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Jacob Anderskov: Granular Alchemy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il giovane pianista e compositore danese Jacob Anderskov è qui alla testa di un lussureggiante quartetto per il resto tutto a stelle e strisce, con Chris Speed, Michael Formanek e Gerald Cleaver, che nell'iniziale “Sediments" ci propone un jazz avanzato, piuttosto diretto, leggibile, ma al tempo stesso elegante, pur con qualche tramatura intestina più increspata e ...
North Sea Jazz Festival: Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2012
by R.J. DeLuke
North Sea Jazz FestivalAhoyRotterdam, The NetherlandsJuly 6-8, 2012The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands seems ideal for a jazz festival. It's a large enough metropolis to hold things of interest for any tourist--arts, culture, architecture, fine eateries, interesting activities--while at the same time being friendly, laidback and manageable. Toss the mammoth ...
Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music For, And By, Dimitri Shostakovich
by Raul d'Gama Rose
To set the record straight: America has not taken a step closer to being more tolerant of any kind of musical rebel. It does not tolerate the one that conforms (for he or she too is a rebel), nor does it tolerate the one who is the objector. Like in every other aspect of life--other than ...
Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich
by AAJ Italy Staff
È impressionante il background del bassista canadese Michael Bates. Musicista hardcore e punk, raffinato contrabbassista jazz, allievo di Yoshio Nagashima (Tokyo Symphony), Tony Falanga e Mark Helias, studioso di Shostakovich, ora attivo a Brooklyn nella pattuglia di compositori-improvvisatori più creativi sulla scena newyorkese. Questo Acrobat prende le mosse proprio da Shostakovich, non già come omaggio stilistico, ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012
by Daniel Lehner
Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1New York, NYJanuary 6, 2012 No one could argue that jazz didn't have a tumultuous 2011. For the better, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding's Grammy for Best New Artist marked the first time a jazz musician was awarded that honor, and veteran ...
Endangered Blood
By Chris Speed
Label: Skirl Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Plunge; Rare; Epistrophy; Elvin Lisbon; K; Tacos At Oscars; Iris; Uri Bird;
Valva; Andrew's Ditty Variation One.
Houseplant
By Chris Speed
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
01. Inkionos; 02. Cahme; 03. Houseplant; 04. FYR; 05. Malomice; 06. Littel; 07. Elight; 08. Naluch; 09. Cadmium Waits; 10. Adbear; 11. Lowers in a Nine Sense; 12. Downsturm.
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The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?
by Troy Collins
Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...
Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light
by Troy Collins
Branching out from his duties in The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, drummer Dave King formed the Dave King Trucking Company to explore a highly personalized take on Americana that he describes as “if the great Nashville bands of the '60s and '70s could improvise and were Coltrane fanatics." Building on this idea, King and company ...
Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy
by Hrayr Attarian
The year 2011 is proving to be a fruitful one for Japanese composer and improviser Satoko Fujii. In addition to a world tour, she has released three albums (all on June 21) on her own Libra record label, each in a different setting and in the company of different musicians. Her only constant companion, through all ...
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