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Ada Montellanico: il jazz militante
by Daniele Vogrig
Jazz. Ma non solo jazz. Dentro e fuori la sua musica pulsa un impegno che negli ultimi anni ha rivoluzionato il modo di intendere e, soprattutto, il modo di vivere collettivamente la comunità jazzistica italiana. Perché intorno ad essa possa fiorire una nuova cultura, nel senso più lato e profondo del termine. Abbiamo ...
23rd Punta Del Este Jazz Festival In Uruguay (Second Night)
by Pablo Reyes
For its second night of music on January 4, the 23rd Punta del Este Jazz Festival in Uruguay welcomed saxophonist Gary Smulyan playing the music of Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan with bassist David Wong, drummer Rodney Green and trumpeter Diego Urcola. Also onstage were the Aaron Diehl trio with Paul Sikivie and Quincy Davis as ...
Live In London Volume II
By Chet Baker
Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD 1: Strollin’; Broken Wing; My Ideal; Stella By Starlight; Down. CD 2: Dolphin Dance; Polka Dots
And Moonbeams; When I fall In Love; Dear Old Stockholm; Just Friends.
Ron Carter: Still Searching for the Right Notes
by Rob Garratt
"People from newspapers and magazines always ask me two things," Ron Carter tells a reverent crowd from a stage in suburban Hong Kong. “What was it like playing with Miles Davis? And why am I still doing this?" He answers the latter enquiry by pointing left and right simultaneously at his two diligent sidemen, pianist Donald ...
Reto Anneler: Stille Post
by James Fleming
Stille Post is a record as spacious as a solar system. Reto Anneler's alto and Cristoph Grab's tenor move around the rhythm section like planets orbiting a distant sun. And when the two horns align, the music glows with the red light of an eclipse, shining down on the spare basslines and pointed drumming of Claudio ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Chet Baker
All About Jazz is celebrating Chet Baker's birthday today! Chesney Henry “Chet" Baker Jr. was raised in a musical household in Oklahoma (his father was a guitarist), and coming of age in Southern California during the bebop era of jazz, Baker found success as a trumpet player in 1951 when he was chosen by Charlie Parker ...
Charlie Parker: Now's The Time
by Karl Ackermann
In the pantheon of jazz saxophonists, Charlie Parker has been among the most transformational of artists, despite not living nearly long enough to fulfill his potential. Parker's lifetime, as a principal architect of bebop, and a self-destructive force, has been documented ad nauseam but his music continues to significantly influence new generations. Since Parker's death in ...
The Complete Jan Akkerman: Focusing on a Life's Work
by John Kelman
He may be largely regarded as the most influential guitarist to emerge from the Netherlands, a country that, bordering on the North Sea, is roughly one-quarter the physical size of England and, with a current number of about seventeen million, has just one-third the population of the UK's largest country. Still, despite garnering major in-country recognition, ...
Tempo di Chet. La versione di Chet Baker
by Giuseppe Segala
Compagnia del Teatro Stabile di Bolzano Paolo Fresu, Dino Rubino, Marco Bardoscia Teatro Comunale Bolzano 8-11.11.2018 Il sipario si apre su una scena che fonde tra loro esterni e interni: ricostruisce un quartiere che potrebbe essere ispirato alla Hermosa Beach degli anni Cinquanta, o alla Central Avenue di ...
