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Just Because: Evans, Konitz, NHØP & Dawson
In the fall of 1965 pianist Bill Evans, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, bassist Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen and drummer Alan Dawson toured parts of Western Europe. It was both a time of Cold War tension and a time when jazz enjoyed popularity in every part of the continent. In countries behind the Iron Curtain, jazz devotees ...
Luther Thomas: In Denmark
by Jakob Baekgaard
Denmark has a long tradition of jazz immigration and in the land where the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen was born, it is truly a musical fairy tale that such great artists as saxophonists Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz have lived and worked in the country, along with pianists like Kenny Drew and Horace ...
Emanuele Maniscalco, Francesco Bigoni, Mark Solborg: Maniscalco Bigoni Solborg
by Vincenzo Roggero
Potremmo definirla con un termine di frequente usato e talvolta abusato improvvisazione da camera, per la pacatezza dell'ambientazione sonora, per la cura maniacale delle dinamiche, per l'assoluto controllo degli strumenti mai sopra le righe, per il rigore formale che pervade l'opera. Potremmo ma... sarebbe un torto nei confronti di un lavoro che va ben oltre i ...
Masabumi Kikuchi / Ben Street / Thomas Morgan / Kresten Osgood
by Jakob Baekgaard
The German poet, philosopher and literary critic Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) had an affinity for the fragment as an art form and in his Athenaeumsfragment 206, he wrote about it, saying that: [a] fragment, like a small work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself ...
Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan at DR Koncerthuset Copenhagen
by Henning Bolte
Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan DR Koncerthuset (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Balladeering tour Copenhagen, DenmarkMay 15, 2015 In Copenhagen on May 15th, at the new concert hall of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation: acclaimed Danish film director Jørgen Leth welcomed an audience of 800 spectators to announce the ...
Taylor's Universe: From Scratch
by Dave Wayne
If nothing else, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and studio rat Robin Taylor is consistent. Stylistically, he's done it all. His recordings-all self-produced and issued on his own Marvel of Beauty imprint-over the past two decades encompass everything from ambient soundscapes to free improvisation to straight-up hard rock. The past decade or so finds Taylor working exclusively with what ...
Jakob Bro: Gefion
by Vincenzo Roggero
I primi centottanta secondi sono quasi impercettibili. Non è una questione di volume, ma di estetica, di dichiarazione di intenti. Jakob Bro si presenta così in Gefion sua prima fatica discografica per ECM, il silenzio, lo spazio, il suono, il Rainbow Studio di Oslo come compagni di viaggio al pari del batterista Jon Christensen e del ...
Ibrahim Electric: Rumours from Outer Space
by Vincenzo Roggero
Una chitarra elettrica Telecaster, un organo Hammond B3, una batteria e il viaggio nello spazio ha inizio. I tre astronauti hanno le sembianze di avventurosi musicisti danesi e il nome del power trio che li rappresenta la dice lunga sulle traiettorie spaziali percorse in questo Rumours from Outer Space. Ossia un crogiolo di ...
Svend Asmussen: Embraceable
by Chris Mosey
In 1987 when he was a young man of 70, Svend Asmussen played a gig in a small club in Paris. This year, on the eve of his 100th birthday, the Danish violinist rediscovered a tape made of the evening for a Parisian radio station. He says: I assumed it would be just another radio show ...
Sigurdur Flosason and Kjeld Lauritsen: Nightfall
by Chris Mosey
Icelandic saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason gets a pretty unique sound out of his instrument. His silky, rhapsodic style of playing harks back to Johnny Hodges but with more bite. There are only the very faintest echoes of Charlie Parker and hardly any of John Coltrane. Yet Flosason is both inventive and soulful. This is ...


