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David Sanford Big Band feat. Hugh Ragin: A Prayer for Lester Bowie
by Angelo Leonardi
La variopinta composizione di Hugh Ragin dedicata a Lester Bowie dà il titolo al nuovo album di David Sanford ma non ne esaurisce gli intenti. Il premiato compositore, bandleader e didatta di Pittsburgh aggiunge infatti sette suoi nuovi brani, confermando fantasiosa padronanza del disegno orchestrale in equilibrio tra linguaggio contemporaneo e tradizione. I brani del disco sono stati incisi nel 2016 e vedono la luce solo ora grazie all'etichetta Greenleaf di Dave Douglas. L'incisione è stata effettuata ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
On the surface, the late Olivier Messiaen was no lover of jazz. When the topic came up in an interview that he gave in the mid '80s, he was quick to say that jazz, as a style, was something of a stylistic “robber" or borrower rather than an innovator, and that he'd “never been fond of jazz." So what would he think of Sacred Feast, a program of Messiaen-inspired pieces from multifaceted trumpeter Thomas Bergeron? That's hard to say, especially ...
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