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Save the Date - Settembre 2014
by Luca Canini
Settembre è il mese del ripensamento. In questo caso doveroso perché si chiude un agosto strano e complicato per il jazz italiano. Un agosto che ha perso per strada il festival di Sant'Anna Arresi, posticipato in blocco a data da destinarsi, e gran parte di quello di Rocella, prima rinviato a dicembre (notizia diffusa attraverso un comunicato stampa e una laconica missiva recapitata ai musicisti ingaggiati) e poi riesumato solo in parte (i giorni finali, quelli nei quali erano programmati ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine Solo al Teatro Goldoni di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Musicus Concentus Teatro Goldoni Firenze 28.5.2014 Sono passati ben tredici anni dalla pubblicazione di Solitaire e dalle prime apparizioni in Italia di Uri Caine in solo piano, ma da allora l'artista statunitense non ha mai smesso di confrontarsi con la tastiera, tanto da aver appena fatto uscire un nuovo CD in solitudine, Callithump (Winter&Winter), né di esibirsi in questa foggia. Che--a quanto ci diceva pochi istanti prima del concerto--non smette di stimolarlo ed ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine: Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
by C. Michael Bailey
What is to become of the Great American Songbook, that cultural document that served as scripture to the jazz community for the better part of the Twentieth Century? Today, what we think of as jazz has flown so far and wide that it's definition encompasses everything from Craig Taborn's Chants to Robert Glasper's Black Radio and Black Radio 2. While rightly called jazz, these examples are the keepers of no flame, rather they are the new flame burning the way ...
Continue ReadingWagner e Venezia
by C. Michael Bailey
Released in 1997, the Uri Caine Ensemble's Wagner e Venezia somehow evaded proper consideration within the electrons of All About Jazz. No more. Caine and his unique brand of interpretation has long been well-regarded at the magazine. Wagner e Venezia is one of the pinnacles among pinnacles from the pianist/composer's early output. Wagner e Venezia is Caine's third release on the Winter & Winter label and the first where he used classical music as his creative jumping-off point. The following ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine Trio: Siren
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Uri Caine holds a unique distinction, known the world over as a stellar jazz pianist, but a critics' darling for his genre-blind reworkings of classical music. His takes on the work of Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Wagner have become modern classics which straddle several musical worlds, but Caine's is no one-trick pony. When he isn't busy turning classical music history on its head, his restless artistic curiosity has taken him to a variety ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine Trio: Siren
by Troy Collins
Siren is the first studio recording to feature pianist Uri Caine leading a traditional acoustic trio since 1998's Blue Wail (Winter & Winter). Since then, most of Caine's albums have alternated between radical reinterpretations of the work of revered classical composers like Beethoven, Mozart and Schummann, and the heavily amplified funk excursions of his Bedrock trio with bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Zach Danziger. Stripped down to their basic foundations however, most of Caine's efforts typically revolve around the classic ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine Bedrock: Plastic Temptation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Plastic Temptation è un album equilibrato; nonostante tutto; nonostante le discese e le risalite (abbastanza) ardite. La musica si sfilaccia come un maglione di lana che lascia velocemente l'uomo nudo, vestito solo dalla sua pelle, incantato prima e poi sconvolto dal freddo. E' così tanto freddo, senza umore, senza aria, un brano come “Noid," funky scatenato e - come no - intriso dello spirito di Bitches Brew. E' difficile intuire se questo brano sia realmente suonato o frutto di un ...
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