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Rodrigo Amado: Motion Trio
by Mark Corroto
Listening to saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, while knowing that he is also an accomplished professional photographer, lends insight into his sound and sense of proportion. His trio members, cellist Miguel Mira and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini, share his recognition of arrangement, distribution, and music-making dimensions. Motion Trio is a freely improvised recording possessing balance. Amado's previous ...
Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum
by AAJ Staff
Introduction by AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen. It is rare in the climate of this music to be presented with a view of an artist that is truly multifaceted, even though the collected works of most artists operate at a number of levels and, on occasion, in a number of media. Bill Dixon is probably best known ...
Alexander Hawkins Quartet at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
Alexander Hawkins Quartet The Vortex London, England January 5, 2010 A very respectable audience braved the cold temperatures (for London where since global warming kicked in it rarely falls below freezing for very long) and further impending snow for the debut of the Alexander Hawkins new quartet at ...
Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers Orchestra / Irene Schweizer: Radio Rondo
by Nic Jones
Radio Rondo was recorded at a Swiss jazz festival in May of 2008. The program is split into two halves, the first of which is a Irene Schweizer solo; the second, featuring the pianist in the company of bassist Barry Guy and his longstanding orchestra. What makes the music notable is the degree to which it's ...
FURT and electronics on Psi
by John Eyles
The four latest releases on saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label tell an interesting story about the past decade as well as about Psi and Parker. Each of the four releases features electronics and includes one or both members of the improvising electronics duo FURT--Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer. After Psi debuted in late 2001, ...
Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra / Irene Schweizer: Radio Rondo / Schaffhausen Concert
by AAJ Italy Staff
Perseguendo dopo oltre un lustro la grande idea di Michael Mantler che, nel 1964 diede il la all'avventura della celebrata Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Barry Guy, contrabbassista e compositore londinese, fonda nel 1974 una formazione che resterà per almeno 30 anni ineguagliata fucina di creatività e di alta esemplificazione di arte musicale. La London Jazz Composers Orchestra ...
Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra
by John Sharpe
Back in 2007 Firehouse 12 Records announced itself in an audacious declaration of intent with release of Anthony Braxton's 9 CD+DVD box set Nine Compositions 2006. Now in a move of similar ambition the label has gone someway to redressing the imbalance in composer/trumpeter Bill Dixon's recorded output, with this handsome two CD + DVD set ...
