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Trilok Gurtu: Bad Habits Die Hard
by John Kelman
Trilok GurtuBad Habits Die HardArt of Groove2014 (1996) Well, it's been a good couple weeks since the last Rediscovery, leaving the pile of potential choices even higher than usual. So what better way to resume operations than to revisit an album that already sounded terrific when it was first released in ...
The Rich Musical Vision of Japanese Double Bass Player Tetsu Saitoh
by Eyal Hareuveni
Japanese double bass master Tetsu Saitoh is one of the most original players of the bull fiddle. He is a resourceful and inventive free improviser but also feels at home when is playing Argentine tango, Brazilian music, Korean shaman music, obviously jazz or collaborating with poets, painters, dancers or theatre groups. All enrich his musical world ...
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland at Queen Elizabeth Hall
by Ian Patterson
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland/The Jeremy Monteiro Trio Queen Elizabeth Hall EFG London Jazz Festival 21 November, 2014 The prospect of Kenny Barron and Dave Holland performing as a duo was a mouthwatering one. Both are well versed in the format. In 1971 Holland combined with Derek Bailey and then ...
Sebastian Gramss: Thinking of…
by Eyal Hareuveni
The late Italian double bass master Stefano Scodanibbio, who died untimely in 2012 after a battle with the ALS disease, was a unique artist. A musician who expanded significantly the vocabulary of the double bass, exploring its almost infinite timbral range, and inventor of many extended and experimental techniques. He was also a unique composer and ...
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4: New York Concerts
by Giuseppe Segala
Documento di importanza storica, portato alla preziosa pubblicazione dalla tenacia del produttore Zev Feldman che lo ha rinvenuto nel 2012 nell'archivio di George Klabin, presidente dell'etichetta Resonace Records, New York Concerts rimedia a una lacuna nella produzione di Jimmy Giuffre e nel contempo dà modo di ascoltare alcune tra le sue musiche più significative. A renderle ...
Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII
by John Kelman
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 ...
Jimmy Giuffre: New York Concerts
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist and clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre was a first rate innovator who restlessly reinvented his art without losing its signature character. Despite leaving behind a large recorded legacy Giuffre remains far from being a household name known mostly in hardcore jazz aficionado circles. In 2012 producer Zev Feldman of Elemental Music came across two unreleased ...
Sequoia: Rotations
by Eyal Hareuveni
Sequoia is an international, Berlin-based double bass quartet comprised of German Meinard Kneer, active on both the Dutch and Berlin improvisation scenes and the founder of Evil Rabbit Records; Klaus Kürvers, who initiated this project, a former architect and cultural historian and another player of the Berlin improvised scene; Canadian Miles Perkin, a frequent collaborator of ...
Howard Riley: Live with Repertoire
by Duncan Heining
Pianist Howard Riley turned 70 in February and belatedly celebrates the event with the release of a new CD, Live with Repertoire (NoBusiness Records). It's a really strong live, solo set of standards and a few original tunes recorded last year in Leicester and one that emphasises one particular aspect of his playing. Riley remains one ...
Francois Cotinaud / Barre Phillips / Henri Roger / Emmanuelle Somer: No Meat Inside
by Eyal Hareuveni
This live documentation of an ad-hoc French free improvising quartet was done at the festival Jazz sous les bigaradiers at La Gaude near Nice in November 2012. The friendly atmosphere of the club So What as well as the warm reception of the audience inspired the quartet for this noisy, wild, poetic and free performance.
