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Ionisation: Galen
by Libero Farnè
Il panorama dell'attuale jazz svizzero, forse meno appartato di un tempo, è ricco di proposte avanzate e ben documentate su disco. In esso il giovane batterista Jonas Imhof s'inserisce perseguendo un avant jazz non particolarmente innovativo e sostanzioso, che ricerca tuttavia con grande coerenza classici equilibri, sonorità rotonde e un incedere ponderato. In questo disco Imhof ...
Inside Jazz Quartet: Portraits
by Neri Pollastri
Un quartetto paritetico composto da musicisti di esperienza e riconosciuto valore mette in scena brani di alcuni dei più importanti protagonisti del jazz moderno quali sono Steve Swallow e Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk e Carla Bley, per arrivare fino a Yusef Lateef. Non c'è invero nulla di “rivoluzionario," né di particolarmente “innovativo" nell'album, ...
NEA Jazz Masters 2015 Class
Initiated in 1982, the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the nation’s highest honor given to those who have devoted their lives and careers to jazz, an art form uniquely rooted in American history and culture. Described by The New York Times as a “rare public accolade for jazz”, the recipients represent a wide variety of musical ...
NEA Jazz Masters: Carla Bley
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced next year’s NEA Jazz Masters. They are composer, pianist,arranger and bandleader Carla Bley (pictured); saxophonists George Coleman and Charles Lloyd; and—for jazz advocacy—Joe Segal, whose Jazz Showcase in Chicago has presented the music for more than 60 years. They will receive their awards at Lincoln Center in New ...
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 ...
Awakening Orchestra: Vol. 1: This Is Not the Answer
by Karl Ackermann
Connecticut native Kyle Saulnier is both a life-long student and a working teacher of jazz. The multi-instrumentalist and composer leads the 20-piece Awakening Orchestra's debut, This Is Not the Answer and it is as rare an achievement as Carla Bley's historic Escalator Over The Hill (ECM, 1971). The latter work--more jazz-operetta in orientation and prescribed in ...
Jazz Vocals April
by C. Michael Bailey
Writer's note: Music writing is an avocation. It is not what I do for a living. It exists as that undertaking I do for the satisfaction of possibly educating others about this single essential art. But the reality is I have less and less time to write. As a result, I am limiting my writing to ...
Zeno De Rossi Trio “Kepos”
by Neri Pollastri
Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 25.01.14 Gli appuntamenti con Zeno De Rossi sono un classico del Jazz Club fiorentino, sia perché il batterista è parte di numerosi gruppi di alto livello, sia perché è comunque molto apprezzato dai frequentatori del locale. Inevitabile, quindi, che dopo essere passato nella prima ...
Sam Rivers: Contrasts
by John Kelman
In a significant discography now approaching forty titles as a leader across five decades, Contrasts stands out as the only recording that left-of-center saxophonist/flautist Sam Rivers led for ECM. Originally released in 1980 on vinyl and previously unavailable on CD, it is finally seeing the light of day again as part of the label's Re:solutions series--and ...
Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra
by John Kelman
While there is still a handful of ECM titles from vibraphonist Gary Burton that remain unreleased on CD, perhaps the most unique of the bunch is Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra, originally issued by the German label in 1974 and the first of two collaborations with Zimbabwe-born, British-resident composer/pianist/trombonist Michael Gibbs. The similarly intriguing ...
