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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Giancarlo Schiaffini & Sergio Armaroli and Kopasetic artists

by Maurice Hogue
February 24, 2021

Deconstructing one of the original deconstructers of jazz, Thelonious Monk, is no easy task, but the Italian duo of trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini and percussionist Sergio Armaroli do exactly that on their new album Deconstructing Monk In Africa. It's one of the more unusual releases of late; you'll hear an excerpt from their extended work. Monk is ...

Article: Album Review

Alexander Hawkins: Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)

Read "Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
February 22, 2021

Con questo lavoro, Alexander Hawkins aggiunge una tessera significativa al proprio originale percorso artistico, qui in particolare nella dialettica tra improvvisazione e musica scritta, dimostrando una maturazione consapevole e in costante sviluppo. Attento, curioso, audace, guidato da un sicuro istinto e da lucidità progettuale, il pianista di Oxford rappresenta la punta di diamante della propria generazione, ...

Article: Album Review

Alexander Hawkins Feat. Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble: Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)

Read "Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 15, 2021

It is obvious from the outset that this is a significant recording. Evan Parker launches into his trademark soprano saxophone circular breathing, setting the stage for things to come. An exemplar of all things free improvisation, his virtuosity never fails to amaze. Although Parker is the marquee soloist here, the composer and organizer of this session, ...

Album

Shards and Constellations

By Alexander Hawkins

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: If Becomes Is; Shards and Constellations; Danced Together; Sung Together; Peace on You; Strange Familiar; A Guess That Deepens; Serene and Playful; Albert Ayler (His Life Was Too Short); Is Becomes If.

Album

Dolphy Underlined

By Marco Colonna

Label: fsrecords
Released: 2020
Track listing: Miss Ann; Out to Lunch; Something Sweet, Something Tender; Serene; Gazzelloni; Straight Up and Down; God Bless the Child; Frame; 245.

Album

Resonance & Rapsodies

By Roberto Ottaviano

Label: Dodicilune
Released: 2020
Track listing:
CD 1
Promise; Revelation; Homo Sum; Dedalus; Omumua; Resonance; Ad astra.
CD2
Adelante; Ergonomic; Ijo Ki Mba Jo; Monkonious; Villaraspa; To the Masters; China Syndrome; Violeta; Mad for Misha.

Album

Apura!

By Karl Evangelista

Label: Astral Spirits
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD1: Apura!; Heto Buhay Pa; State Of Emergency; Utang Na Loob; Totoo Yan; Siyanga Pala; I Eat Death Threats For Breakfast; Resist; CD2: FDT; Harana; Refugee; Warriors; Player Piano; Balikbayan; Consummatum Est.

Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2020

by John Sharpe
December 23, 2020

With so few performance opportunities since March, and musicians in continuing limbo, the continued stream of new releases has been a surprise, but a welcome one. For me, and many others, music has been a source of solace in an otherwise dreadful year. That makes it all the more invidious to pick and choose between honest ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tim Berne, Russ Lossing & Hot Heros and Iro Haarla

by Maurice Hogue
December 20, 2020

New albums from saxophonists Tim Berne and Sabir Mateen, from guitarists Alex Ward and Dave Gisler with Jaimie Branch, Finland's Hot Heros joined by pianist Iro Haarla, and pianist Russ Lossing fronting a quartet this time. Top it off with Louis Moholo Moholo's Five Blokes live in London, add a whole bunch more great stuff including ...

Article: Live Review

Pasquale Mirra e Hamid Drake al Roma Jazz Festival

by Serena Antinucci
November 20, 2020

Roma Jazz Festival Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma 12.11.2020 Camminando nei corridoi dell'Auditorium Parco della Musica c'è un silenzio anomalo, mai provato prima. Nella sala Petrassi, per il concerto di Pasquale Mirra e Hamid Drake, in diretta streaming sulla piattaforma Live Now, ci sono solo gli addetti ai lavori. L'incontro tra ...