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Stefano Merighi - Direttore Artistico del Centro D'Arte Padova

Read "Stefano Merighi - Direttore Artistico del Centro D'Arte Padova" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


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 ...

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Roscoe Mitchell / Matthew Shipp: Accelerated Projection

Read "Accelerated Projection" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Accelerated Projection

Read "Accelerated Projection" reviewed by Don Phipps


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 ...

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Live Review

Ostrava Days 2017

Read "Ostrava Days 2017" reviewed by Martin Longley


Ostrava Days Various Venues Ostrava Czech Republic August 24-30, 2017 A 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, ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Discussions

Read "Discussions" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


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


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 ...

Live Review

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

Read "Roscoe Mitchell Sextet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Roscoe Mitchell Sextet plays Coltrane Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 29.01.2017 Il “Roscoe Mitchell Sextet plays Coltrane" è un progetto ideato da Aperitivo in Concerto per celebrare la figura di John Coltrane nel cinquantesimo anniversario della morte. Dubbi e sospetti si insinuano tra i fans incalliti del leggendario sassofonista di Hamlet, poco disposti ad accogliere con benevolenza operazioni di questo genere, dubbi e sospetti destinati a sciogliersi come neve al sole visto ...


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