Jazz Articles about Roscoe Mitchell

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Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra: Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College March 19-20, 2018

Read "Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College March 19-20, 2018" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 5, 2019

Roscoe Mitchell è sempre stato uomo di grandi appetiti creativi. Fin da inizio carriera, ormai ben oltre mezzo secolo fa, ha perseguito un'idea del jazz (e della musica in senso lato) molto aperta, innovativa, fortemente personale. Non ha mai disdegnato l'area cosiddetta “contemporanea" (che forse ha praticato meno di quanto avrebbe voluto, essendosi troppo spesso trovato in altre faccende affaccendato) e questo suo nuovo lavoro, realizzato alla veneranda età di anni settantotto (quasi: li avrebbe compiuti il successivo 3 agosto), ...

Interview

Stefano Merighi - Direttore Artistico del Centro D'Arte Padova

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 14, 2018

All About Jazz: Il Centro d'Arte dell'Università di Padova ha una storia lunga più di settant'anni (è iniziata nel lontano 1945). Ce la puoi ricordare sottolineando i momenti chiave? Stefano Merighi: Sì, è una storia unica nel suo genere, e complessa. Sintetizzando: il primo nucleo studentesco del Centro d'Arte promuoveva incontri di letteratura e arti figurative. Negli anni '50 subentra un interesse più specificamente musicale. Conferenze, rassegne tematiche, con al centro la musica da camera e quella ...

Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell / Matthew Shipp: Accelerated Projection

Read "Accelerated Projection" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 10, 2018

Here's one from the vaults that still retains currency. This duo recital captures pianist Matthew Shipp and reedman Roscoe Mitchell in concert at the 2005 Sant'Anna Arresi festival in Sardinia. Shipp has enjoyed a lengthy association with the veteran Art Ensemble of Chicago founder, documented on This Dance For Steve McCall (Black Saint, 1992) and Nine To Get Ready (ECM, 1999). Even though the pianist has since forged a successful career as leader, the pair--who can be counted among the ...

Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell: Accelerated Projection

Read "Accelerated Projection" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
February 14, 2018

The level of musicianship exhibited on the Roscoe Mitchell-Matthew Shipp collaboration Accelerated Projection is amazing to behold. Mitchell of course co-founded the influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which gave birth to many great “free jazz" musicians. He also co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago, a group that has achieved legendary status among many of the jazz intelligentsia. Shipp, a stalwart of the New York City scene, was part of the legendary David S. Ware Quartet and ...

Live Review

Ostrava Days 2017

by Martin Longley
November 23, 2017

Ostrava Days Various Venues Ostrava Czech Republic August 24-30, 2017A newer breed of industrially-attuned tourism is evident in the city of Ostrava, in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and very close to Poland's border. One of its biggest attractions is the relatively recently retired coal mining and blast furnace complex, which unusually combined the entire digging, coking and ore-ing activities, all in the same area. Since closing down, it's now preserved as a ...

Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell: Discussions

Read "Discussions" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 20, 2017

Saxophonist, composer, supreme improviser and a seminal artist for modern times, Roscoe Mitchell's (AACM, Art Ensemble of Chicago) illimitable inventiveness shines forth on this outing that encompasses a 20-piece orchestra, bridging experimentalism and counterbalancing song forms with nouveau classical music applications. The final piece is seemingly derived from a New Orleans slang expression “Who Dat," which is a mind-bending 22-minute opus. Commencing with somber strings and crosscutting percussion patterns, James Fei's synth articulations signal impressions of nature, paralleling ...

Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side

Read "Bells for the South Side" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
July 24, 2017

Ecco un disco per ascoltatori esigenti. Un lavoro che ripaga con generosità l'impegno di un ascolto vigile, informato, empatico. Roscoe Mitchell è tra i musicisti di oggi che hanno saputo costruire la propria arte con incorruttibile determinazione e coerenza. Bells for the South Side ne rappresenta un capitolo importante, che racchiude una prodigiosa sintesi e nel contempo rappresenta un affondo formidabile. La cosa che immediatamente risalta, è la precisione e la focalizzazione di tutta la musica, che si dipana in ...