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Touch and Go Sextet: Live at the Novara Jazz Festival
by Robert Bush
Drummer Vijay Anderson formed the Touch and Go Sextet in the Bay Area as a vehicle for performing and interpreting the works of visiting musicians, but his concurrent studies with alto sax legend Roscoe Mitchell gave him the confidence to steer this three-reed, one trumpet and double-bass ensemble into original compositions, the results of which are ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2014
by Henning Bolte
Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen July, 8-10, 2014 The ten-day Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with its 1,200 concerts, is maybe the largest of its kind in Europe. This number of concerts is the consequence of a unique concept. The core of the festival, with some international headliners, is a relatively small scale ...
Lawnmower: Lawnmower II
by Vincenzo Roggero
Lawnmower è un'idea musicale del batterista Luther Gray (Anthony Braxton, Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee per citare alcune sue frequentazioni) che nel 2010 si concretizzò sulla label portoghese Clean Feed in un'inedita formazione completata da due chitarre elettriche e da un sassofono. Quattro anni dopo il leader si ripresenta con il fido Jim Hobbs ...
Steve Swell: Unlimited Musical Possibilities
by Victor L. Schermer
"Free Jazz" and “Avant-Garde Jazz" are catch phrases often associated with musical pioneers such as Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor but more broadly refer to music that goes outside of the mainstream of melody, harmony, rhythm, and structure. When that happens, opinions and emotions abound. Reactions vary from disgust to excitement and enthusiasm, and it is ...
Steve Lehman: Mise en Abîme
by Luca Canini
È successo tutto piuttosto in fretta: da giovane promessa a venerato maestro. Un'ascesa irresistibile quella di Steve Lehman, un'esplosione assordante. Qualche anno e una manciata di dischi sono bastati per farlo entrare nel novero dei grandissimi del jazz che conta (quello che guardando al passato si proietta verso il futuro: il resto è tempo più o ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Braxton
All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Braxton's birthday today! To his list of achievements and awards, Anthony Braxton may now add the 1994 MacArthur Fellowship: the so-called “genius" grant of (in his case) $300,000, awarded to individuals nominated for outstanding and original contributions to their field. The timing of this crowning achievement couldn\'t be better for ...
Steve Lehman: Mise en Abîme
by Karl Ackermann
Composer/saxophonist Steve Lehman's credentials are as unique as his music. A Fulbright scholar with a PhD in composition, his on the job training has been at the hands of a diverse group of teachers including saxophone legends Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton. A New York native, Lehman garnered widespread praise with the groundbreaking Travail, Transformation and ...
Visual & Visionary Jazz a Vicenza
by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz 2014 Vari luoghi 14-16.05.2014 La recensione di tre serate di Vicenza Jazz 2014, durato dal 9 al 17 maggio, può essere sufficiente per individuarne la filosofia. Sotto il titolo “Visual & Visionary Jazz--Sull'Arka di Sun Ra, tra vecchie e nuove avanguardie," che ha funzionato come pretesto, come indirizzo indicativo, la ...
Andrew Raffo Dewar: Interactions Quartet
by Libero Farnè
Ecco un esempio di come i confini fra improvvisazione di matrice jazzistica e concezione compositiva contemporanea possano oggi essere sfumati, con travalicamenti continui da un'area all'altra, sia per quanto riguarda i meccanismi della produzione sonora da parte degli esecutori, sia per quanto attiene gli esiti del messaggio musicale percepito da chi ascolta. Dell'ambiziosa e impegnativa operazione, ...
Mario Pavone: Street Songs
by Mark Corroto
Listing an accordion in a jazz sextet's lineup evokes either thoughts of avant-garde leanings or maybe kitschy hipsterism. Not so for bassist Mario Pavone. Street Songs includes Adam Matlock's bellows-driven squeezebox, not as a gimcrack ornament, but a link to the immigrant working class neighborhood music of Pavone's post-WW II youth. The musician's history ...
