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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz: Birdies For Lulu

Read "Birdies For Lulu" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman are a dynamic duo within the neoteric strategies of modern jazz, coupled with their substantial artistic output. They intersperse classical inferences with shades of folk, avant-garde schemas, and bristling improvisational segments into the big picture. This incarnation of the quartet now features upper-echelon session bassist Scott Colley and venerable drummer Billy Mintz. Essentially, the artists enrich the avant-classical genre by cultivating an undertow framed on swing, bop and concise opuses tinted with the ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman: Live at Theatre Vidy-Lausanne

Read "Live at Theatre Vidy-Lausanne" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Oggi, su questo pianeta, ci sono pochissimi altri duo pianoforte-violino che abbiano l'incredibile intensità, vibrante energia, identica immaginazione creativa, toccante lirismo e capacità di quello formato da Sylvie Courvoisier e Mark Feldman. Di per sé, al di fuori delle classiche ambientazioni proposte dalla musica “seria" (come qualche signorotto da conservatorio continua a voler distinguere), il duo pianoforte-violino non è figurazione facile. Molte volte - anche jazzisticamente parlando - non si tratta “solo" di interplay, bensì di indescrivibile magmatico movimento in ...

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Mark Feldman - Sylvie Courvoisier: To Fly to Steal

Read "To Fly to Steal" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Si può essere troppo bravi? Sotto le spoglie di una domanda all'apparenza sciocca si nasconde un'annosa questione. Il virtuosismo come zavorra: da risorsa a limite, da mezzo a fine. Chitarristi che sfrecciano alla velocità della luce senza avere uno straccio di idea. Tastieristi da competizione per musica da circo. Non c'è peggior razza degli inutili virtuosi. Che c'entra Mark Feldman con la stirpe dei logorroici? Purtroppo c'entra, eccome. È già da qualche anno che i conti non tornano con il ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal

Read "To Fly To Steal" reviewed by Nic Jones


Between the membership of this quartet (Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Thomas Morgan, and Gerry Hemingway) embodies the twenty-first century improvising musician. All four members have recorded before and in a variety of situations of wide diversity. They bring all of the experience this implies to a program that stakes out its own territory, and from start to end, has set out a potent collective manifesto.

Drummer Gerry Hemingway has worked with Anthony Braxton's quartet in the past and it's clear ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal

Read "To Fly To Steal" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Violinist Mark Feldman and his wife, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier eloquently morph restraint, depth and a contemporary classical touch into the progressive-jazz idiom on this 2010 release. Respectively, the musicians are ceaselessly engaged within the new music style of jazz and improvisation, having recorded for several record labels, spanning several years. No doubt, the duo's venerable artistic propensities unravel in resplendent fashion on To Fly To Steal.

The quartet manifests a self-identity during these emotively imbued works, designed with ...

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Vincent Courtois - Sylvie Courvoisier - Ellery Eskelin: As Soon as Possible

Read "As Soon as Possible" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Se si dovesse pensare ad una nuova Third Stream contemporanea As Soon as Possible, pur non costituendone un tassello imprescindibile, ne farebbe parte in pieno. In effetti il tentativo di coniugare la musica euro-colta con la creatività jazzistica sembra essere uno dei tratti distintivi di questo lavoro del tutto improvvisato. I due punti di partenza dell'incontro sono la voce di Eskelin, il cui fraseggio talvolta (nell'arcano solo della seconda traccia) è apparentabile addirittura a Liebman, e il vigore post-epressionista della ...

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Anker / Courvoisier / Mori: Alien Huddle

Read "Alien Huddle" reviewed by Nic Jones


There is something palpably happening in this program of improvisation which lends it distinction. In this trio of reeds, piano, and electronics it's not by any means the latter that is what might be called the rogue element. Instead the coalescence of the music as well as its frenetic moments provide its considerable substance. There's no doubt that this is music happening in real time, but the means by which it reaches that status are veiled, enticing in their very ...


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