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Ultraviolet

Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Matador; Ultraviolet; Disorder II; The Wait; Sorrow; Aberdeen; Evolution; Disorder I; Reconstruction.

Article: Interview

Simone Guiducci: il ritorno del Gramelot

Read "Simone Guiducci: il ritorno del Gramelot" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il recente Mantova Jazz Festival ha visto il ritorno del Gramelot Ensemble di Simone Guiducci, uno dei gruppi più originali del jazz italiano nell'ultimo trentennio. Dopo una lunga pausa, il chitarrista e leader lombardo ha rimesso assieme i membri storici della formazione per quella che non è una riunione celebrativa ma un ritorno in piena regola. ...

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Article: Album Review

The Bad Plus: Complex Emotions

Read "Complex Emotions" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


For those out there who may have inadvertently thought The Bad Plus had nothing major left to say after two-plus decades of saying major things, guess again. Because Complex Emotions--their sixteenth statement of purpose--doubles down and ups a hundred. Proof positive is how guitarist Ben Monder's valedictory “LiPo"--equal parts biblical wind and prairie sandstorm--sleigh ...

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Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

Read "Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

David Bowie Jazzed: Ten Essential Bowie Covers

Read "David Bowie Jazzed: Ten Essential Bowie Covers" reviewed by Ian Patterson


One of the measures of a great artist is the number of covers they have inspired. Covers of David Bowie songs are not in short supply; Blondie, The White Stripes, The Cure, Philip Glass, Nirvana, Bauhaus, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, to name just a handful, have all paid homage to ...

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Article: Album Review

Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes

Read "Axes" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


La spinta avventurosa che ha animato la musica del Blend 3 fin dal 2017 (due anni dopo il primo disco Lubok, seguito dal progetto orchestrale Four Winds e da Songs and Poems con Beatrice Arrigoni) trova nuove e palpitanti forma d'espressione. Nel nuovo disco il trio riformula alcune prospettive di base inglobando il formidabile ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles

Read "Zealous Angles" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Among 2024's contenders for the most tireless and ambitious pianists in creative music, one has to put Matt Mitchell near the top of the list. When he is not working as a sideman alongside other pathbreaking musicians like Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Darius Jones or Kim Cass, he is busy crafting his own idiosyncratic compositions and ...

Article: Live Review

Fano Jazz by the Sea 2024

Read "Fano Jazz by the Sea 2024" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Varie sedi Fano Jazz by the Sea 2024 Fano 20--28 luglio 2024 La trentaduesima edizione di Fano Jazz by the Sea ha in gran parte confermato l'impostazione consolidata del festival marchigiano, a cominciare da una programmazione artistica che alterna nomi nuovi del panorama internazionale, procurando sorprese impreviste, e protagonisti di peso, ...

Article: Album Review

Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet

Read "Ultraviolet" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Aveva spiazzato tutti con Focus, album del 2019 nel quale riuniva alcuni degli improvvisatori più in vista della scena jazz statunitense, in controtendenza rispetto alla sua fama di produttore e songwriter per leggende della musica pop, rock, R&B e country, di vincitore grammy e di compositore per importanti campagne pubblicitarie. Parliamo di Billy Mohler, bassista dai ...

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Article: Album Review

Simon Nabatov 3 + 2: Verbs

Read "Verbs" reviewed by John Sharpe


What constitutes a composition? German-based Russian-born pianist Simon Nabatov makes a convincing case that a simple verbal instruction can suffice on Verbs. It is not a claim he makes himself, but the six supposed improvisations each mines such a distinctive seam that, although spontaneously conceived without melody or other formal arrangement, the initial proposition proves enough. ...


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