Jazz Articles about Pierre Boulez

About Pierre Boulez

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Sun Ra: Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez

Read "Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
April 1, 2026

Most will remember John Cage Meets Sun Ra (Meltdown Records, 1987), drawn from a June 8, 1986 concert at Coney Island, at the initiative of producer Rick Russo to promote his new label. Cage did not know Ra, Ra barely knew Cage, and by most accounts the encounter was a non-encounter. A similar experience brought Ra and Pierre Boulez together that same year. The tapes were lost, recovered, and remastered in 2024: yielding the album Heimstad: Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez.

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Pierre Boulez: Notations & Piano Sonatas

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2007

“Notations” e “Piano Sonatas” sono due importanti pezzi del repertorio per piano solo di Pierre Boulez, scritti in età giovanile nell’arco di un decennio, che rivelano tutto il debito e la passione del compositore francese per la seconda scuola viennese e per il maestro Olivier Messiaen. È davvero un lieto evento che la hat[now]ART abbia pubblicato una loro interpretazione curata dall’emergente pianista di Taiwan Pi-Hsien Chen. La “Sonata nr. 1” per piano solo, composta e creata nel 1946, rappresenta la ...