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David Haney: Stix and Stones (Piano and Drum Duets)

Read "Stix and Stones (Piano and Drum Duets)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il sessantenne pianista californiano David Haney raccoglie in questo album fresco di stampa una serie di duetti unicamente con batteristi, per l'esattezza cinque, riunendo incisioni realizzate fra il 2003 e il 2014 in Belgio, Canada e ovviamente Stati Uniti. Di quasi tutto il materiale, il pianista è anche autore o coautore (di regola col batterista di turno, quindi in più che probabili duetti del tutto improvvisati), con due brani ("Pretty Prancing Woman" e “House Party Starting"), invece, provenienti dal songbook ...

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Primitive Arkestra: Dolphy’s Hat

Read "Dolphy’s Hat" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il rimando a due iconoclasti DOC quali Eric Dolphy e Sun Ra già ci avvicina al cuore di questo album (in realtà c'è anche Nino--ribattezzato Nina--Rota), la cui natura parrebbe squisitamente orchestrale (e non di rado le sonorità, e lo stesso impianto, procedono in tal senso), mentre gli undici pezzi che vi sono raccolti (registrati nell'arco di un quinquennio, dal 2008 al 2013) coinvolgono sì una trentina di elementi, però scissi in organici che svariano per lo più dal sestetto ...

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David Haney: Day for Night at Jackstraw

Read "Day for Night at Jackstraw" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


David Haney ha diviso la sua carriera artistica tra l'attività di compositore per organici e situazioni di varia natura (musiche liturgiche, per balletti o per film) e quella di pianista in formazioni di ricerca, spesso con esponenti del free storico come Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille e John Tchicai. Questo disco raccoglie due session effettuate in tempi diversi e con differenti organici, accomunati dallo stesso studio d'incisione di Seattle, che è poi quello citato nel titolo. I primi tre brani sono ...

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David Haney: Blue Flint Girl and Live from Yoshi's

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David Haney TrioBlue Flint GirlCIMP2009 The David Haney CollectiveLive from Yoshi'sCadence Jazz Records2009 The center of the jazz world is still considered to be Gotham, even though one can pretty much do whatever one wants musically in any location (witness the recent relocation of Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten to Austin, Texas). The West ...

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David Haney Trio: Blue Flint Girl

Read "Blue Flint Girl" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Pianist David Haney pulls together a trio with two bassists--Michael Bisio and Adam Lane--on Blue Flint Girl. Not only does this unusual instrumentation peak curiosity, but it also leads to an uncommon sound. The beauty of recording for CIMP is that the music grows like a flower. The seeds are planted before the music starts and then it just goes. The water pours from the imaginations of the musicians. In the liner notes, Haney describes Blue Flint Girl as the ...

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David Haney / Andrew Cyrille: Clandestine and Conspiracy A Go Go

Read "David Haney / Andrew Cyrille: Clandestine and Conspiracy A Go Go" reviewed by John Sharpe


Perhaps because the piano can be a percussive instrument, piano/drum duets don't have a huge list of practitioners, with the honorable exception of Cecil Taylor. There's a Taylor link on these two recordings by Washington-based pianist David Haney and master drummer Andrew Cyrille, who had a 10-year tenure with Taylor from 1965. Haney is a percussive player, but he's not a Taylor clone. He shows more affinity with the obliqueness of early 1980s Andrew Hill, or more latterly Matthew Shipp, ...

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David Haney: Blues Royale and Ota Benga of the Batwa

Read "David Haney: Blues Royale and Ota Benga of the Batwa" reviewed by Elliott Simon


David Haney Trio Blues Royale CIMP 2007 David Haney & Julian Priester Ota Benga of the Batwa CIMP 2007 Pianist David Haney first came to the attention of the creative improvised music crowd through collaborations with trombonist Julian Priester. In addition to a variety of well-honed skills and fertile imagination, Haney's classical training ...


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