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Enrico Rava: Around the Jazz World in 80 Years - The Leader Part -1
by Ludovico Granvassu
In advance of the long-overdue return of Enrico Rava to New York -where he will be taking part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of ECM at Jazz at Lincol Center on 1 and 2 November—here is the first installment of an overview of the career of the grand master of Italian Jazz.
Intervista a Franco Ambrosetti
by Angelo Leonardi
Il 2019 è stato un anno significativo per il trombettista svizzero Franco Ambrosetti. In aprile è stato pubblicato il suo libro autobiografico “La scelta di non scegliere" mentre da poche settimane è uscito Long Waves, il suo ventottesimo disco da leader con un cast stellare comprendente John Scofield, Uri Caine, Scott Colley e Jack DeJohnette.
Stephanie Patton: A Breath of Spring
by C. Michael Bailey
Michael Chabon's alternate history The Yiddish Policemen's Union (HarperCollins, 2007) is set in Sitka, Alaska, located on the southeast portion of Alaska, situated on the west side of Baranof Island and the south half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean. But Sitka is not only notable for its literary allusions; it ...
Giovanni Tommaso: sulle tracce di Miles Davis passando per Kind of Blue
by Paolo Marra
La musica è un modo per ritrovare le proprie origini, le radici perdute. Un giorno Miles Davis si ricorda di quegli “eccezionali gospel" che ascoltava in chiesa da piccolo in Arkansas. Per rivivere quelle sensazioni perdute butta giù un blues di cinque battute con un suono “molto scorrevole." Ma quando entra in studio il 2 marzo ...
Lookout Farm: At Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall: Hamburg 1975
by Chris May
Fasten your seat belt, please. Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach's club date with Lookout Farm barely lets up during an hour of ferocious jazz going on jazz-rock. It's in roughly the same bag as Miles Davis' post-Bitches Brew (CBS, 1970) electric albums, some of which had Liebman in the lineup. The tape lay in the vaults ...
Enrico Rava Special Edition at Teatro Nuovo
by Francesco Martinelli
Enrico Rava Special Edition Pisa Jazz Teatro Nuovo Pisa, Italy Sept. 25 2019 Enrico Rava, the musician who almost single-handedly gave Italian jazz an international profile in the '70s with his recordings, turns 80 this year and celebrates the milestone in the way he knows best: in music. He's ...
Eliane Elias: Chanteuse
by R.J. DeLuke
Eliane Elias has glistened across the global music scene since first coming to the United States in 1981, playing fiery jazz, beautiful pop tunes, and warm and charming music from her native Brazil. She became established as a major jazz pianist. But as her career has grown and her popularity has endured, she's become known as ...
Tommaso Starace: Narrow Escape
by Angelo Leonardi
Com'è noto Tommaso Starace opera prevalentemente nel Regno Unito, dove s'è trasferito a 19 anni diplomandosi al conservatorio di Birmingham e poi conseguendo il master alla Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Da allora è trascorso un ventennio e oggi il sassofonista è tra i migliori jazzmen d'oltremanica, con all'attivo alcuni dischi da leader e decine ...
Italian Jazz
by Bob Osborne
This week we take a look at Italian Jazz with a selection of music from a variety of great players with the main focus being on pianist Enrico Pieranunzi Playlist Enrico Pieranunzi “Amarcord" from Fellini Jazz (C.A.M. Jazz) 00:00 Sebastiano Meloni “Nocturne" from Pictures of a Quartet (Slam Productions) 07:44 Carla Marciano Quartet “Handshake" ...
Chet Baker: Time Unhinged
Chet Baker was a jazz romantic quietly frustrated that the passage of time refused to slow down. The early 1950s was his moment, and the years that followed moved like sand through his hands, leaving him confounded and depressed. Like a movie star who suddenly grows too old for the parts he or she played best, ...
