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Very Much Alive
by John Kelman
[NOTE]: This review is being republished as a celebration of just one aspect of the life of drummer Paolo Vinaccia, who passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on July 5, 2019. Best-known in Norway, where he emigrated from Italy in 1979, enjoying a busy career with artists including Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal, Mike Mainieri, Bendik Hofseth, Bugge Wesseltoft and Palle Mikkelborg, amongst many others. Vinaccia's big heart and warm concern for others made him everybody's best friend, and ...
Continue ReadingTerje Rypdal: Crime Scene
by Ian Patterson
Such is the strength of the ECM aesthetic--visually as well as musically--that it's one of very few record labels in the history of jazz that is referred to describe a person's musical tastes. The northern European jazz sound which Manfred Eicher has made synonymous with his fabled label--cool, spacious, pastoral--colors the majority of ECM releases, so it's something of a surprise to be confronted by guitarist Terje Rypdal rocking out, backed by the seventeen-piece Bergen Big Band, crashing drums, swirling ...
Continue ReadingTerje Rypdal: Crime Scene
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che bella sorpresa. A differenza del solito prodotto ECM dal suono immacolato e dalle atmosfere rarefatte, questo Crime Scene irrompe con il suo miscuglio di free jazz, rock & roll, funky, drum & bass, musica orchestrale e orizzonti nordici. La voce profonda di Clint Eastwood ci introduce ad una immaginaria colonna sonora nella quale le atmosfere notturne la fanno da padrone, sporcate da frammenti di dialoghi tratti da film quali “Il Padrino" e “Taxi Driver" e da musicisti che sembrano ...
Continue ReadingTerje Rypdal: Crime Scene
by Karl Ackermann
Norwegian guitarist and ECM principal, Terje Rypdal has defied narrow and expedient labels throughout his long career. Originally a rocker, he joined Jan Garbarek's quartet (and ECM) in 1969. In the course of his career, he has composed a number of symphonies, two operas, a violin concerto and many modern works that, as often as not, elude genre definitions. Rypdal's quantity and quality of jazz and free jazz compositions may skew his profile toward jazz, but his versatility and the ...
Continue ReadingKetil Bjørnstad - Terje Rypdal: Live in Leipzig
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo disco riassume il percorso avviato da Ketil Bjørnstad e Terje Rypdal nel 1995, quando, assieme al violoncellista David Darling e al batterista Jon Christensen, diedero vita a The Sea, formazione tra le più rappresentative delle sonorità scandinave ECM. Negli anni, il quartetto di origine ha dato vita a dischi e progetti con formazioni ridotte o allargate aventi un nucleo comune. Due icone della scena norvegese dal background profondamente diverso, classica la formazione di Bjørnstad e rock quella di Rypdal, ...
Continue ReadingTerje Rypdal: Vossabrygg
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista norvegese Terje Rypdal è certamente uno degli artisti più longevi sulla scena della musica creativa, con una lunga militanza iniziata nei primissimi anni sessanta nel paese natale, con il gruppo The Vanguards. Un progetto di successo modellato su gruppi inglesi e americani coevi come gli Shadows e i Ventures, cavalieri di quel rock strumentale ingenuo e disimpegnato che anticipò l'arrivo di Jimi Hendrix. Quest'ultimo, nel suo incedere devastante, andò spesso in tour nei paesi scandinavi fra il 1967 ...
Continue ReadingTerje Rypdal: In A Miles Mood
by R.J. DeLuke
Norwegian guitar icon Terje Rypdal surfaced more than three decades ago as a new guitar voice, but he strode out of the fields of rock music, not jazz. He was influenced a great deal by the electronic jazz/fusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s and his early work with the likes of saxophonist Jan Garbarek and renowned composer George Russell brought him to the eye of American listeners, through the ECM label with which he has been affiliated since ...
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