Jazz Articles about Uri Caine

Uri Caine - Gust Tsilis: Pure Affection

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2007

Da una parte Uri Caine, vulcanico agitatore musicale, eminenza grigia della scena jazzistica della costa orientale statunitense da più di vent’anni, autore di spericolate incursioni nel mondo della musica classica, di collusioni più o meno spinte con il jazz elettrico, presenza fissa in festival, rassegne ed eventi culturali in Italia e in mezzo mondo. Dall’altra Gust Tsilis, misconosciuto specialista di uno strumento ostico come il vibrafono, raramente esposto in concerti ed esibizioni, ma prezioso collaboratore di musicisti come John Abercrombie, ...

Uri Caine: Moloch: The Book of Angels, Vol. 6

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 21, 2007

Come se li sarà immaginati John Zorn i suoi amati angeli sotto le dita di Uri Caine? Il rapporto stretto e indispensabile tra composizione e esecuzione nei volumi del Book of Angels, di cui questo Moloch costituisce il capitolo numero sei, ci spinge a credere che se li sia immaginati riccioluti e ironicamente sorridenti, apparentemente dimessi, ma attentissimi a ogni dettaglio, insomma che se li sia immaginati come il pianista. C'è qualcosa di obliquamente “fisico" nelle diciotto composizioni ["Rimmon" compare ...

Uri Caine Ensemble: Plays Mozart

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 16, 2007

Uri Caine prosegue il proprio personalissimo percorso di “rilettura” dei classici che, partito da Gustav Mahler, lo ha visto toccare Wagner e Schumann, Bach e Beethoven, Verdi (nel progetto Otello Syndrome presentato alla Biennale di Venezia) e, adesso, Mozart. Il salisburghese potrebbe in realtà sembrare il compositore più “nelle corde” del pianista di Philadelphia che ne condivide estrema attenzione al ritmo ed ironia, spirito iconoclasta e trasversalità. Caine torna qui al suo Ensemble (abbandonato nelle Diabelli Variations) e, un po’ ...

Uri Caine: Uri Caine Ensemble plays Mozart

by J Hunter
March 13, 2007

I'll be the first to admit that jazz's treatment of classical music has a bad rap. To my mind, it's not so much the “stuffiness of the latter genre as it is the tendency to simply take a classical composition and “make it swing. What separates Uri Caine's work from other efforts is his ability to take the music to unique, inventive places while maintaining the integrity of the original piece. For this project--which was commissioned for Mozart's 250th birthday--Caine ...

Uri Caine: Developing That Third Ear

by Celeste Sunderland
March 9, 2007

Mozart's “Piano Sonata in C Major is one of the most well-known compositions in the entire musical canon. Last month pianist Uri Caine strutted across the stage at New York City's Merkin Hall, took his seat and dove into the familiar piece with genteel precision. But quickly, under the influence of his classically trained, but jazz-infected fingers, the music turned into a hard swinging improvisation delivered with a laid-back attack and drizzled with elegance.First and foremost, says Caine, ...

Uri Caine: Plays Mozart

by C. Michael Bailey
February 20, 2007

Uri Caine is the most successful jazz artist at interpreting classical music. Jacques Loussier certainly applies his brand to such an approach, but he does so in an almost reverent, conservative manner. Caine throws the doors open and forces the old notes and time to reveal their decadent secrets.

Whether his canvases are established works, like Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Bach's Goldberg Variations, or creative recreations like Gustaf Mahler at Toblack, Wagner e Venezia, and Schumann - Love Fugue, Caine recasts ...

Uri Caine: Plays Mozart

by Troy Collins
February 7, 2007

Ten years ago pianist Uri Caine unveiled Urlicht/Primal Light (Winter & Winter, 1997), his first foray fusing electro-acoustic jazz improvisation with the structural intricacies of the Western Classical canon. Caine's take on Mahler was audaciously brilliant, and it laid the ground work for subsequent projects exploring the work of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Wagner. Plays Mozart is Caine's latest effort in this fertile milieu, as well as one of his most enjoyable.

This is a reunion of sorts: ...