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ECM @ 50
by Mark Sullivan
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of German record label ECM Records. Since its founding by Manfred Eicher the label has maintained unwavering standards of excellence, characterized by an unmistakable visual identity and rigorous production values. In addition to some 20 concerts featuring ECM artists, the 2019 Big Ears Festival (full review here) also hosted an “ECM ...
Sesto Jazz 2019
by Neri Pollastri
Sesto Jazz 2019 Teatro della Limonaia Sesto Fiorentino 1-3.3.2019 Piccolo ma con proposte altamente qualificate, Sesto Jazz si è anche quest'anno articolato su tre appuntamenti nella suggestiva cornice del Teatro della Limonaia, spazio dedicato all'avanguardia artistica e alla sperimentazione della cittadina satellite di Firenze. La prima serata, che ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Mark Corroto
The Transitory Poems might be the first improvised solo piano recording accomplished by a pair of pianists. Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn are 21st century masters and descendants from the likes of Cecil Taylor, Keith Jarrett, Andrew Hill, Anthony Davis, and Paul Bley. This live duo recording, from 2018 in Budapest, is an act of improvisatory ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Mike Jurkovic
Perhaps curiously or perhaps purposely for these two inspired alumni of Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory, The Transitory Poems enters existence with the anticipatory, lets-get-acquainted improvisation “Life Line (Seven Tensions)," before each pianist's creative wanderlust and imagination takes hold and the music becomes a ranging, raging real-time white-hot collaborative statement. Recorded live at the Franz ...
Brilliant Corners 2019
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab Belfast, N. Ireland March 2-9, 2019 For many years the words brilliant, jazz and Belfast rarely appeared in the same sentence. That all changed in 2013 when music promoters Moving On Music launched Brilliant Corners, subtitled A Festival of Jazz in Belfast. Since then, ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Marilyn Mazur, Echoes of Zoo and More
by Ludovico Granvassu
New releases keep coming at an exciting place and Mondo Jazz obliges, sharing tons of exicting new releases, in particular celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and its spiritual offspring as well as some great European projects. Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 ...
Dan Weiss Starebaby Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
by BIMHUIS
Alongside jazz and Indian music, Dan Weiss is equally at home in metal and electronica. The stark contrasts, but also the similarities, between these worlds fuel his band Starebaby. On the eponymous album, Weiss and co. have created fascinating works, sometimes dark and complex and sometimes dreamy and cinematic, with for example a track dedicated to ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Dan McClenaghan
The seed that started The Transitory Poems, the two piano set from Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, was planted in 2002, when the two pianists played in saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's band, Note Factory, contributing to Song for My Sister (Pi Recordings, 2002). At that time Taborn and Iyer fell into the “exciting young lions" category, and ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Luca Canini
Quattro mani, due pianisti. Vijay Iyer e Craig Taborn. Sullo stesso palco, quello della Franz List Academy di Budapest, nel marzo di un anno fa. Un incontro ravvicinato, non il primo (e nemmeno l'ultimo: in arrivo una lunga serie di date al di qua e al di là dell'Atlantico), al quale Manfred Eicher e l'ECM hanno ...
Craig Taborn at Sonic Lab
by Ian Patterson
Craig Taborn Sonic Lab. Sonic Arts Research Centre Brilliant Corners Belfast, N. Ireland February 16, 2019 The launch of the seventh edition of Brilliant Corners--Belfast's only jazz festival--saw Craig Taborn make his first appearance here in nearly a decade, and his first solo gig in this city of just under ...
