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Ab Baars Trio & NY Guests: Invisible Blow
by Vic Albani
Questa volta la mettiamo giù come un compitino e la scelta, in casi come questo, credetelo, è ovviamente ironica. Per celebrare i venti anni di attività dello splendido trio di Ab Baars, sassofonista olandese più volte passato anche da queste colonne, il leader decise di festeggiare con un sostanzioso tour di concerti che ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today! Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of ...
Andy Sheppard: Tales From the Bristol Underground Jazz Revolution
by Ian Patterson
"Jazz has always been an underground thing. It doesn't have the power and might of opera, but it should," says Andy Sheppard, shortly after the UK premier of Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015) at the Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival. “Everyone in the music industry has a respect for jazz music, and they should, I think, ...
Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life: So Many Roads
by Neri Pollastri
Originaria della Danimarca, la contrabbassista e compositrice Anne Mette Iversen si è giovanissima trasferita a New York per favorire la propria formazione, per poi spostarsi a Berlino. Dopo aver lavorato a lungo con varie formazioni, in particolare con un suo quartetto, qui si cimenta in un contesto più sofisticato dal punto di vista compositivo e orchestrale. ...
I 10 CD nel CD player di... Francesco Chiapperini
by Vincenzo Roggero
01. Charlie Haden -Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse! -1969). Il lirismo della Liberation Orchestra di Charlie Haden e di Carla Bley racconta in maniera moderna lo spirito della guerra civile spagnola attraverso composizioni che trasudano di sofferenza, ma anche di speranza. A cucire il filo del free jazz che unisce i diversi brani del disco spiccano ...
Stanislaw Soyka & The Roger Berg Big Band Release "Swing Revisited"
American swing played with bravado by leading Polish jazzman Stanislaw Soyka and the Roger Berg Big Band. In their rendition, recorded at sessions in Malmö and Warsaw, the artists refreshed jazz standards by Duke Ellington and Ray Charles among others. Swing Revisited is an album by Stanislaw Soyka, a noted Polish jazz singer, and the Roger ...
Larry Coryell: Less Rock, More Jazz
by Todd S. Jenkins
This interview was originally published at All About Jazz in June 2001. A true jazz pioneer, guitarist Larry Coryell was one of the earliest musicians to experiment with the fusion of jazz and rock styles. Originally from Galveston, Texas, Coryell moved to New York in 1965, at a time when the city's music scene ...
Divergence Jazz Orchestra: The Opening Statement
by Jack Bowers
Yet another big-band album to be filed under “p" for “pleasant surprises." Jenna Cave is an Australian composer / arranger whose Opening Statement as leader of the Divergence Jazz Orchestra is remarkably strong and consistently pleasing. While her age isn't given in the album notes or online, a brief search has found that Cave was in ...
Keyboardist Steve McQuarry Presents A Tribute To Carla Bley At SFJAZZ Center, June 5
Oakland-based keyboardist-composer Steve McQuarry and his musician friends had long been enamored of the cutting-edge music of Oakland-born keyboardist-composer Carla Bley. In a conversation a year and a half ago with Bley’s daughter, keyboardist Karen Mantler, he mentioned that he would love to perform some of her mother’s compositions. Mantler talked it over with Bley, and ...
Avanti o indietro?
by Alberto Bazzurro
La più o meno contigua uscita di reperti d'epoca di Jarrett, Osborne e Soft Machine ci induce a una disamina a largo raggio su cos'era e verso dove si muoveva il jazz, pur inteso in senso lato, nell'epoca in cui tanti ragazzi provenienti dal rock più o meno progressivo vi confluivano a frotte. Cercando anche di ...
