Jazz Articles about Sergio Merce

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Sergio Merce: Microtonal Saxophone

Read "Microtonal Saxophone" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
March 21, 2014

Microtonal Saxophone is the latest in an impressive lineage of innovative and experimental saxophone recordings released by Potlatch. It follows in the footsteps of such groundbreaking albums as Bertrand Denzler's Tenor (2010), the free sax quartet Propagations (2007) and Stéphane Rives's Fibres (2003), among others. Unlike such players, who redefined what could be played on a saxophone or the ways the instrument could be played, Argentine saxophonist Sergio Merce has gone a stage further by radically altering the instrument itself. ...

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Lucio Capece - Sergio Merce: Casa

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 14, 2009

Il nome dell'argentino Lucio Capece sta diventando sempre più conosciuto e apprezzato nell'ambito della sperimentazione sonora e si tratta certamente di un'attenzione meritata, per la capacità che l'artista sta dimostrando - pur in un ambito molto peculiare, che richiede fruizione attenta e preparata - di mettere in gioco idee e sinergie creative. Residente a Berlino dal 2004, si è fatto apprezzare ultimamente in compagnia di artisti quali Toshimaru Nakamura o Mika Vainio [PanSonic] e alterna gli strumenti a ancia - ...