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Ruth Goller: Skyllumina
by Chris May
The Italian-born, British-based bassist and composer Ruth Goller has been rattling jazz's cage since 2007, the year she joined Acoustic Ladyland. The band was in the vanguard of what became known as “jazz punk," although its sound was closer to metal than classic punk, and the lineup included tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and drummer Sebastian Rochford. Four years later, Acoustic Ladyland disbanded and Goller and Wareham morphed into Melt Yourself Down, where they were joined by tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings ...
read moreRoamer: Lost Bees
by Ian Patterson
Roamer is vocalist Lauren Kinsella, drummer Matthew Jacobson, bassist/guitarist Simon Jermyn and saxophonist/flautist Matthew Halpin—four of Ireland's most lauded creative musicians. Formed in 2016, the quartet's activities have been frustratingly intermittent in the interim, though it is hardly surprising given that its members are based in London, Cologne, Berlin and Dublin. One early highlight came in 2017, when Roamer collaborated with Irish poet Cherry Smyth in an Arts Council-funded project at Bray Jazz Festival. That project has evolved to the ...
read moreTake Five UK 2015
by Ian Patterson
Take Five UK Edition X Bore Place Kent, England February 9 -14, 2015 Nestled in the heart of the Kent countryside is Bore Place, an organic farm that dates to the seventeenth century. Here, the mobile phone signal is unreliable and internet connection is dickey at best. The only sound is the tenor and baritone lowing of cows. It's the perfect place to plonk eight young jazz/improvising musicians for a week. The ...
read moreDown With Jazz 2014
by Ian Patterson
Down With Jazz Meeting House Square jny: Dublin, Ireland May 31-June 1, 2014 There's nothing quite like a Bank Holiday weekend, sunshine and music. Having moved from 2013's September slot with its unpredictable autumn weather to the last weekend in May with its unpredictable spring weather, Down With Jazz 2014 passed off dryly, which raised the spirits and surely contributed to the dancing that broke out sporadically. It was the combination of spirits--of ...
read moreThought-Fox: My Guess
by AAJ Italy Staff
La scommessa per una vocalist moderna è sempre la stessa. Riuscire a imporsi all'attenzione di pubblico e critica con un bagaglio tecnico ed espressivo che possa colpire. Per riuscirci sono necessari un certo numero di fattori fondamentali: tecnica e bravura, essere aperti e liberi, capaci di relazionarsi con gli elementi della formazione che condivide lo spazio scenico, essere pronti alle istanze improvvisative del modern jazz, essere sufficientemente armonici e disarmonici, avere stile anche nel brano più melodico del west, ironeggiare ...
read moreLauren Kinsella: In Between Every Line
by Ian Patterson
It may be that the voice is the most difficult instrument to improvise with, judging by the relatively small number of improvising vocalists out there. Jazz singers who scat are common enough, but only the best are able to breathe life into a style that has become rather formulaic over the past century. Lauren Kinsella (the stress lies on the first syllable) is one singer who is boldly carving out her own path as an improvising vocalist. The London-based Irish ...
read moreLauren Kinsella - Alex Huber: All This Talk About
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trenta minuti trenta che danno una già sufficiente idea della bontà di due nomi relativamente nuovi nell'entourage della musica improvvisata contemporanea. Lei è Lauren Kinsella, irlandese di quelle giuste da molti anni di stanza a Londra, capace di usare la voce nell'acrobatica strada che alcune capostipiti come Lauren Newton (nella peculiare jazz-way della Vienna Art Orchestra anni '80) o Meredith Monk (nell'universo del nuovo “suono vocale" che affronta i temi del sospiro e del respiro) hanno già sondato nel recente ...
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