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Paul Rutherford: An Homage

Read "Paul Rutherford: An Homage" reviewed by Torsten Muller


It was 1975. I was a teenager at my parent's house on the lonely moors of Northern Germany, feverishly opening a package from FMP Records in Berlin, my lifeline to the world of free jazz and improvised music that I had recently discovered. The package contained one LP, Paul Rutherford's Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie. I rushed to my room to put this object of desire, a record of solo trombone music, about which I had been speculating for weeks ...

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From Far and Wide

Paul Rutherford In Memoriam: 1940-2007

Read "Paul Rutherford In Memoriam: 1940-2007" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The passing of Paul reminds us of the fragility of living life as a pioneer in an uncertain musical world. Our work together in Iskra 1903 represented the buoyant days of intense experimentation in the small ensemble, but Paul was also busy working with several large groups -Westbrook, Globe Unity, London Jazz Composers Orchestra and later the Charlie Watts Big Band. Appearances of these groups, by their very nature, were infrequent, and as concerts became harder to arrange, so did ...

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Album Review

Paul Rutherford - Philipp Wachsmann - Barry Guy: Iskra 1903: Chapter Two: 1981-3

Read "Iskra 1903: Chapter Two: 1981-3" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il triplo CD in esame documenta alcune registrazioni realizzate dal vivo, nei primi anni ’80, da Iskra 1903, dopo che il precedente cofanetto Chapter One: 1970-1972 aveva illustrato, in modo non meno esauriente, la prima edizione del gruppo. In questa nuova incarnazione, Philipp Wachsann subentra a Derek Bailey, affiancando i membri “storici” Paul Rutherford e Barry Guy. E’ merito proprio del violinista avere disseppellito dagli archivi queste incisioni, che consentono di avere un’idea sufficientemente ampia della musica prodotta dalla seconda ...

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Album Review

Aa.Vv.: Freedom of the City 2005

Read "Freedom of the City 2005" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Freedom of the city 2005 è la registrazione quasi integrale del Freedom of the City Festival, realizzata il primo maggio del 2005 a Londra. E, come sottolinea Martin Davidson nelle note di copertina, la scelta degli organizzatori è stata quella di privilegiare gruppi mai esibitisi insieme prima di allora (a parte naturalmente la London Improvisers Orchestra). E proprio dal leggendario ensemble londinese arrivano le cose migliori del disco: attraverso tre conduction differenti l’orchestra mostra una grande compattezza di suono, un’altrettanto ...

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Album Review

Paul Rutherford: Iskra³

Read "Iskra³" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Fedele ai dettami intransigenti (e perciò assai poco cool) dell’improvvisazione libera, guidata solo dall’interazione empatica che s’instaura tra i suoi co-autori/attori, la Psi di Evan Parker continua a estrarre tesori dal passato e preziosi gioielli dall’oggi. Tra questi ultimi si inserisce una nuova incarnazione di Iskra, formazione che, da oltre trent’anni, raccoglie intorno a Paul Rutherford esponenti di primo piano della scena inglese: d’indiscusso valore, in particolare, sono le incisioni, sotto la sigla Iskra 1903, dei primi anni ’70 con ...

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Interview

Paul Rutherford: A Musician's Impulse

Read "Paul Rutherford: A Musician's Impulse" reviewed by Clifford Allen


An architect of free improvisation on the trombone, Englishman Paul Rutherford was, along with German Albert Mangelsdorff, one of the first to fully develop the potential of multiphonics on the instrument. Renowned as a soloist, his work with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, drummer Tony Oxley, and his own Iskra ensembles was a catalyst of what has been termed “non-idiomatic improvisation, though bebop facility and Dixieland tailgate permeate his dexterous and vocal approach. Recently his work has included live electronics, though ...

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Album Review

Paul Rutherford: Neuph

Read "Neuph" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ecco una ristampa che ci ricorda come l'improvvisazione europea non sia solo fraintendimento del free, ma possa trovare delle coordinate per esprimere una ricerca di sostanza. Qualcosa di raro ed e' curioso come sia di frequente legata agli strumenti piu' gravi come il contrabbasso o, in questo caso, trombone e bombardino di Paul Rutherford. Forse, anche se non agili, sono strumenti dotati di un margine di indeterminatezza nell'intonazione e produzione del suono, che si puo' esplorare alla ricerca di anfratti ...


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