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Oversáez, Roscoe Mitchell, Marco Eneidi & Gulliver
by Maurice Hogue
Featured music in this episode begins with German pianist Sandro Sáez and his trio Oversáez. What an exciting and original trio! Their ablum Abstract Emotions is filled with mystery, unexpected twists and turns, power and subtlety. Definitely worth checking out. Then you might want to listen to One Head Four People, featuring the enduring master,Roscoe Mitchell, playing bass saxophone, or Wheat Fields Of Kleylehof by the Marco Eneidi Quintet. This late saxophonist is an often overlooked major influence on the ...
Continue ReadingRoscoe Mitchell: One Head Four People
by Fran Kursztejn
"I'm always trying to take what's there and, in the end, make it sound like nothing's missing from it," Roscoe Mitchell relates in a 2016 interview, in relation to his string of European solo concerts, yet the statement is just as relevant to the jazz giant's newest studio release, One Head Four People, as any other. The recording comes just as Mitchell's 2014 performance (released on ugEXPLODE, 2021) A Railroad Spike Forms the Voice celebrates its ten year anniversary, and ...
Continue ReadingRoscoe Mitchell & Michele Rabbia ad AngelicA
by Libero Farnè
Roscoe Mtchell, Michele Rabbia Centro di Ricerca Musicale--Teatro San Leonardo Bologna 3.5.2024 AngelicA 34, festival musicale consolidato nella sua unicità trasversale e possibilista da oltre tre decenni di esperienza, ha aperto i battenti il 2 maggio con una serata dedicata a Stefano Scodanibbio, che collaborò più volte con la manifestazione felsinea come uno degli interpreti supremi di quell'unicità estetica. Nella seconda parte del concerto ha preso rilievo la performance del Quatuor Bozzini, quartetto d'archi canadese ...
Continue ReadingSound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck
by Tom Spargo
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM Paul Steinbeck 272 Pages ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82953-1University of Chicago PressHardback 2022/ Paperback 2023 Paul Steinbeck's Sound Experiments is a historical narrative and technical analysis of the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Steinbeck traces the chronology of this wildly creative organization from its origins in the mid-1960s to the present day through the course ten chapters, each dedicated to a particularly influential album, composition, or live ...
Continue ReadingOstrava Days 2023
by Martin Longley
Klub Parník, Plato, Triple Hall Karolina, etc. Ostrava, Czech Republic August 28-September 2, 2023 Ostrava Days happens once every two years, mostly dedicated to the well-being of new music, composed for varying sizes of ensembles, right up to a fully-bloated orchestra. Sometimes, though, works will be penned for mere solo performers. It has always had extended ears for jazz, improvisation and electronic musics, as well as rock'n'roll being an increasingly strong influence on moderne ...
Continue ReadingArt Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris
by John Sharpe
Having first come to international prominence in Paris at the end of the '60s, it seems fitting for the Rogue Art imprint to celebrate the Art Ensemble Of Chicago's progression into their sixth decade in the same city. This double CD documents the performance of an extended AEC at the Sons d'hiver Festival in February 2019. Only reedman & composer Roscoe Mitchell and drummer Famoudou Don Moye survive from the original quintet but, rather than accept this as a limitation, ...
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