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Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y--Diz and Bird: Bebop Today
by Budd Kopman
Jazz in July FestivalBird & Diz: Bebop Today92nd Street YNew York, NYJuly 19, 2007 The Jazz in July series, which runs from Tuesday through Thursday for two weeks, is a venerable institution that has existed for the past twenty years. In the past, pianist Dick Hyman was the ...
Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations II
by Budd Kopman
At least one underlying context of the ECM label has been to present jazz where the line between improvisation and composition/arrangement is blurred. When the improvisations are not “jazzy" as the term is commonly understood, it begins to be difficult to discern where the composition ends and the improvisation begins. This is not ...
Louis Sclavis: L'imparfait des langues
by Budd Kopman
L'imparfait des langues represents an attempt by reedman Louis Sclavis to challenge himself compositionally by incorporating new features into his working musical vocabulary while increasing the level of unpredictability. The resulting work is, perhaps surprisingly, the closest thing to a “jazz" album that he has produced. While encouraging change, Sclavis nevertheless has a ...
David Torn: Prezens
by Budd Kopman
With Prezens, guitarist and electronics magician David Torn returns to ECM with his first album since Cloud About Mercury (ECM, 1987). In the intervening twenty-year absence, Torn has made a number of albums for other labels, and has also composed movie soundtracks. The music was created by a working band that spent years ...
Gianluigi Trovesi: Vaghissimo Ritratto
by Budd Kopman
Gianluigi Trovesi's music features a mixture of styles that is the result of exposure to and reverence of European music, specifically Italian (both popular and classical) and American jazz. Fugace (ECM, 2003) stressed the jazz aspect, particularly its blues origins, as well as its collision with and effect on European music, specifically Italian popular music.
Ilmiliekki Quartet: Take It With Me
by Budd Kopman
A good example of the breadth and the wonder of jazz is the world of difference that exists in the music, even in a small country like Finland. Specifically, the Five Corners Quintet inhabits an entirely different planet than the Ilmiliekki Quartet as represented by March of the Alpha Males (TUM, 2003) and Take It With ...
Emil de Waal: Live +
by Budd Kopman
Multi-instrumentalist Emil de Waal's Live + represents both the mirror image and logical continuation of his previous release, Emil de Waal + (RMK Records, 2005). The earlier record used the computer as a member of the band in a studio setting. This offering takes the concept further by recording his jazz electronic live shows in Denmark, ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live At Smoke
by Budd Kopman
In jazz, the mainstream is defined by what the music is not, or lacks. It is jazz as a style, rather than an aesthetic, and is not a “modern" concept. Many musicians of the Swing era, when confronted with the avant-garde named bebop, chose, for many reasons, to keep playing what they knew, rather than join ...
Claudio Scolari: Dreams And Emotions Of City
by Budd Kopman
Dreams And Emotions Of City is drummer/percussionist Claudio Scolari's third release in as many years, showing a deepening exploration of the intersection of music and emotions. 2005's Reflex and 2006's The My Fourteen Songs, both also released on Principal Records, were primarily music as emotional expression, sound painting in the abstract. Dreams And ...
Umbria Jazz 07 at Birdland Presents: Francesco Cafiso and "Charlie Parker with Strings"
by Budd Kopman
Umbria Jazz 07--New York: Francesco Cafiso and Charlie Parker with StringsBirdlandNew York CitySaturday, June 30, 2007 Enzo Capua of Umbria Jazz teamed up with the Italian Cultural Institute and Birdland to present a project honoring the heralded and seminal Charlie Parker recordings with strings originally produced on Clef (later Verve) ...
