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Jeff Parker: Reinventing Tradition
by Jakob Baekgaard
Is there such a thing as a Chicago sound? Back in the year 2000, a compilation was released that tried to portray a new and exciting musical scene. The album was called Chicago 2018... It's Gonna Change and it highlighted a brilliant mixture of free jazz, electronica, post-rock, art pop and experimental folk music. Of the ...
Yoni Kretzmer: Five
by John Sharpe
NYC-based Israeli saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer has pulled together a dynamite cast for the debut of his quintet. Kretzmer's thoughtfully arranged compositions engender classic small group free jazz by what comes across as a little big band. It's the sort of session you might have found on the Black Saint label in its heyday, but given a ...
Darius Jones, Mara Rosenbloom, Christian McBride, Tom Harrell & Leon Parker
by Martin Longley
The Darius Jones Quintet/The Mara Rosenbloom Trio Ibeam June 13, 2016 This appealing double bill made a Monday night visit to Ibeam a certainty, even if only for a select-sized audience. This musician-orientated room in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn is completely dedicated to the activity of performance, without a ...
Avram Fefer's Big Picture Holiday: Shimmer And Melt
by Mark Corroto
Let's rescue the musical descriptor 'fusion,' a pejorative word used in jazz circles to connote a work of lesser weight and significance. We don't use that word when the jazz fusion is carried out by Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, and in this case saxophonist Avram Fefer. His assemblage called Big Picture Holiday merges not just jazz ...
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1
by Karl Ackermann
In the past twelve-month period, composer, electronic artist and cornet virtuoso Rob Mazurek has lead on a half-dozen or so different releases. For the most part, each has featured different line ups and formations from solo efforts to large ensembles and each has garnered enough superlatives to tax the thesaurus. And yet again, Mazurek has raised ...
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris: Possible Universe (Conduction 192)
by Mark Corroto
With the death of jazzman Lawrence D. “Butch" Morris in 2013, we close the book on one of the most idiosyncratic composers, improvisors, conductors ever to work in creative music. His musical trajectory from a 1970s free jazz cornetist to the originator of his trademark 'Conductions' has been the stuff of legends. Under his baton, he ...
Chicago Underground Duo al Pinocchio Live Jazz
by Neri Pollastri
Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 14.02.2015. Rob Mazurek frequenta spesso il nostro paese e a Firenze in particolare ha una folta schiera di estimatori, creatasi anche grazie al Chicago Underground Duo con Chad Taylor. Il suo ritorno al Pinocchio, perciò, non poteva essere che salutato con entusiasmo, reso tangibile da ...
Chicago Underground Duo al Carambolage di Bolzano
by Giuseppe Segala
Piccolo Teatro Carambolage Bolzano 9 febbraio 2015 Lo spazio del Carambolage di Bolzano, piccolo teatro dedicato spesso al cabaret, è ideale anche per la musica. Lo ha dimostrato la pregevole programmazione attuata da Vittorio Albani nell'arco di una decina di anni in cui sono passati tanti paladini del jazz ...
Dialoghi, Jazz Per Due - 17a Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
Pavia, 02-12.02.2015 Solitamente, la rassegna pavese Dialoghi -Jazz per Due si svolge nel mese di Marzo, e si articola in quattro concerti cadenzati con frequenza settimanale. Quest'anno, complice il desiderio di proporre il duo Uri Caine-Mario Brunello, che aveva programmato una mini-tournée di una settimana per inizio febbraio, il calendario ...
Digital Primitives: Lipsomuch & Soul Searchin'
by Enrico Bettinello
Nella loro storia i Digital Primitives non hanno inciso molti dischi: questo doppio che raccoglie Lipsomuch & Soul Searchin' (tra l'altro contenente registrazioni del 2011) è solo il terzo della serie, ma in tutta onestà non ci sentiamo di dire che la scelta -sempre che di scelta si tratti -sia in qualche modo scriteriata, non solo ...
