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UpRoot

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Why Is Love Such a Funny Thing?; The Miracle / You; UpRoot; If You Say So; Blasé; OM-SE / Environment Music; Joy; Directives / Walk Nicely / I’ll Meet You There.

Album

UnRoot

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Why Is Love Such a Funny Thing?; The Miracle • You; UpRoot; If You Say So; Blasé; OM-SE • Environment Music; Joy; Directives • Walk Nicely • I’ll Meet You There.

Album

Unit[e]

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: For The People; [C]all (Part 1); [T]each; [K]now; [W]here; [C]all (Part 2); [S]how; Forge[t]; See[k] > Hear[t]; Idea[l]; Sun[g] > Star[k]; Unit[e].

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Article: Album Review

Alexander Hawkins / Elaine Mitchener Quartet: UpRoot

Read "UpRoot" reviewed by David Rocheleau-Houle


Taking risk is--among other things--the essence of free jazz and experimental music. It is by taking risk that musicians can develop their own identity and push further the too many musical borders. With the possibility to take risk, a sense of freedom emerges--whether this sense of freedom refers to something real is not important here--and a ...

Article: Album Review

Roberto Ottaviano QuarkTet: Sideralis

Read "Sideralis" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Per il suo più recente lavoro, appena pubblicato, Roberto Ottaviano ha inteso realizzare un omaggio a John Coltrane nella ricorrenza del cinquantesimo anniversario dalla sua scomparsa. In realtà il disco è molto più di un semplice tributo al grande artista, che è sempre stato uno dei principali punti di riferimento per Ottaviano; le dieci composizioni originali ...

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Article: Interview

Eve Risser: 88 tasti e magia

Read "Eve Risser: 88 tasti e magia" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Pianista, compositrice, improvvisatrice tra le più originali e interessanti attualmente sulla scena europea, la francese Eve Risser sta ottenendo un sempre più crescente successo e affetto. Merito della sua musica, complessa e particolare, ma sempre dotata di uno speciale calore comunicativo, anche nei suoi frangenti più astratti. Merito della sua capacità di ...

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Article: Interview

A dialogo con Roberto Ottaviano

Read "A dialogo con Roberto Ottaviano" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Poliedrico quanto a collaborazioni ed esplorazioni di aree stilistiche, sempre rigorosissimo nel modo di affrontare qualsiasi situazione musicale, ritenuto dalla critica uno dei maggiori interpreti del sassofono jazz in Europa, Roberto Ottaviano è prossimo a compiere sessant'anni, essendo nato a Bari nel dicembre del '57. E lo fa presentando un ennesimo lavoro di altissimo livello, altro ...

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Article: Album Review

Dominic Lash: Extremophile

Read "Extremophile" reviewed by John Sharpe


According to Wikipedia, an extremophile is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth. By titling the second disc from his Quartet in this way you can't help but think that bassist Dominic Lash is drawing an analogy with the place of the improviser in the ...

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Article: Album Review

Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors

Read "A Night Walking Through Mirrors" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Per festeggiare i vent'anni di attività il Chicago Underground Duo declina la sua ennesima versione e ci lascia un ulteriore testimonianza di potenza creativa, di visionarietà e di musica tout-court di altissimo livello. Nell'aprile 2016, durante una due giorni di esibizione al Cafè Oto di Londra Rob Mazurek e Chad Taylor invitano sul palco John Edwards ...

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Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

The Slovenian Experience: Jazz Festival Ljubljana 2017

Read "The Slovenian Experience: Jazz Festival Ljubljana 2017" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Ljubljana--capital of the Republic of Slovenia, member of EU, neighbored by Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy--hosts the oldest jazz festival in Europe, which held its 58th edition this year (June, 28--July, 2). The event is organized by Cankarjev House/Cankarjev Dom, a prestigious, state-run cultural center in midtown Ljubljana, residing in one half of an impressive twin ...


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