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Article: Album Review

Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams

Read "Blue Maqams" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Fin dal suo disco d'esordio (Barzakh del 1991, pubblicato, come tutti i successivi lavori, dalla ECM e preceduto solo da alcune cassette autoprodotte) il compositore e suonatore di oud tunisino Anouar Brahem è stato tra i principali esponenti di una musica a cavallo tra Medio Oriente e Occidente, cercando una fusione tra musica araba, improvvisazione jazzistica ...

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Article: Album Review

Bjorn Meyer: Provenance

Read "Provenance" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Swedish electric bass guitarist Björn Meyer has worked with Persian harpist-singer Asita Hamidi (the program is dedicated to her memory), Swedish nyckelharpa player Johan Hedin and Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem, and was a member of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin for a decade, often filling a lead instrument role. So he has a history of fitting his ...

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Article: Album Review

Francois Couturier / Tarkovsky Quartet: Nuit Blanche

Read "Nuit Blanche" reviewed by John Kelman


Following their sublime duo outing, Moderato Cantabile (ECM, 2014), cellist Anja Lechner and François Couturier reunite in the pianist's quartet responsible for two-thirds of a recorded trilogy for ECM Records, all devoted to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, whose name would ultimately become synonymous with the group: Tarkovsky Quartet. Bookending Couturier's second album of the ...

Article: Live Review

Anja Lechner e François Couturier al Teatro Sala Fontana di Milano

Read "Anja Lechner e François Couturier al Teatro Sala Fontana di Milano" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Anja Lechner--François Couturier Ah-Um Meets Europe Milano Teatro Sala Fontana 14.01.2017 Viviamo un periodo storico in cui l'idea di Europa sta attraversando una fase delicata, per non dire di vera e propria crisi. Ad infonderci un minimo di speranza c'è chi -fortunatamente -crede invece che il vecchio continente abbia ancora ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz From Around the World: Africa

Read "Jazz From Around the World: Africa" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


There is no doubt that African heritage, particularly that of west Africa is at the root of jazz. This is simply factual and is not meant to belittle the contributions of other cultures to its growth and development. In addition, as a genre, it has proven to have a wide universal appeal. For both reasons jazz ...

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Pericopes e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Pericopes e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by AAJ Staff


All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della nostra musica. Pericopes: Storie, suoni e frammenti che raccogliamo dal nostro vissuto personale quotidiano. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con noi. Emiliano Vernizzi: La capacità di sorprendere. Alessandro Sgobbio: Propensione a esporsi al rischio.

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Souvenance

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: CD1: Improbable day; Ashen sky; Deliverance; Souvenance; Tunis at dawn; Youssef's song. CD2: January; Like a dream; On the road; Kasserine; Nouvelle vague.

Article: Album Review

Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra: Blues for Tahrir

Read "Blues for Tahrir" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Che il jazz sia una musica sorprendente lo sappiamo bene ma spesso le sorprese ti piombano dal cielo (o per meglio dire, dal web) quando meno te le aspetti. E sono varie ed eccitanti. Il leader di questo medio organico è un clarinettista (basso) statunitense con radici familiari egiziane ed è stato scelto tra i ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu

Read "Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu" reviewed by John Kelman


With only four records released as a leader on ECM, it may seem a little early to release a “best of" disc for drummer Manu Katché. But having since moved on to fellow German label ACT for Live in Concert, while Touchstone for Manu is only being released in North America in the summer of 2015, ...

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Article: Live Review

Anouar Brahem at Jazzablanca Festival 2015

Read "Anouar Brahem at Jazzablanca Festival 2015" reviewed by Mehdi El Mouden


Anouar Brahem Hippodrome Anfa Jazzablanca Festival Casablanca, MoroccoApril 20, 2015 Tunisian oudist/ composer Anouar Brahem is widely acclaimed as a pioneer of the fusion between Middle Eastern music and jazz, with a career spanning over thirty years. In the beginning of the nineties he contributed to the oud ...


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