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Zu: Carboniferous

Read "Carboniferous" reviewed by Troy Collins


In the past decade, the Rome-based power trio Zu has grown into a truly fearsome beast. Kindred spirits with extreme noise merchants like the Flying Luttenbachers, Last Exit, Lightning Bolt and Painkiller, baritone saxophonist Luca T. Mai, electric bassist Massimo Pupillo and drummer Jacopo Battaglia channel riotous improvisational freedom into a tireless DIY punk rock aesthetic that champions collaboration above insular development.

Making their high profile debut on vocalist Mike Patton's Ipecac Records, Carboniferous is the trio's fifteenth ...

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Zu & Nobukazu Takemura: Identification With The Enemy: A Key To The Underworld

Read "Identification With The Enemy: A Key To The Underworld" reviewed by Troy Collins


The Italian power trio Zu has made quite a career out of high-profile guest artist collaborations. Joint albums with Eugene Chadbourne, Ken Vandermark, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mats Gustafsson have bolstered the group's impressive discography in the past few years. Identification With The Enemy is a different sort of meeting for the flexible trio, which joins forces this time with Japanese electronica artist Nobukazu Takemura.

One of the first club DJs to introduce hip-hop to Japan in the mid-1980s, ...

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Zu with Mats Gustafsson: How To Raise An Ox

Read "How To Raise An Ox" reviewed by Troy Collins


Hailing from Rome, the free jazz power trio Zu has been making considerable waves in the indie underground. With a resume boasting numerous tours and collaborative recording sessions with Eugene Chadbourne, Dälek, The Ex, Nomeansno and Ken Vandermark, the members of Zu have proven themselves capable of holding their own against the underground's heaviest contenders, regardless of genre. The group's most recent endeavor, How To Raise an Ox, also features a guest improviser, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson.

Heavily amplified ...

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Zu: Igneo

Read "Igneo" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Upon their first tour of the United States this power packed Italian band sojourned into a Chicago studio to record with saxophonist Ken Vandermark and trombonist Jeb Bishop. While modern jazz cellist Fred Lomberg-Holm adds another dimension to this quartet’s high octane melding of progressive rock, free jazz and more. The band’s previous two releases featured avant-guitarist Eugene Chadbourne amid a tour of Europe, yet this outing perhaps summarizes what the quartet is all about!

The group ...

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Album Review

ZU + Eugene Chadbourne: Motorhellington

Read "Motorhellington" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


On this new release we are once again treated to the collaboration of American guitarist, humorist and steadfast improviser, Eugene Chadbourne with the dynamic hard hitting Italian modern jazz quartet known as “Zu”. For their second effort, wittily titled Motorhellington, this quintet now sees good reason to parody leather clad heavy metal warriors; “Black Sabbath” and “Motorhead” along with pieces by Jobim, Mingus and others. Essentially, “ZU” pursues somewhat of an unlikely track mix, as the liners indicate that the ...

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Zu: Bromio

Read "Bromio" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Released in 1999, prior to their – superfine - outing featuring American avant-garde guitarist Eugene Chadbourne titled, Th Zu Side Of The Chadbourne (see May ‘2000 AAJ reviews), Bromio presents a clear snapshot of this exhilarating and thoroughly hard-core modern-jazz quartet. Based in Italy, “Zu” have become a notoriously eye-popping, hair-raising band who have been thrilling audiences throughout Europe and thanks to word-of-mouth and extensive touring abroad, the band is presently enjoying an elevated degree of popularity.

With Bromio, the ...

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Zu & Eugene Chadbourne: The Zu Side Of The Chadbourne

Read "The Zu Side Of The Chadbourne" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


You know you’re in for a major surprise when the CD artwork displays guitarist/composer and sometimes humorist, Dr. Eugene Chadbourne dressed up in garb that might insinuate he was some hierarchical luminary of the Catholic Church. - Along with snippets and graphics that contain religious overtones, the Italian band who go by the moniker of “Zu”, featuring guitarist Eugene Chadbourne have assembled a bold, adventurous and somewhat intimidating affair, titled The Zu Side Of The Chadbourne.

“Zu” is: Roy Paci; ...

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Recording

Brazilian Classics Performed By Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos—New Album Curated By Zuza Homem De Mello

Brazilian Classics Performed By Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos—New Album Curated By Zuza Homem De Mello

Source: Michael Ricci

Album will be released simultaneously in Portugal and Brazil Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is about to release a new album, Músicas Brasileiras, Músicos Portugueses, curated by Zuza Homem de Mello and arranged by some of the most important contemporary Brazilian composers, with Kiko Freitas (drums), Gabi Guedes (percussion ), and with the Portuguese big band directed by Pedro Guedes. Músicas Brasileiras, Músicos Portugueses will be released on March 28th, in Portugal (CARA) and Brazil simultaneously, by the renowned label Biscoito ...

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Recording

New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen

New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen

Source: Lars Hannibal

Ever since it quietly emerged on the international scene in the late ‘60s, Scandinavian jazz carved out for itself a distinctive niche. Drawing on the influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Scandinavian jazz embraced a free, spacious, experimental, and contemplative aesthetic. It has also been open to modern or contemporary classical music and collaborations with European folk and ethnic-musicians. This is not OUR Recordings first journey into Scandinavian Jazz; the critically acclaimed album Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, ...

