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Roscoe Mitchell: Three Compositions

Read "Three Compositions" reviewed by John Sharpe


On Three Compositions, veteran Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's scores are interpreted by an established grouping with an AACM lineage, namesake flautist Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, unlike his previous album of written material, Numbers (Rogue Art, 2011), which featured a varied cast of contemporary players. It makes all the difference. This performance was one of three by the flautist's band at the 2009 edition of Sardinia's Sant' Anna Arresi jazz festival, and is captured here in sparkling clarity. Mitchell's subtle ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Numbers

Read "Numbers" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La carriera solista di Roscoe Mitchell senza l'Art Ensemble è stata prolifica sin dal 1966, quando esordì con l'album Sound. Proprio quel titolo sembra indicativo di un aspetto centrale nella storia di questo musicista complesso da decifrare: lo studio del suono e del sassofono indagato nelle sue molteplici possibilità. Una sorta di rovescio della stessa medaglia, e della stessa personalità, sembra essere l'attività di compositore, ancora più che di sassofonista e di ricercatore del suono, a cui Mitchell si è ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Numbers

Read "Numbers" reviewed by John Sharpe


What's the difference between composition and improvisation once the music has been committed to disc? At that point even the wildest flights of fancy become fixed and immutable, able to be reheated and pored over at leisure. One difference may lie in the notation-defying musical characteristics integral to the finest improvisations: continual variation of tone and timbre and a high degree of rhythmic complexity. This distinction could apply to expositions by reeds or strings, but it becomes less pertinent for ...

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Live Review

Roscoe Mitchell: London, England, March 9, 2012

Read "Roscoe Mitchell: London, England, March 9, 2012" reviewed by John Sharpe


Roscoe MitchellCafé OtoLondonMarch 9, 2012 Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell followed an increasingly well trod path. Dalston's Cafe Oto has a strong track record in bringing great names from the free jazz past to the north London stage, with previous guest artists including trumpeters Wadada Leo Smith and Ted Daniel, and saxophonists Joe McPhee, John Tchicai, Sonny Simmons and Arthur Doyle. Now added to that illustrious roster was a two-day residency for the reedman and ...

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Mike Reed's Loose Empathy feat. Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts

Read "Empathetic Parts" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Mike Reed, insieme a Rob Mazurek, rappresenta oggi uno dei nomi di riferimento della new wave chicagoana, scena collegata a filo doppio con la storica AACM che, della musica moderna, è una delle perle artistiche più luminose ed interessanti. Il trentaseienne batterista, pianista e compositore americano (benché nato in Germania) ha ben chiara in mente la possibilità della transizione - attraverso una corretta rielaborazione critica - che partendo dalla tradizione creativa dei “padri fondatori" di un suono che ha enormemente ...

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Roscoe Mitchell and The Note Factory: Far Side

Read "Far Side" reviewed by Charles Walker


In his recent book about the AACM, A Power Stronger Than Itself (University of Chicago, 2007), trombonist/composer/critic George Lewis makes a serious, thoroughly researched argument for its members creating their own lineage of American “experimental music," influenced as much by pan-African musics or juke joint jam sessions as by European high art music, and yet beholden to none of those idioms exclusively. As a result, for the critic or historian, it has always been difficult to even know how to ...

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Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Far Side

Read "Far Side" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


A settant'anni Roscoe Mitchell continua a essere una delle figure più originali della scena afroamericana e i suoi lavori per organico allargato lontani dall'Art Ensemble ne confermano tutta la geniale condotta espressiva: è certamente il caso della Note Factory, ottetto di coppie imperfette [a due batterie, due contrabbassi e due pianoforti si affiancano infatti le ance del leader e la tromba di Corey Wilkes] che troviamo qui in una registrazione dal vivo in Germania nel 2007. [Piccola parentesi: che con ...


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