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Joe Lovano, Evan Parker y CéU en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona (II)
by Joan Fargas
Era una de las grandes noches del festival la del 3 de noviembre. Bruce Lundvall, presidente de Blue Note, charlaba, un rato antes, con el crítico Bob Blumenthal sobre la historia de la discográfica. Tras su conferencia, regresaba a Barcelona el Joe Lovano Nonet. “Este noneto es una de las mejores bandas que he oído ...
John Law: Deeper into the Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged. Historically, the idea of a so-called “third stream" that is able to combine the language of jazz and classical music into a coherent whole has proved rather difficult to translate into praxis, and yet it is undeniable that a ...
Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar
by Guillem Vidal
Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954) comparece puntualmente a su cita con All About Jazz en una mesa del bar del Auditori de Barcelona contigua a la que ocupa en ese momento Horacio Fumero, el contrabajista de Tete Montoliu. Estamos entre el edificio donde el pianista imparte clases de improvisación en jazz y música contemporánea ("el ...
Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders: Fox Fire
by Mark Corroto
The audience has been removed from these live concerts, recorded in 2008 in Birmingham and Leeds, featuring American reedman Ken Vandermark alongside British drummer Mark Sanders and bassist Barry Guy. Despite the constraints of a short, five-day UK tour of only six concerts, there's much to savor in the resulting two discs, for connoisseurs of creative ...
Take Five With Alejandro Florez
by AAJ Staff
Meet Alejandro Florez:Guitarist Alejandro Florez earned a Master's degree in Jazz Performance and Composition from the University of North Texas before moving to NYC. He now performs in various jazz and Colombian bands, and works as a composer/arranger, session player and educator. Alejandro's current projects include “Tibagui," which performs his original music; the Alejandro ...
Improvisation from Barcelona: Agusti Fernandez and Octante
by John Eyles
Albums by pianist Agusti Fernandez and the group Octante (as well as the concurrent release of Barcelona Chronicles by guitarist Derek Bailey) provide a timely opportunity to celebrate the dynamic improvised music scene of Barcelona, Spain. The profile of the city's improvisers has steadily grown in recent years, not least because of the work of IBA ...
The New Black: The White Album
by Clifford Allen
Percussionist Gino Robair's Rastascan label, based in the Bay Area, has long been a sort of outpost for non-idiomatic improvisation in the US, recording groups like the Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton Trio, German reedman Wolfgang Fuchs, saxophonist John Butcher and guitarist Derek Bailey. Robair studied with AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost in England, as well as composition ...
Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist
by A. Henkin
In 2007, just in time for bassist Barry Guy's 60th birthday, Intakt Records released Portrait, equal parts compilation, introduction, overview and mere glimpse into the musical world of this instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. There are tracks from several editions of Guy's colossal London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO), pieces done with longstanding collaborators like Evan Parker and ...
Taylor Ho Bynum and Harris Eisenstadt in London: A Second Anglo/American Convergence
by John Sharpe
Convergence Quartet The Vortex London, U.K. April 27, 2009 Last sighted on these shores in the autumn of 2006, the success of the Convergence Quartet 's inaugural meeting has now borne the fruit of a further tour for cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Harris Eisenstadt, and the up-and-coming English pairing ...
Derek Bailey and Evan Parker: Incus reissues
by John Eyles
The happy coincidence of solo recordings by guitarist Derek Bailey and saxophonist Evan Parker being reissued in quick succession provides a convenient opportunity to reflect on the association of two of the most influential improvisers of their generation. Bailey and Parker first played together in March 1967, recording as part of a Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) ...
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