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Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors
by Vincenzo Roggero
Per festeggiare i vent'anni di attività il Chicago Underground Duo declina la sua ennesima versione e ci lascia un ulteriore testimonianza di potenza creativa, di visionarietà e di musica tout-court di altissimo livello. Nell'aprile 2016, durante una due giorni di esibizione al Cafè Oto di Londra Rob Mazurek e Chad Taylor invitano sul palco John Edwards e Alexander Hawkins e registrano i quattro lunghi brani presenti in A Night Walking Through Mirrors. Il risultato si diceva è eccellente.
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by Barry Witherden
Rob Mazurek is a remarkable musician, with a rare breadth and depth of expression. Off-hand, the only artist I can think of who possesses a similar emotional profile is Wadada Leo Smith. Like Smith, Mazurek can sear your ears and nerves one minute and soothe your soul the next, without any sense of strain or contrivance in the transition. This capacity was displayed in an especially emotional way with his 2014 release Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost ...
Continue ReadingRob Mazurek: Chimeric Stoned Horn
by Karl Ackermann
"Chimeric" is defined as imaginary or visionary and it is a fitting allegory for the surreal nature of Chimeric Stoned Horn. Composer, electronic artist, cornet virtuoso and multimedia artist Rob Mazurek's vocation in the visual field has progressively influenced his music and vice versa. These are not alter egos, but related facets of the artist and they play out organically. This solo album is a sequel to Vortice of the Faun (Astral Spirits, 2015) in that both take on acoustic ...
Continue ReadingRob Mazurek: Rome
by Karl Ackermann
Rob Mazurek has long been entrenched in his eclectic, global and multi-media creative sphere making it easy for listeners to forget his musical roots. With his 1994 leader debut, Man Facing East (Hep Records), he had already shown signs of breaking with convention, particularly on the title track of that album. The electro-acoustic cornet and keyboard player and visual artist began his music career in Chicago, working his way through hard bop and progressive rock before finding his place in ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Rob Mazurek (cornet, sampler & electronics) and Chad Taylor (drums, mbira & electronics) represent the Chicago delegation, aligning within Londoners Alexander Hawkins (piano) and John Edwards (bass) for a meeting of the experimental jazz minds on this exuberant live set. Hence, these prominent improvisers and progressive jazz laureates execute a surfeit of soul-jarring motifs, spiced with off-center EFX articulations and fractured segments amid a horde of protracted developments and synergistic improv. Other than Mazurek's Sao Paulo Underground and Exploding Star ...
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by Karl Ackermann
As an artist and a surveyor of a broader universe, Rob Mazurek focuses on the journey rather than on planting a flag in undiscovered territories. Whether on his multi-instrumental solo work Mother Ode (Corbett vs Dempsey, 2014) or in the large ensemble formation of his most recent Exploding Star Orchestra project, Galactic Parables: Volume 1 (Cuneiform, 2015), Mazurek has left his creative intuitions open to the influence of a deeply personal life force that often serves as his guide. More ...
Continue ReadingRob Mazurek Land of Spirals al Novara Jazz
by Vincenzo Roggero
Rob Mazurek Land of Spirals Novara Jazz 2016 Museo Etnografico di Tornaco 27.05.2016 L'idea di Enrico Bettinello, commissionata da Novara Jazz in collaborazione con AngelicA -Festival Internazionale di Musica, è di quelle intriganti. Riunire per alcuni giorni di residenza gomito a gomito, a stretto contatto fisico e di idee, alcuni musicisti italiani di grande talento e dalla mente aperta con una figura tra le più significative, apprezzate e carismatiche del panorama internazionale, quale è Rob ...
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