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Lisanne Tremblay: Violinization
by Dan McClenaghan
Say “jazz" and the musical instrument that comes to mind might be the saxophone or the trumpet. Say “classical" and it's probably the violin. But there's a long history of players of that have taken that quintessentially classical instrument and moved into the jazz/improvised music world: Stephane Grappelli (1909-1997) and his swinging Quintette du Hot Club ...
Loss Of A Quiet Giant: Will Connell 1938-2014
By John Pietaro I was heartily saddened by the sudden unexpected phone call: downtown’s unsung hero of Free Jazz, Will Connell, Jr., was hospitalized and non-responsive. Immediately the jazz and new music community rallied and the outpouring of love for Will was apparent. We’d all been preparing for his big moment at the front of the ...
William Hooker & Liudas Mockūnas: Live at Vilnius Jazz Festival
by Mark Corroto
Did somebody say “bring it?" Must have, because the combination of muscleman drummer William Hooker and Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas surely delivers the goods in this 53-minute duo improvisation performance at the Vilnius Jazz Festival in October 2013.The four lengthy tracks are part of a continuous set the two seared into their audience's ears. ...
Tatsuya Nakatani, Shane Perlowin: Anatomy of a Moment
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un'improvvisazione fortemente strutturata, di carattere non necessariamente jazzistico (semmai, per riferimenti linguistici, fra il country-blues e, più marginalmente, il contemporaneo) contrassegna quest'ottimo album del duo composto dal chitarrista di Asheville (North Carolina) Shane Perlowin e dal percussionista- rumorista giapponese (di Osaka, ma ormai di stanza in Pennsylvania) Tatsuya Nakatani, già attivo, fra gli altri, accanto a ...
Juhani Aaltonen: To Future Memories
by Dan McClenaghan
Helsinki-based TUM Records, launched in 2003, “promotes more experienced musicians whose work is not favored by commercial trends of our time." The label is especially supportive of the freer end of jazz's spectrum, offering up albums like Kolibri by Finish pianist/harpist Iro Haarla, violinist Billy Bang's Da Bang, and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's Occupy the World, ...
Da Bang!
By Billy Bang
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Da Bang; Guinea; Daydreams; Law Years; All Blues; St Thomas.
Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/Live 2006-2012
by Mark Corroto
A box set that includes over nine hours of one musician's output could be considered indulgent. Indulgent yes, unless that musician's last name is Parker. Certainly the family of Parker we're talking about includes the bebop innovator Charlie Parker, free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker, and jazz padrone William Parker . The latter Parker is a bassist, ...
Samo Salamon: Stretching Out
by Jakob Baekgaard
Cosmopolitan is a term that is often used to describe musicians, but in the case of Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon, it is certainly a description that fits. Salamon has turned the restless nature of the travelling musician into an aesthetic strategy and has worked with two different quartets that represent his different musical ...
Take Five With Cheryl Pyle
by AAJ Staff
Meet Cheryl Pyle:The versatile flutist Cheryl Pyle received her BA in Music from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College in 1974. Her teachers included Merrill Jordan, Janet Maestre, Francis Watson, and Jayn Rosenfeld. She took Master classes with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, and James ...
Billy Bang: Da Bang!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da Bang!, registrato il 2 e 3 febbraio a Helsinki, è con tutta probabilità l'ultima registrazione del violinista Billy Bang, deceduto solo due mesi più tardi a New York per un male incurabile. Nel solito elegante libretto che accompagna le pubblicazioni TUM Records sono riportati alcuni brevi poemi declamati dagli stessi autori (Amiri Baraka il più ...
