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Steve Cardenas: Charlie & Paul
by Karl Ackermann
The third season of the subscription-based vinyl label Newvelle launches with a quartet led by guitarist Steve Cardenas. A Kansas City native, he cut his teeth in that city before moving to New York in the mid-1990s. Cardenas has appeared on more than fifty albums playing with Ben Allison, Jon Cowherd, Chris Cheek, Eliane Elias, Chris Potter, Donny McCaslin and many other top names, and he has four previous recordings as a leader. Cardenas was a long time member of ...
read moreCharlie Haden / Liberation Music Orchestra: Time/Life:Songs For The Whales And Other Beings
by Ian Patterson
Formed by bassist Charlie Haden in 1969 to protest America's war in Vietnam/Indochina, the Liberation Music Orchestra has reconvened roughly every ten years to record musical protest in the face of major injustices. Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings was inspired by concern at global ecological destruction, and to that end the music has a pervasive melancholy colored by the LMO's signature lyricism, and broken up by stirring collective and individual passages. The LMO's personnel has ...
read moreCharlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Time / Life
by Giuseppe Segala
Due anni dopo la scomparsa di Charlie Haden si pubblica questo ultimo documento della sua Liberation Music Orchestra, un lavoro che il compianto contrabbassista progettò ma che non ebbe modo di portare a compiuta realizzazione. Vessillo del suo impegno civile e umano, l'orchestra era nata nel 1969 raccogliendo una pletora di musicisti straordinari, molti dei quali oggi non sono più con noi: Don Cherry, Gato Barbieri, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian. L'album è forse diverso da quello che sarebbe ...
read moreSteve Cardenas: Melody in a Dream
by Angelo Leonardi
Steve Cardenas è un chitarrista meno considerato di quello che dovrebbe, nonostante il talento indiscutibile e la considerazione che gode tra i colleghi: è stato a lungo membro dell'Electric Bebop Band di Paul Motian, della Liberation Music Orchestra di Charlie Haden e collabora stabilmente con i gruppi di Joey Baron, Ben Allison e Steve Swallow. Una spiegazione sta forse nella sua limitata attività di leader, che nel ventennio in cui vive a New York lo ha visto pubblicare ...
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by Gabriel Medina Arenas
Melody in a Dream is a humble tribute to Steve Cardenas' mentors and music heroes. The Kansas City guitarist who moved to New York City in 1995 pays his respects to figures like late piano genius Thelonius Monk, avant-garde drummer Joey Baron(who is his sideman in this album), the deceased drummer Paul Motian and pianist Horace Silver. This is the fourth Cardenas solo album, who was a member of Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band for several years, as ...
read moreSteve Cardenas: West of Middle
by AAJ Italy Staff
Steve Cardenas vanta una serie infinita di collaborazioni di prestigio che vanno dalla Liberation Music Orchestra a Paul McCandless, da Joey Baron a Paul Motian, ma come leader è solo alla terza pubblicazione [l'ultima Panoramic del 2004]. Vive e opera nella comunità jazz di New York ma in questo West of Middle sono le radici della sua Kansas City ad emergere. Lo affiancano due grandi musicisti come il talentuoso Rudy Royston alla batteria e l'ormai affermato contrabbassista Ben Allison, nella ...
read moreSteve Cardenas: From K.C. to N.Y.C.
by Matthew Warnock
Kansas City has had a long and storied place in jazz history. From Count Basie, to Charlie Parker and Lester Young, some of the best and brightest in the genre have either been raised or cut their teeth in K.C. While there seems to be an historical tinge to the city whenever its contribution to jazz is concerned, the Paris of the Plains still produces many top-notch instrumentalist and vocalists from its clubs, high schools and universities. With such a ...
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