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Instrument: Saxophone
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by Troy Dostert
Rocco John Iacovone has been an under-sung presence in the New York avant-garde scene for some time. Despite several recordings to his name, he's yet to get much big-time recognition. But with this live recording by his octet, the Improvisational Composers Ensemble, that could change. The December 2014 performance at John Zorn's club, the Stone had been arranged as part of a week-long residency curated by Will Connell, another under-acknowledged performer who in the 1960s was involved with Horace Tapscott's ...
read moreThe Rocco John Group: Devotion
by AAJ Italy Staff
La devozione cui si fa riferimento nel titolo dell'album è quella che Rocco John Iacovone nutre nei confronti dei grandi maestri della storia del jazz (e della musica in generale). Qualcuno citato esplicitamente nei titoli dei brani (Dolphy, Bach, Parker). Altri rievocati per assonanza (Cy-cology, basata sugli accordi di “All of Me"). Altri ancora, più poeticamente, per associazione emotiva (la “Freedom" degli anni '60-'70, la “Devotion" della fase spirituale di John Coltrane). Riferimenti estetici ben precisi, che come nella migliore ...
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