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Twin Cities
by Andrea Canter
Welcome to the first in a series of Jazz Near You articles where we raise the awareness of advocacy and catalyst organizations whose efforts are making a positive impact on their local jazz communities. This article was co-written by Don Berryman The Jazz Police website launched in spring 2004, initially intending to ...
Save the Date - Febbraio 2015
by Luca Canini
Vacanze finite per Save the Date. Che dopo essersi preso un mese di aspettativa, anche per colpa di un gennaio avarissimo di proposte, si rimette in moto sfornando consigli e dritte a più non posso. Ma prima ci sono un paio di debiti da saldare. A cavallo della fine dell'anno è andata in scena l'edizione numero ...
Simone Graziano: Frontal
by Luigi Sforza
Proveniente da una consolidata preparazione tecnica, in bilico tra sonorità free e influenze di scuola newyorkese, Simone Graziano -pianista e compositore toscano -consolida in Frontal -seconda esperienza discografica da leader -una affinata maturità stilistica. A capo di un eccezionale quintetto registra esecuzioni indubbiamente ispirate. La musica si muove perfetta tra la ricercatezza delle parti obbligate ...
Jakob Bro: A Happy Unintended Consequence with Kenny Wheeler
by Henning Bolte
A while ago a group of Danish musicians recorded an album entitled “Unintended Consequences." It was an enterprise to play music in a non-intentional way which demanded dealing with the paradox of intending something unintended. Sometimes however unintended consequences can “just happen" due to circumstances. That is what Danish guitarist Jakob Bro experienced a time ago. ...
Memories in Motian
by Zeno De Rossi
Poco dopo aver appreso la triste notizia della morte di Paul Motian, avvenuta il 22 novembre 2011, ho sentito la forte esigenza di ri-tuffarmi in profondità nella sua musica. In seguito, dopo aver letto un toccante scritto di Ellery Eskelin (pubblicato sul suo sito e riportato qui di seguito), pensai che sarebbe stato ...
Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue
by Troy Collins
In the past few years, Mary Halvorson, already an acclaimed member of New York's Downtown improv scene, has been earning widespread recognition as a bandleader and composer of note. Her writing displays an increasing sophistication with each new effort, revealing a compositional maturity as distinctive as her idiosyncratic guitar technique.Her latest ensemble, Reverse Blue, ...
Jazz in the Catskills
As a native son of Woodstock NY, best known to many over the past five decades as the namesake of a rock music festival that was held 60 miles away as the crows fly, an announcement this week came as welcome news. A Woodstock Jazz Festival is scheduled the evening of October 4 at the Bearsville ...
Cristina Zavalloni: The Soul Factor
by Libero Farnè
In concomitanza di Umbria Jazz 14, fra le iniziative collaterali del festival grande rilievo è stato dato alla presentazione dell'ultima fatica discografica di Cristina Zavalloni, concepita in stretta collaborazione con Uri Caine. Per l'occasione erano presenti la stessa Zavalloni e i due produttori: Enzo Capua e Giandomenico Ciaramella. The Soul Factor, registrato in studio a New ...
Chris Speed: Really OK
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist, clarinetist, Chris Speed has been in the thick of things the past several decades. He's been a co-conspirator in trendsetting ensembles led by alto saxophonists, composers Tim Berne, John Zorn, and leading-edge outfits Claudia Quintet and Pachora amid a host of other noteworthy projects. Speed's prominence in the newer realm of jazz and jazz improvisation ...
