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Article: Album Review

Marco Colonna, Augusti Fernandez: Desmadre

Read "Desmadre" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Questo disco di totale improvvisazione vede all'opera il più importante improvvisatore spagnolo, il pianista Augusti Fernandez--membro dell'Electro-Acoustic Ensemble di Evan Parker e della New Orchestra di Barry Guy--e uno dei più originali e interessanti della scena nostrana, il clarinettista Marco Colonna. Registrato a Barcellona dallo stesso Fernandez è poi stato pubblicato dalla Fonterossa Records di Silvia ...

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Article: Album Review

Barry Guy: Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett

Read "Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Not to be confused with Fizzles (Maya, 1993), which contains the first documented version of the titular work along with other pieces for solo bass, Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett is a 14 minute limited edition EP which does what it says on the tin. Virtuoso British bassist Barry Guy has long drawn inspiration from other ...

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Article: Album Review

Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille: Song for a New Decade

Read "Song for a New Decade" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Song for a New Decade joins relative newcomer, Finnish saxophonist/composer Mikko Innanen with veteran drummer Andrew Cyrille and bassist William Parker, the latter appearing on the first of the two-disc set. Innanen has won numerous European music awards and though much of his playing and recording has been regional, he has performed with drummer Han Bennink, ...

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Article: Album Review

Irene Schweizer / Jurg Wickihalder: Spring

Read "Spring" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

On his only previous session in duet with piano -A Feeling For Someone (Intakt, 2008) -Swiss reedman Jurg Wickihalder's indebtedness to that master of the straight horn Steve Lacy was still evident. But on Spring, in the company of the iconoclastic pianist Irene Schweizer, Wickihalder sounds entirely his own man. Both principals boast serious avant-garde credentials, ...

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Article: Album Review

Roil: Raft of the Meadows

Read "Raft of the Meadows" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Established in 2007, Roil comprises three Australians from the Sydney jazz scene, sharing pianist Chris Abrahams with that other better known Antipodean combo The Necks. Like that last outfit Roil manifests as an egalitarian concern, continuing in the lineage trailblazed by Bill Evans in the 1960s via Howard Riley's trio with Barry Guy a decade later. ...

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Article: Profile

A Madman’s Approach To Music And Why Can't Music Be Like A Tree?

Read "A Madman’s Approach To Music And Why Can't Music Be Like A Tree?" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining

"Art alone makes life possible." --Joseph Beuys. The Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra is unique. It's an over-used word, I know, but in this case fully justified. GIO are unique in so many ways--in the way they formed, the way they make decisions, in their make-up, how they work and most importantly how they sound. They ...

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Amphi - Radio Rondo

By Barry Guy

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Amphi; Radio Rondo.

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Barry Guy New Orchestra: Amphi - Radio Rondo

By Barry Guy

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Amphi; Radio Rondo.

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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014

Read "John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Here are eleven new releases, reviewed at All About Jazz, which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Nicole Mitchell The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art Records) Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. On their second outing she ...

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Article: Live Review

Music Unlimited Festival 2014

Read "Music Unlimited Festival 2014" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Music Unlimited Festival Wels, Austria November 7-9, 2014 Nothing about the appearance of the town Wels, in western Austria, suggests that this sleepy old commune located in the middle of a vast agricultural area is a Mecca for adventurous music aficionados. Every year, hundreds of people habitually gather from ...


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