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JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
Take Five With Steve Lehman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Steve Lehman: Named a Rising Star on the alto saxophone in 2006, 2007, and 2008 by the Down Beat Magazine International Critics Poll, Steve Lehman is a saxophonist and composer whose work resides on the frontier of contemporary music. He has been recognized as one of today's truly original creative voices by The ...
May 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jamie Baum & Tomasz StankoJamie Baum Septet and Tomasz Stanko QuartetMerkin HallNew York City April 4, 2009It was a pretty sure bet that “Juxtapositions In Jazz," a Merkin Concert Hall double bill featuring the Jamie Baum Septet and Tomasz Stanko Quartet (Apr. 4th), would live up to its ...
Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley: Crackleknob
by Troy Collins
A compelling example of evenhanded group improvisation, the self-titled debut of the collective trio Crackleknob demonstrates the sort of congenial rapport fueled by longstanding friendships. Up and coming improvisers on the nascent Brooklyn scene, guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Reuben Radding and trumpeter Nate Wooley first played as a trio four years ago. Since then, they have ...
Anthony Braxton: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989
by Troy Collins
Responsible for some of the most esoteric and uncompromising music of the past four decades, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Anthony Braxton is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, due in part to the critical acclaim afforded former students and current sidemen like Taylor Ho Bynum and Mary Halvorson. Braxton's work is one of constant evolution; ...
Four Chicagoans Stir Up Musical Turbulence in NYC: Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Ken Vandermark and Jack DeJohnette
by Martin Longley
Anthony Braxton & The Walter Thompson Orchestra Irondale CenterApril 16, 2009 The Irondale Center is a new arts space in the general locale of BAM (Brooklyn Academy Of Music) and represents the first stage in the Cultural District plan dreamed up by its president Harvey Lichtenstein. Indeed, at present, the quaint ...
Anthony Braxton: Quartet (GTM) 2006
by Stuart Broomer
Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music is a vast continent, a central preoccupation for the composer from 1995 to 2006 that would take in about 100 compositions. The first examples, “Composition Nos. 181-184," were recorded by a quartet. Each piece was characterized by the hypnotic continuous lines of equal length, evenly accented notes suggesting endless melody. The ...
Anthony Braxton: Piano Music (1968 – 2000)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come i 4 cd del cofanetto editi dalla hatART Piano Music (Notated) 1968-1988 nel 1996, anche i 9 di Piano Music (1968--2000) editi da Leo Records nel 2008 rappresentano un punto di definizione chiave nella discografia di Anthony Braxton. Entrambi attraversano un'ampio spettro temporale che permette di delineare alcune delle fasi della musica del sassofonista di ...
Un tuffo nella visionaria e sterminata discografia di Braxton
by AAJ Italy Staff
Letto in controluce il caleidoscopisco corpus delle ormai quattrocento composizioni di Anthony Braxton è percorso da una serie di “venature" piene di linfa ed energia creativa che tratteggiano il profilo di una personalità davvero unica nel panorama musicale contemporaneo. Volendosi immettere anche solo in una a caso di queste è possibile ripercorrere tutte le diverse fasi ...
Anthony Braxton + Italian Instabile Orchestra: Creative Orchestra (Bolzano) 2007
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'Alto Adige Jazz Festival di Bolzano, dove il 16 giugno 2007 è stato registrato questo CD, prima e dopo il concerto i membri dell'Instabile e lo stesso Braxton erano visibilmente soddisfatti; la collaborazione infatti si era sviluppata con entusiasmo e rispetto reciproco, secondo una sintonia umana oltre che musicale. Altre volte in passato l'orchestra aveva intrecciato ...
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