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Art Ensemble Of Chicago

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz ensemble that grew out of Chicago's AACM in the late 1960s. The group continues to tour and record through 2006, despite the deaths of two of the founding members. The Art Ensemble is notable for its integration of musical styles spanning jazz's entire history and for their multi-instrumentalism, especially the use of what they termed "little instruments" in addition to the traditional jazz lineup; "little instruments" can include bicycle horns, bells, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and a vast array of percussion instruments (including found objects)

The Black Saint And Soul Note Labels

by Jerome Wilson
June 3, 2022

Since 1975, the Black Saint and Soul Note record labels have been a major force in documenting the growth of American avant-garde jazz. This program samples two hours of music from their diverse catalog. It includes work from artists who had long associations with the labels such as Muhal Richard Abrams and David Murray as well ...

JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 5, 2022

Jazzlab Orchestra has been a fixture on the jazz scene in Canada for nearly two decades. Their unique heavy sound features six brass and reed players with a relatively standard piano, bass and drum rhythm section, and they've captured that sound on several standalone recordings and presented it on more than 300 concert stages across North ...

Monsters from the Jazzlab

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 17, 2022

Rodrigo Almonte Distancia Odradek Records 2021 “Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical ...

Riccardo Marogna e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
March 3, 2022

Il tratto principale della mia musica Astratta ma viscerale. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La pazienza[sorride, NdR]. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice A quindici anni, i primi concertini in qualche bar di paese con la prima rock band.

Rodrigo Amado, Pepa Paivinen & Luca Perciballi

by Maurice Hogue
January 5, 2022

There's a distinct European flavour to this episode of One Man's Jazz. Powerhouse Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado snagged three of Norway's top improvisers Thomas Johansson, Jon Rune Strøm and Gard Nilssen) to form a new band he calls Northern Liberties, and the quartet does exactly that on the new We Are Electric. Also in this playlist ...

Dave Rempis' Percussion Quartet: Sud Des Alpes

by John Sharpe
December 17, 2021

Recorded live in Geneva during the group's 15th Anniversary tour, Sud Des Alpes is the tenth outing from Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis' Percussion Quartet. The band is one of his longest established outlets, boasting a consistent membership, with the drum stools occupied by Tim Daisy and Frank Rosaly since the first album in 2005, and just ...

Roscoe Mitchell: Dots - Works For Percussion and Woodwinds

by Karl Ackermann
October 25, 2021

Roscoe Mitchell occupies a special place in the pantheon of music. He is a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin, the California Institute of the Arts and Mills College in Oakland, California. ...

When Jazz Pops, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 19, 2021

This week's playlist focuses on the contribution of jazz musicians to pop, hip-hop, and rock projects, from the Art Ensemble of Chicago playing with French singer Brigitte Fontaine, to John Zorn featured on the debut album by the Brazilian queen Marisa Monte and The Thing's mighty alliance with Neneh Cherry. And a tribute to the late ...

Bergamo Jazz 2021

by Libero Farnè
September 23, 2021

Bergamo Varie sedi 16—19.9.2021 Nel febbraio 2020 su questo sito apparve una bella ed esaustiva intervista a Maria Pia De Vito, in qualità di neo nominata alla direzione artistica di Bergamo Jazz, prima donna dopo oltre quaranta edizioni del festival. Fra l'altro, in quella circostanza si colse opportunamente l'occasione per disquisire sul ...