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Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Read "Vista Accumulation" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

L'elenco delle formazioni a cui ha prestato i propri servigi è da paura comprendendo, tra gli altri, Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Dave Douglas Quintet, Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, ossia una bella fetta della scena avant jazz statunitense, ma come leader il pianista Matt Mitchell è solo alla seconda prova. Vista Accumulation, che giunge ...

Article: Live Review

Il Claudia Quintet al JAM Festival di Mira

Read "Il Claudia Quintet al JAM Festival di Mira" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

JAM Festival 2016 Teatro di Villa dei Leoni Mira, Venezia 12.03.2016 Il lungo tour europeo del Claudia Quintet ha toccato l'Italia in un'unica data, sabato 12 marzo nell'ambito del JAM Festival di Mira. Giunta alla dodicesima edizione, la rassegna ha assunto un ruolo centrale nella programmazione musicale ...

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Article: Live Review

WDR Jazz Fest 2016

Read "WDR Jazz Fest 2016" reviewed by Phillip Woolever

by Phillip Woolever

WDR Jazz Fest Theatre Munster Münster, Germany January 30, 2016 The multi-stationed broadcaster WDR (West German Radio) is known throughout most of greater Germany as a powerhouse of jazz programming and concert promotion. That lofty reputation was upheld and then some with Jazz Fest 2016, which included a Saturday night with ...

Article: Album Review

Lars Fiil: Frit Fald (Free Fall)

Read "Frit Fald (Free Fall)" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Lars Fiil è un pianista danese non ancora trentenne che ha all'attivo un album di debutto con i fiocchi -Reconsideration è stato nominato per il Danish Music Award -con un quartetto vincitore dell'altrettanto prestigioso Young Danish Jazz Comets. Ma Fiil è anche e soprattutto un pianista/compositore di sorprendente maturità e originalità. Lo dimostra ampiamente con questo ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance

Read "The Distance" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Jazz composers writing for large ensembles have often avoided the label “big band," going back to the Jazz Composer's Orchestra in the '60s, not to mention Sun Ra's Arkestra and the many Swing Era bands that called themselves orchestras. It's an understandable choice, given the unavoidable--and potentially limiting--stylistic associations that come with the big band name. ...

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Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva: This Love

Read "This Love" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler and Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva came together at Lisbon's Culturgest in March 2015 to create This Love. While it's their first duet album, they've been making music together in various groups since 2008, first in the European Movement Jazz Orchestra, an international big band of young up-coming musicians, and later in ...

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Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest 2016

Read "NYC Winter Jazzfest 2016" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

NYC Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 13-17, 2016 If you make the rounds in New York City on any night of the week, during any week of the year, there's always an abundance of quality jazz to hear. But when NYC Winter Jazzfest takes hold, the cup truly runneth over. This massive ...

Article: Interview

A dialogo con Simone Graziano

Read "A dialogo con Simone Graziano" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Simone Graziano, pianista e compositore fiorentino trentacinquenne, è giustamente balzato in primo piano negli ultimi anni grazie soprattutto al suo quintetto Frontal, apprezzato con il primo disco omonimo e nelle performance dal vivo. Della formazione, che ha nel frattempo visto Dan Kinzelman subentrare al posto di Chris Speed, è appena uscito il nuovo CD Trentacinque. Per ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Read "Vista Accumulation" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Growing up in a neighborhood, how do you get from, “Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!" to “Congratulations, Mr. Mitchell, on your son winning the Doris Duke Impact award and being named a Pew Fellow"? We are talking about the musical, not the suburban neighborhood here and in seemingly a blink of an eye, ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Read "Vista Accumulation" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Composer and pianist Matt Mitchell creates haunting and vibrant soundscapes on his second release for Pi Records, Vista Accumulation. The eight, multilayered, originals that comprise the double disc set are organically fluid in structure with a tense ambience and a barely contained fervor within. Saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed opens the stimulating “The Damaged ...


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