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Daniel Sommer: Duets
by Jakob Baekgaard
One of the most important things about being a drummer is the ability to play in different contexts. Whether it is a subdued, lyrical conversation or a frenetic exchange of energy, the drummer helps to shape the mood of the music by underlining it or adding contrapuntal color. A duo record is perhaps ...
Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2017
by Angelo Leonardi
Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2017 Smartno, Slovenia 14-16.09.2017 Nel suo appuntamento annuale a Šmartno, sulle colline del Collio sloveno poco oltre Gorizia, il “Brda Contemporary Music Festival" continua a presentare il meglio della musica improvvisata europea. Un piccolo ma significativo evento giunto alla settima edizione, che raccoglie un affezionato pubblico ...
Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans and Chicago
by Karl Ackermann
Marching bands, ragtime music, and the blues, were all well-entrenched and spreading up the Mississippi River Valley from New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century. Dixieland was the popular music staple and with the all-white Original Dixieland Jass Band recording the first jazz side, “Livery Stable Blues," in 1917, an original musical language was ...
University of the Arts “Z” Big Band: Jumpin’ at the Monterey Jazz Festival
by Victor L. Schermer
University of the Arts “Z" Big Band Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 17, 2017 This article is a follow-up to the review of the “Z" Band Reception and Kickoff Concert in Philadelphia on September 7. If you want to know a little more about the band, you can check out ...
Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway: Just Friends: Live at the Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
Resonance Records has dramatically improved the respective discographies of Bill Evans (Live At Art D'Lugoff's Top of The Gate (2012), Some Other Time: the Lost Session From the Black Forest (2016), Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (2017)); Wes Montgomery (Echoes of Indiana Avenue (2012), Wes Montgomery: In The Beginning-Early Recordings from 1949-1958 (2015), Smokin' in Seattle: ...
Simon Eskildsen Trio: Introducing the Simon Eskildsen Trio
by Jakob Baekgaard
The art of the piano trio is very difficult to master and yet very simple. It is all about chemistry. Three players trying to find a language together, traversing a path that has been explored so many times before. Keeping the heavy heritage of the piano trio in mind, including leaders like Bill ...
Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz
by Mark Corroto
Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz Fred Hersch 307 Pages ISBN: #9781101904343 Crown Archetype Press 2017 Disclaimer #1: Like the author, I harbor a blood pathogen (he HIV, me Leukemia) that is intent on killing me. Disclaimer #2: Being of similar ...
Mike Stern: Trip
by Jeff Winbush
In the blink of an eye an accident can happen and when it does it can be a life-altering event. Think of a brain surgeon or a pro quarterback. Think of what it would mean it they suffered some sort of injury which made it impossible to grasp a scalpel or throw a football with the ...
Roxy Coss: Chasing the Unicorn
by Paul Rauch
The title of the third, and latest release of New York based saxophonist Roxy Coss, Chasing the Unicorn (Posi-Tone, 2017), enables a vision that all artists embrace-that elusive and mythical state of total expression attained by only an elite few, that which not only presents beauty and passion to the universe, but is integrated into the ...
Bill Evans: Another Time
About a year ago, I received an email from Dr. Jan Dropvat in the Netherlands. Jan is a major Bill Evans collector, and he told me about a rare recording made of an Evans concert performance on June 22, 1968 at the Netherlands Radio Union (NRU) VARA Studio 8 in Hilversum. I have a vast Evans ...
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