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Article: Extended Analysis

Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII

by John Kelman
August 2, 2014

When München's Haus der Kunst sponsored a nearly three-month exhibition about the ECM Records label, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, which ran from November, 2012 to February, 2013, there was far more to it than just bringing together collections of album covers, rarely seen video, archival tapes, imagery and concert performances. As much as ECM has carved ...

Article: Live Review

Dinamitri Jazz Folklore "La Società delle Maschere"

by Neri Pollastri
June 17, 2014

Spazio Alfieri Firenze 13.04.2014 Sono oltre due anni che Dimitri Grechi Espinoza e il gruppo di eccellenti musicisti raccolti nel suo Dinamitri Jazz Folklore lavorano attorno al progetto della “Società delle Maschere." Anni che hanno prodotto una lunga serie di concerti e l'eccellente CD per la Rudi Records, ma che ...

Article: Interview

Le musiche senza frontiere di Giovanni Venosta

by Claudio Bonomi
April 10, 2014

Classe 1961, Giovanni Venosta è una delle figure più originali dello scenario musicale del Bel Paese. Un manipolatore di suoni, uno sperimentatore innamorato del crossover, un geniale creatore di musiche per film che, e qui sta il paradosso, non ha mai preso una lezione di tecnica di composizione. Si diploma in pianoforte nel 1983 e, a ...

Article: Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell/Tony Marsh/John Edwards: Improvisations

Read "Improvisations" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 3, 2014

Not content with existence as a cutting edge venue for experimental music of all kinds, London's Cafe Oto has also launched its own record label OTOroku, documenting some of the stellar performances in the space. For their sixth release, they have selected material drawn from a 2 day residency by renowned AACM and Art Ensemble of ...

Article: Album Review

Melodic Art-Tet: Melodic Art-Tet

Read "Melodic Art-Tet" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 27, 2014

Su doppio LP (tirato in 400 esemplari) o singolo CD (di quasi ottanta minuti), la benemerita etichetta lituana NoBusiness Records porta alla luce un altro reperto d'epoca, in questo caso, oltre tutto, riguardante una formazione altrimenti inedita su disco. Si tratta del Melodic Art-Tet, prodotto abbastanza tipico del cosiddetto loft jazz, colto in una registrazione radiofonica ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Pi Recordings: Dedicated to the Innovative

by Mike Oppenheim
January 9, 2014

In the pantheon of American music, jazz is especially noted for its rapid and drastic evolution. Considering that jazz evolved from big bands and swing, to bebop, to free jazz within thirty years, it is a history marked by distinct stylistic eras. For some time, the trajectory and potential development of jazz has been in question. ...

Article: Interview

Mosaic Records: Making Jazz History

by Bob Kenselaar
December 23, 2013

No one is more astonished by the longevity of Mosaic Records than Michael Cuscuna, the veteran record producer and one-time disc jockey who founded the label together with Charlie Lourie, a former clarinetist who worked in both jazz and classical contexts before becoming an executive at CBS records, Blue Note, and elsewhere. Arguably the premier reissue ...

Article: Album Review

Noah Rosen / Alan Siva: O.I.L. (Orchestrated Improvised Lives)

Read "O.I.L. (Orchestrated Improvised Lives)" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 13, 2013

Alan Silva is one of the last true heroes of free jazz and improvised music. He was at the right place, at the right time with his own powerful sound. He played, while still playing the double bass, on some of the formative recordings of the forefathers of the sixties free jazz as Albert Ayler, Sun ...

Article: Album Review

Rich Rosenthal: Falling Up

Read "Falling Up" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 5, 2013

At a young age, New York-based guitarist Rich Rosenthal guitarist, was weaned on the cutting-edge sounds of Steve Lacy, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and other iconoclasts, broadening the jazz vernacular. With a lack of family support for becoming a career musician, Rosenthal needed to work through some inner-conflicts, while subsequently completing a jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Live At "A Space" 1975

Read "Live At "A Space" 1975" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 20, 2013

The Canadian label Sackville released a series of exceptional albums throughout its forty plus year existence. A fair number of these document free-jazz concerts by American luminaries that took place in its hometown of Toronto. When the company folded, Chicago based Delmark purchased its Avant-Garde catalogue and has released expanded versions of these records on CD.