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Article: Live Review

Jazz Baltica 2012 Opening Night: Niendorf, Germany, June 29, 2012

by Alex T.
August 10, 2012

Jazz Baltica Ensemble / Stefano Bollani with the NDR Big BandJazz Baltica 2012Niendorf, GermanyJune 29, 2012In the course of its 21 years of existence, Jazz Baltica has developed into one of Germany's most important jazz festivals. After a period of uncertainty about sponsors and funding in 2010 and 2011, Jazz Baltica ...

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Article: Album Review

Ned Rothenberg: Solo Works - The Lumina Recordings

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by Alex T.
June 2, 2006

Despite the landmark work of Sonny Rollins, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker and Steve Lacy, solo saxophone performance represents an exception rather than the norm in jazz and improvisation. Because of the instrumental limitations, solo reed players need to develop complex multiphonic techniques or make use of electronic overdubbing in order to go beyond mere single-note playing. ...

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Joseph Holbrooke Trio: The Moat Recordings

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by Alex T.
May 19, 2006

The Moat Recordings fills in a gap in the story of free improvised music. Bassist Gavin Bryars, drummer Tony Oxley and guitarist Derek Bailey (who passed away in December 2005) met in Sheffield, England in the mid-'60s and started out stretching the limits of modal jazz toward freer forms of musical expression, increasingly moving away from ...

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Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink in Berlin

by Alex T.
May 11, 2006

Pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, two father figures of Dutch jazz and free improvisation, appeared for a duo concert at Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany on April 23, 2006. Both have played together in different contexts for decades, most famously with the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra, a large ensemble of Dutch improvisers ...