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Vince Tampio: Live at PafA

Read "Live at PafA" reviewed by Matthew Aquiline

by Matthew Aquiline
February 21, 2017

The long-standing practice of incorporating non-Western instruments within a jazz setting is further evolved on up-and-coming trumpeter and composer Vince Tampio's self-produced album Live at PafA. More specifically, the Philadelphia/New York-based musician culled various percussion instruments from Eastern Europe alongside an Indian tanpura for a performance of five original compositions recorded live at the Pennsylvania Academy ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Baba Sissoko

by Daniele Vogrig
February 13, 2017

Libertà, amore, tradizione. Sono i valori portanti della musica e dell'esistenza di Baba Sissoko, tra i maggiori polistrumentisti griot viventi, per una carriera ormai ventennale costellata da innumerevoli progetti e prestigiose collaborazioni. All'insegna di un unico, grande messaggio di pace universale. All About Jazz: C'è molto blues in ciò che ...

Article: Profile

The Ganelin Trio: Creative Tensions

by Duncan Heining
October 19, 2016

Imagine a time, not so very long ago, when a foreign Jazz/Improvising Trio created such a stir in Britain that they made the TV news! Imagine the national newspapers queuing round the block for interviews. And imagine London's Bloomsbury Theatre filled with musicians, journalists and arts administrators--not to mention the odd, very odd, raincoated spook.

Article: Album Review

Nacka Forum: We Are The World

Read "We Are The World" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 19, 2016

Nacka Forum nasce nel 1999 come formazione improntata principalmente a reinterpretare brani di musicisti quali Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra e Art Ensemble of Chicago. Ben presto il quartetto abbandona quel repertorio per concentrarsi su composizioni originali, cui contribuiscono tutti i membri del gruppo. Giunta al quinto album Nacka Forum si conferma come una delle realtà più ...

Article: Under the Radar

An Evil Clown and a Leap of Faith

by Karl Ackermann
October 7, 2016

"I don't have a half-speed for music, if I do it, I'm all in..."--PEK If the Evil Clown record label is prolific on a per capita basis, then its founder is exponentially more inexhaustible. David Peck (aka PEK) founded the label--at first, unbranded--and its roots date back a little more than twenty years ...

Article: Album Review

The Brooklyn Express: No Time Left!

Read "No Time Left!" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
June 13, 2016

Registrato a Brooklyn nel giugno 2015, questo nuovo lavoro della Premiata Ditta Cavallanti/Tononi non tradisce neanche stavolta le attese, anzi rinverdisce atmosfere e -diciamolo pure -opulenze che la crisi globale in cui ci stiamo dibattendo ha finito spesso per mettere in un angolo (proprio per un fatto di dispiegamento di mezzi e forze). ...

Article: Live Review

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at The Center for New Music

by Harry S. Pariser
February 18, 2016

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Center for New Music San Francisco, CA February 15, 2016 San Francisco's Tenderloin District is a down-and-out area which wags have christened “Twitterloin," (owing to the proximity of Twitter and other tax companies given tax subsidies to erect their palatial edifices in this culturally diverse neighborhood). And the ...

Article: Album Review

William Parker Raining on the Moon: Great Spirit

Read "Great Spirit" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 21, 2015

Finalmente sono pubblicati gli inediti della session di Corn Meal Dance (Aum Fidelity, 2007), registrata dai Raining on the Moon di William Parker il 3 gennaio 2007. Come spiega Steven Joerg nelle note del disco, in quel giorno vennero registrati 14 brani ma fu scartata l'ipotesi del doppio CD e cinque di essi restarono fuori.

Article: Album Review

Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)

Read "Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 3, 2015

La Brigitte del titolo è Brigitte Fontaine, artista “totale" (cantante, poetessa e altro ancora) francese, oggi settantaseienne, che fra le tante esternazioni del suo talento nel 1970 registrò un album, Comme à la radio, con l'Art Ensemble of Chicago. A lei il trentasettenne altoista Darius Jones, nativo della Virginia, dedica questo suo nuovo lavoro, per il ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

AACM - The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music

by Hrayr Attarian
October 26, 2015

The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) was created 50 years ago in Chicago to give voice to adventurous African American musicians and to express the political turmoil of the era. As this is the anniversary year of this revolutionary collective here are ten essential classic AACM recordings that belong in any collection, regardless ...