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Simone Graziano: preparato per il futuro
by Neri Pollastri
Era da tempo che Simone Graziano si cimentava dal vivo al piano solo, dopo le sue varie esperienze in trio e con il quintetto/quartetto Frontal, maturando così progressivamente l'esigenza di documentare su disco questo tipo di esperienza artistica. Circa un anno fa si è così recato in studio e ha registrato il materiale per un album, ...
Sylwester Ostrowski: Music As A Celebration Of Life
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Polish saxophonist Sylwester Ostrowski is not only a brilliant musician and producer, but an equally successful cultural promoter. In particular, he is the founder and organizer of the Szczecin Jazz Festival, a celebrated festival he organizes in his native city. As soon as he hit the road after the hiatus forced by the pandemic, we had ...
Catching Up with Willie Nelson
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in October 1999. Willie Nelson is a man of the people. In a single night (the night of this interview), I witnessed Willie sign more autographs and shake more hands (genuinely) than Al Gore has through his entire two terms as Vice ...
Steve Reich: Humans Love to See Other Humans Play Music
by Nenad Georgievski
Steve Reich is one of the most significant composers of the late 20th century. During his lengthy career, he has managed both to provoke and console the music world with his trailblazing works. Drawing on aspects of eighteenth-century classical music, Debussy, Stravinsky, jazz music, ethnic and ritual music including musical occurrences and accidents that happen when ...
Alessandro Sgobbio: la musica come viaggio verso sé stessi
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Non capita spesso di potersi confrontare con musicisti dal profondo livello culturale e dalla caratura internazionale di Alessandro Sgobbio. A pochi mesi dall'uscita di Transparence, disco d'esordio del quartetto Hitra, abbiamo avuto la fortuna di poter discutere con il pianista di origini pugliesi dei temi e delle idee all'origine dei suoi progetti passati, presenti e futuri, ...
Camille Bertault: la sottile arte della sregolatezza
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Dopo aver raggiunto improvvisa notorietà grazie a una geniale versione di “Giant Steps," divenuta virale su Facebook, Camille Bertault si è affermata come una delle musiciste più originali ed eclettiche del momento. Con Le Tigre, il suo terzo album dopo i successi di En Vie e Pas de Geant, Camille Bertault esplora nuovi brillanti scenari.
Camille Bertault: The Fine Art of Breaking Jazz Conventions
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
After achieving overnight notoriety thanks to a dazzling rendition of “Giant Steps" which went viral on Facebook, Camille Bertault has now established herself as one of the most original and genre-defying musicians on the scene. In Le Tigre (Okeh/Sony Music, 2020), her third album after the acclaim garnered by En Vie (Sunnyside Records, 2016) and Pas ...
Sarah McKenzie: il fascino misterioso della composizione
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Secrets of My Heart è il quinto album in studio della cantante, compositrice e pianista di origini australiane Sarah McKenzie. Realizzato nel 2019, questo disco rappresenta una combinazione gioiosa e perturbante di standard jazz di stampo classico e di composizioni inedite, avvolte da una brillante fusione fra jazz, blues e sonorità latine. Approfittando del tour europeo ...
Jack DeJohnette: Bill Evans Legacy
by Franz A. Matzner
Modern Drummer Hall of Fame inductee, drummer and pianist Jack DeJohnette has shaped jazz drumming for decades. A compatriot of illustrious players like Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, and many more, DeJohnette helped shape a new conception of what the drums could bring to ensembles, including adding color, detail, and fluid interplay. His contributions to ...
Olafur Arnalds: Music and Art are Most Important in Times like These
by Nenad Georgievski
Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds has been described as a contemporary composer and synthesist, but that doesn't adequately reflect the alchemy of modern and traditional that he is able to blend on his new record, some kind of peace (Mercury KX, 2020). The album is steeped in reflective and introspective emotions, and themes that provide an underlying ...
