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Tigran Hamasysan, Hiromi, Morton Schanz, Otmar Ruiz and more
by Len Davis
Today's program features keyboard and piano players including Hiromi, Tigran Hamasyan, Morton Schhanz, Erik Escobar, Chick Corea, Jan Hammer and Santiago Bosch. Playlist Tigran Hamasysan “Levitation 21" from The Call Within (Nonesuch) 00:00 Hiromi's Sonic Bloom “Time Control or Controlled by Time" from Time Control (Telarc) 06:30 Morton Schanz “Martial Arts" from Godspeed (Edition) 13:23 Otmaro Ruiz-Jimmy Branly-Jimmy Haslip"Surreptitious Moves" from Elemental (Blue Canoe) 20:12 {Erik Escobar “Paradoxo" from Erik Escobar (Self Produced) 26:53 Third Rail"Highway 86" from ...
Continue ReadingGent Jazz 2021
by Martin Longley
Gent Jazz Bijloke, Gent Belgium July 12-18 2021 Last year, the Gent Jazz festival operated with a 400-person audience capacity, and presented a very successful 10-day season, albeit highlighting Belgian acts, and with no lumbering large-fee, big-ticket-sales American bands allowed. The 2021 edition still wasn't able to manifest as its customarily colossal self, but at least the maximum customer numbers were quadrupled on the previous year, and several artists arrived ...
Continue ReadingNenad Georgievski's Best Releases of 2020
by Nenad Georgievski
2020 was a difficult year with many obstacles to overcome and with many high and low amplitudes. As a result, it was a year when naturally ambient, classical, and neo-classical music took over and provided greater joy than any other genre. Even the jazz records I preferred had plenty of quiet moments. The upbeat stuff was most often reserved for driving. Music and arts were always key to how we connect with the world. During this year, as the coronavirus ...
Continue ReadingTigran Hamasyan: The Call Within
by Chris M. Slawecki
Tigran Hamasyan had already demonstrated that he's an excellent pianist: He won the Montreux Jazz Festival's piano competition in 2003. He was only seventeen when he released his first recording (World Passion, Nocturn) in 2005 and then he claimed top prize the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition the year after that. Hamasyan's Nonesuch Records debut Mockroot (2015), won the Echo Jazz Award for International Piano Instrumentalist of the Year. But The Call Within also illustrates Hamasyan's remarkable ...
Continue ReadingTigran Hamasyan: Music and Arts Have a Purpose to Elevate People Spiritually
by Nenad Georgievski
Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan is a composer who has built his career on defying expectations, taking chances, exploring and pushing the boundaries between genres and geographies. His albums serve as a testament to his diverse musical tastes where any combination of musical possibilities can emerge. In a sense, he has managed to find a way to make all of these sounds and influences work seamlessly and imaginatively, resulting in series of groundbreaking albums. Each of these records has its own ...
Continue ReadingTigran Hamasyan: Atmosphères
by David Bruggink
A cross-cultural collaboration between Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, guitarist Eivind Aarset, sound manipulator Jan Bang, and Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan, Atmosphères seems to be a quintessential ECM release in certain ways. It exhibits qualities that come readily to mind when imagining the ECM aesthetic: sonic minimalism, musical gestures with exquisite subtleness and thrilling, sometimes discordant, experimentation. Henriksen, Aarset and Bang have joined in various configurations on previous releases, such as Henriksen's Cartography (ECM, 2008) and Places of Worship ...
Continue ReadingTigran Hamasyan and lots of new releases
by Bob Osborne
On this edition of World of Jazz a packed show with new releases. After a series of highly successful and praised albums, Verneri Pohjola presents his fourth release on Edition Records, which incorporates influences of his last three sessions into one defined and beautifully crafted collection. With an exclusive release on Bandcamp, William Parker gives us a preview of his forthcoming 10 CD and Album Box Set, all new productions/compositions created with a beautifully wide range ...
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