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Performance / Tour

Vocalist Zuri Alexander At Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles On October 22, 2023

Vocalist Zuri Alexander At Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles On October 22, 2023

Source: Audrey Kelley

Prepare to be entranced by an afternoon of unique melodies and timeless jazz classics as Jazz Vocalist Zuri Alexander graces the stage for a captivating concert experience accompanied by Hiro Morozumi on piano, Jeff Littleton on bass and Jimmy Ford on drums. The event will open with the deep, rich, smooth-as-silk voice of internationally known Latin jazz vocalist, Nora Paradiso, who will set the stage for an unforgettable musical journey. Event Zuri Alexander in Concert Date Sunday, October 22, 2023 ...

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Event

Month-long Venezuelan Jazz Piano Series Celebrates Indigenous Resistance Day At Zinc Jazz Club In New York City

Month-long Venezuelan Jazz Piano Series Celebrates Indigenous Resistance Day At Zinc Jazz Club In New York City

Source: Charles Carlini Presents

Zinc Jazz Club is thrilled to announce a month-long celebration of Venezuelan Jazz Piano in honor of Venezuela’s Indigenous Resistance Day, produced by Charles Carlini of Charles Carlini Presents. The series will feature an incredible lineup of world-renowned pianists, showcasing the rich musical heritage of Venezuela and its contribution to the global jazz scene. Taking place every Tuesday throughout the month of October, this unique series promises to transport audiences to the vibrant streets of Venezuela, blending traditional rhythms with ...

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Recording

'String Rise Azure Traces,' Is The New Album, Of Original Work, From Wales Based Composer And Pianist Simon Deeley

'String Rise Azure Traces,' Is The New Album, Of Original Work, From Wales Based Composer And Pianist Simon Deeley

Source: Simon Deeley

String Rise Azure Traces is, now, the fifth release to come from the Wales, UK based composer and pianist Simon Deeley. As with his earlier albums, all the music, on this current album, is original, all being penned by the composer. Rather than an over-arching theme the album has a hint of an immediately recognisable style. An infusion of Latin flavour threads through the album; with the Samba groove of “So, Fly Azure Acrobat," and the gentle, easy, slow Latin ...

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Event

Keys To Venezuela: Klavierhaus Shines The Spotlight On Venezuelan Jazz Pianists In July

Keys To Venezuela: Klavierhaus Shines The Spotlight On Venezuelan Jazz Pianists In July

Source: Charles Carlini Presents

In celebration of Venezuela's Independence Day on July 5, Klavierhaus, New York City's premier fine piano showroom located at 790 11th Avenue at 54th Street, New York, NY 10019, is hosting a series of Venezuelan Jazz Piano performances throughout July. Produced by Jim Luce and Charles Carlini, the series will feature three of the finest Venezuelan pianists in New York City. The performances will begin on July 12 with Cesar Orozco, followed by Silvano Monasterios on July 19 and Benito ...

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Recording

Oscar Peterson: Live in Zurich, 1971

Oscar Peterson: Live in Zurich, 1971

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Pianist Oscar Peterson had some year in 1971. He recorded Oscar Peterson in London (in March), In Tune with the Singers Unlimited (in July), Reunion Blues with the Milt Jackson Quartet (in July), In Concert (in July) and Great Connection (in October). What all of these albums have in common is they were recorded in Europe. Now we can add a sixth—On a Clear Day: Live in Zurich 1971 (Mack Avenue)—recorded on November 24, 1971 at Zurich's Kongresshaus, a complex ...

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Recording

Lebanese Pianist Tarek Yamani Drops Electro-Arabic-Jazz Mash-Up Single In Tribute To Buzuq Maestro Matar Muhammad

Lebanese Pianist Tarek Yamani Drops Electro-Arabic-Jazz Mash-Up Single In Tribute To Buzuq Maestro Matar Muhammad

Source: All About Jazz

Tarek Yamani—a pianist who appears to have made it his life's work to figure out just how far Arabic musical traditions can be thrust into the American jazz idiom—has unleashed perhaps his most audacious project yet. Typically an acoustic player most often fronting a trio, Yamani makes a brave about face with “King Matar," a quarter-tonal jazz/electro tribute to the virtuoso Lebanese/Syrian buzuq player Matar Muhammad (1939-1995), who lived most of his life in the pianist's homeland, Lebanon. The result ...

Video / DVD

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Improvising trio Kuzu set for St. Louis debut

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Improvising trio Kuzu set for St. Louis debut

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the musicians in Kuzu, an improvising trio who will be coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Wednesday, March 11 at Joe's Cafe. Saxophonist Dave Rempis, guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Tyler Damon all are veterans of the improvised music scene, with Rempis and Damon based in Chicago and Dorji living in Asheville, NC. They formed Kuzu in the fall of 2017, ...

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Festival

Rob Mazurek's Desert Encrypts, a 3-Day creative music and visual art event scheduled for July 26-28th in Marfa, TX

Rob Mazurek's Desert Encrypts, a 3-Day creative music and visual art event scheduled for July 26-28th in Marfa, TX

Source: All About Jazz

Marfa Book Company presents Desert Encrypts, a three-day creative music and visual art event organized by multidisciplinary artist Rob Mazurek and Marfa Book Company’s Tim Johnson. In its second year, Desert Encrypts brings four internationally acclaimed artists together in Marfa, TX from July 26-28, 2019 for a series of performances and exhibitions. This year's quartet includes Berlin-based visual artist and filmmaker, Rosa Barba; percussionist, Chad Taylor; electronic music composer and sound artist, Jan St. Werner, and musician, composer, and visual ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Goodnight,...

Unknown label
2014

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Carboniferous

Ipecac Recordings
2009

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Identification With...

Atavistic Records
2007

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雷乃発声 Rai...

Unknown label
2006

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