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Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice
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 ...
David Bowie Jazzed: Ten Essential Bowie Covers
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 ...
Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes
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 ...
Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles
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 ...
Fano Jazz by the Sea 2024
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, ...
Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet
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 ...
Simon Nabatov 3 + 2: Verbs
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. ...
Nighttime Creatures
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Nighttime Creatures; C.B. the Time Traveler; Cloud House; Astral Light of Alarid; Lady of the Lavender Mist; Land Here; Ringleader; Big Weirdo; Wrong Door for Rocket Fuel; Tristeza; Run.
Nighttime Creatures
Album: Nighttime Creatures
By Angelica Sanchez
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:14
Notable Releases from Christian Dillingham and Others
by Jerome Wilson
Here is a look at some notable albums released in the latter half of 2023. Ilya Dynov Bridges Self-Produced 2023 Drummer Ilya Dynov leads a small group session of straight-ahead jazz played with an edge and swinging deftness. The music runs the gamut from the rolling urgency ...
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