consummate musician; equally adept at composing and improvising. Each one of them has forged their boldly unique artistic path with an instantly recognizable soundTheir collaborative album Artifacts is a compelling and exquisite work that augments their innovative individual styles with a superb almost telepathic camaraderie. ...
Continue ReadingNicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson
by John Sharpe
Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. For their second outing after Emerald Hills (Rogue Art, 2010) she draws inspiration from another hard blowing source in Chicago legend Fred Anderson. Not only a mentor to many young musicians in the Windy City, the saxophonist also ran the renowned Velvet Lounge tavern. That required a whole different order of skills to keep it going for so long: negotiation, organization, graft and resourcefulness in the face of gangsters and ...
Continue ReadingNicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings
by John Sharpe
Intergalactic Beings forms the second chapter in flutist Nicole Mitchell's science fiction derived discographical strand. Like the first, Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008), it showcases Mitchell the composer, again drawing her inspiration from the Afrofuturist novels of Octavia Butler, in which survivors of nuclear holocaust are plucked from earth by aliens who believe that interbreeding is the only way to save the humans from themselves. Commissioned by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the recording documents the premier at the ...
Continue ReadingNicole Mitchell: Engraved In The Wind
by John Sharpe
As a musician, flutist Nicole Mitchell brooks no constraints to her artistry. Not content with large scale orchestral works, such as Arc of O (Rogue Art, 2012), small group interaction with her Indigo Trio and mid-sized ensembles exemplified by her Black Earth Ensemble on Three Compositions (Rogue Art, 2013), she now takes on the ultimate challenge for the single line instrumentalist: the solo album. Of course, it's a misnomer to suggest that Mitchell can only follow one tack at once, ...
Continue ReadingHarris Eisenstadt: Golden State
by AAJ Italy Staff
Già l'organico, con una front line forte di flauto e fagotto, ci dice quali tinte cameristiche avvolgano questo CD del batterista canadese (tutti suoi i brani), inciso nel novembre 2012 a San Diego, dove vive e insegna Mark Dresser. In verità la componente jazzistica è tutt'altro che elusa, il che si avverte con chiarezza già nel secondo brano, “It Is Never Safe to Be," e ancora in svariati altri momenti del disco. Il fagotto, fortemente caratterizzante sul piano timbrico, risulta ...
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