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Trish Clowes: And In The Night-Time She Is There
by Bruce Lindsay
Shortly after the release of And In The Night-Time She Is There, her second album, saxophonist Trish Clowes became a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, an honor that goes to the most talented young musicians from the worlds of classical and jazz music. Clowes is a worthy recipient, not least because she crosses the increasingly blurred line between the genres, as a player and composer, with a maturity of thought and a breadth of imagination that belies her relative ...
Continue ReadingTrish Clowes: From Shorter, Lovano and the Sphinx
by Bruce Lindsay
There doesn't seem to be an award for the best album title of the year anywhere in the wide world of jazz, but if there was then And In The Night-Time She Is There (Basho Records) would surely be a contender for 2012. The romantic and mysterious title belongs to the second album from saxophonist/composer Trish Clowes. On one hand, it captures the life of the jazz performer, onstage in the hours of darkness, the focus of an audience's attention. ...
Continue ReadingTrish Clowes: Tangent
by Bruce Lindsay
Trish Clowes' Tangent is an ambitious project that brings together free improvisations, small band numbers and full-scale orchestral pieces to create a fascinating collection of new music. Projects of this scale in jazz are far from easily achieved, and the fact that this is composer, leader and tenor saxophonist Clowes' debut--recorded at the age of 25--renders her ambition, and the project's success, praiseworthy, indeed. Clowes is accompanied on Tangent by some of the brightest and most innovative ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
L'idea è di quelle giuste (anche se un poco pretenziosa trattandosi di un lavoro d'esordio): un sestetto, molto attento a cercare una propria strada bilanciando strutture tradizionali con altre tipiche dell'improvvisazione, osa maggiormente e alza il tiro cercando tangenziali di collegamento sonoro con un'orchestra di classiche peculiarità mainstream moderne. Lei, ventisei anni, esce dritta dritta da una buona scuola musicale (fra l'altro nelle note di copertina troviamo un ringraziamento quale mentore a Iain Ballamy) ma proprio la sua educazione ancora ...
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