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Various Artists: Newvelle Muri

Read "Newvelle Muri" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
December 8, 2019

Swiss drummer/percussionist and composer, Stephan Diethelm lived in Zimbabwe for several years and was musically influenced by the African rhythms he heard. He had appeared on four albums when he launched the Muri Series, an ongoing succession of concerts that began in 2002, sometimes called Musig im Pflegidach. Pflegidach is a monastery that dates to the ...

Article: Film Review

Blue Note Records Beyond The Notes

by Chris May
November 21, 2019

Blue Note Records Beyond The Notes Director: Sophie Huber Run Time: 111 minutes Eagle Rock Entertainment 2019 Blue Note fans will love this film. It is an unblemished, 360-degree, feel-good feast for the eyes and the ears. Intended by director Sophie Huber to make sense ...

Article: Live Review

Italian Showcase Festival and Fringe Program, Novara

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 26, 2019

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 European Jazz Conference 2019: Italian Showcase Festival and Fringe Program Various venues Novara, Italy September 11-15, 2019 At a time when the ideals of unity and transnational solidarity that represented the founding values of modern-day Europe seem to be faltering under ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2019

by Stefano Merighi
August 14, 2019

Jazz em agosto Lisbona 1-4.8.2019 Resistenza e narrazioni. Questo in sintesi il filo conduttore dell'edizione 2019 di Jazz em Agosto, in corso di svolgimento come sempre presso la fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona. Un'edizione “militante," dunque, sebbene non così originale come in altre occasioni, vista la ripresa di ...

Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival 2019

by Doug Hall
August 9, 2019

Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI August 2-4, 2019 The 65th Anniversary Newport Jazz Festival continued an established tradition of delivering an exceptional level of high quality musicianship. Over the three fully packed days (and one special evening at the International Tennis Hall of Fame) from August 2nd ...

Article: Album Review

Mette Juul: Change

Read "Change" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 7, 2019

Change is an inevitable part of life and music. The very essence of being a jazz musician involves catching a musical moment that never comes back again, but occasionally, a record shows up that is both a document of change and the sum of a lifetime. With Change, Danish jazz singer, guitarist and songwriter, Mette Juul, ...

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Camilla Battaglia: EMIT: Rotator Tenet

Read "EMIT: Rotator Tenet" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
August 5, 2019

Definire Camilla Battaglia una cantante jazz è riduttivo. Certamente l'espressione vocale è il suo tratto saliente ma solo marginalmente si lega al canto jazz tradizionale, perché trova nel panorama contemporaneo gli elementi per costruire la propria identità. Tra le vocalist con cui troviamo affinità possiamo citare Norma Winstone e, per qualche aspetto, Becca ...

Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2019

by Martin Longley
July 30, 2019

Moldejazz Molde, Norway July 15-20, 2019 In the last few years, the Moldejazz festival's artists-in-residence have kept their appearances down to a manageable human count, with two or three concert manifestations apiece from Pat Metheny, Vijay Iyer and Maria Schneider. For the 2019 edition, that position was awarded to Norwegian ...

Article: Jazzmatazz

Jazz, Zen, and Hip-Hop: The 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival

by Matt Hooke
July 16, 2019

Exploring the grounds of the Montreal Jazz Festival is like going to all you can eat Las Vegas buffet. “Look over there at table four; there's Dixieland. Wait at table six, there's Latin jazz, supposedly the main table as a new head chef, let's go there." You can stuff yourself by going ...

Article: Album Review

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Ancestral Recall

Read "Ancestral Recall" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 20, 2019

It's rare to see Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's name without some derivation of “architect" affixed to it. It's appropriate. The New Orleans trumpeter and composer—like his peers Kamasi Washington and Ambrose Akinmusire—is part of a wave of jazz musicians determined to keep the genre's momentum moving forward. Adjuah's Ancestral Recall seeks to dismiss notions of identity-based ...