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Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust
by Karl Ackermann
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Rob Mazurek has made his Exploding Star Orchestra the centerpiece of his larger groups. In this formation, he finds ample room to channel his disparate influences such as Sun Ra and Bill Dixon, and the distinctions he's absorbed as a global citizen. On Dimensional Stardust Mazurek and a dozen collaborators present an energetic, always changeable, genre-less mélange of styles held together by imagination and daring. The imposing Exploding Star Orchestra includes flautist Nicole ...
Continue ReadingClaudio Vignali: Rach Mode On
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Dopo l'ottimo esordio di Indu Juggernaut e gli interessanti dischi collaborativi del 2016 Now and Then e Revert, Claudio Vignali prosegue il suo appassionante viaggio alla ricerca di territori sonori inesplorati tornando in studio di registrazione insieme a Daniele Principato, con il quale ha intrapreso fino dal 2012 un percorso di integrazione fra strumenti acustici ed elettronica, e Rob Mazurek, il visionario cornettista e compositore ormai punto di riferimento della scena jazz di Chicago nell'ambito dell'improvvisazione musicale. Il ...
Continue ReadingCene Resnik Free Stellar Trio + Rob Mazurek: Age Of Chaos
by Angelo Leonardi
È una lunghissima improvvisazione collettiva di 55 minuti ripresa il 17 maggio 2018 al ventitreesimo Jazz Cerkno Festival. Protagonisti il Free Stellar trio del sassofonista Cene Resnik con ospite Rob Mazurek al piccolo trumpet. Chi non è avvezzo all'estetica della libera improvvisazione può essere indotto in errore dal titolo che non intende riferirsi alla musica prodotta ma all'epoca caotica in cui viviamo e forse allude all'attuale Età di Degenerazione, descritta dalla cosmologia buddhista. Il sassofonista sloveno è infatti praticante di ...
Continue ReadingJeff Parker & The New Breed: Suite For Max Brown
by Jerome Wilson
Guitarist Jeff Parker spent many years in Chicago involved in the city's fertile jazz and experimental music scene, primarily as a member of the AACM and the band Tortoise. In 2013 he relocated to Los Angeles. Since then, his music as a leader has combined a 70's rhythm and blues vibe with the sampling, electronic manipulation and serial techniques he was involved with in Chicago. This album, dedicated to his mother whose maiden name was Maxine Brown, shows just how ...
Continue ReadingChicago Underground Quartet: Good Days
by Karl Ackermann
Of the many Rob Mazurek led groups, his Chicago Underground collective has been the most prolific and adventurous cooperative with seven duo outings and another four trio releases. The quartet version of Chicago Underground, like the 1998 “Orchestra" formation, had issued only one album, the self-titled debut on the Thrill Jockey label in 2001. A one-off quartet project (Chicago/London Underground) A Night Walking Through Mirrors (Cuneiform Records, 2017) featured Mazurek, drummer Chad Taylor, British pianist Alexander Hawkins, and bassist John ...
Continue ReadingRob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra at "Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2019"
by Danilo Codazzi
