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Article: Live Review

Jazz in Church 2013

Read "Jazz in Church 2013" reviewed by Adriana Carcu


Jazz in ChurchBucharest, Romania March 21-24, 2013 From the very first edition, Jazz in Church has convinced through professionalism and a musical excellence, which are sure to place it soon among the best-rated European festivals. By putting together an illustrious lineup and demonstrating exquisite selectivity, the organizers inaugurated a location that emulates ...

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Article: Album Review

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble / Levon Eskenian: Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff

Read "Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Philosopher, traveler, mystic, spiritual adventurer, teacher, musician and a fervent seeker of esoteric knowledge, G. I. Gurdjieff and his legacy are still of interest to many. His early years shrouded in mystery, he wandered through Central Asia and Middle East while still a young man, absorbing the spiritual and philosophical ideas of the religions he encountered, ...

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Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011

Read "Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011" reviewed by John Kelman


Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 27--November 1, 2011 It's always great to return somewhere that has become an annual port of call, but it's particularly nice to return to Germany's Enjoy Jazz, that atypical jazz festival which--rather than running for a week and concentrating a whack of shows in that short time frame--runs ...

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Manfred Eicher: Through the Lens

Read "Manfred Eicher: Through the Lens" reviewed by John Kelman


It begins in silence, always silence. Since the 1990s, all ECM recordings begin with five seconds of silence, and so, too, do directors Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer open their feature film on the heralded German record label and its enigmatic founder, Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher. As longtime ECM recording artist Keith Jarrett's ...

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Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner / Felix Saluzzi: Navidad de los Andes

Read "Navidad de los Andes" reviewed by John Kelman


Most musicians work with a wide range of other collaborators over time, but only a precious few become so empathically close as to engender ongoing relationships. It's no surprise that Argentinean bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi has continued to work with his brother, saxophonist/clarinetist Felix, their genetic bond clearly apparent on Dino Saluzzi Group recordings like Juan Condori ...

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Article: Film Review

Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher

Read "Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher ECM Records2011 Some people have invented products and concepts that have revolutionized the world. Some have devoted their lives to helping others, while some have conquered mountains and have built business empires. Others have given us ...

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Francois Couturier: Tarkovsky Quartet

Read "Tarkovsky Quartet" reviewed by John Kelman


He may have passed away a quarter century ago, but the spirit of Russian film director Andrey Tarkovsky continues to loom large, and not just in the world of cinema. The connection between film and music has long been an intimate one, dating back to the early silent days, when pianists provided a live (and often ...

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Dino Saluzzi: El Encuentro

Read "El Encuentro" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


On El Ecuentro, Argentine bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi teams with saxophonist brother Felix Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner in a meeting with Holland's Metropole Orchestra. It is Saluzzi's first recorded encounter with an orchestra, and his first ever live recording. More familiar ground for Saluzzi is his work with Lechner, on Ojos Negros (ECM, 2007), and ...

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Article: Live Review

Norwegian Road Trip, Part 6: Molde Jazz, Days 3-4

Read "Norwegian Road Trip, Part 6: Molde Jazz, Days 3-4" reviewed by John Kelman


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...

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IXXU

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01.-03. Ixxu (1998-2004); 04.-09. My Illness Is The Medicine I Need (2002); 10.-12. Mumien (2001-2002); 13.-16. Cold Farmer (1990)


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