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Steve Swell: Kanreki: Reflection & Renewal
by John Sharpe
To mark his sixtieth birthday (December 6, 2014), trombonist Steve Swell, long the pre-eminent trombonist on the NYC free jazz scene, invokes the Japanese custom of Kanreki. Although it is said to signal both a rebirth and a handing on of responsibilities, Swell shows no signs of allowing the occasion to inhibit his ambition. Over the ...
Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)
By Darius Jones
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2015
Track listing: Two Worlds, One Soul; Chanteuse in Blue; Universal Translator; Beneath the Skin (we are already one); I Can't Keep From Weeping; Quand vient la nuit.
Will Mason Ensemble: Beams of the Huge Night
by Karl Ackermann
New York City resident Will Mason, while pursuing a Ph.D. in music at Columbia University, took the time to submerge himself in the most Spartan and remote conditions of his native Maine for the inspirations of nature that become manifest in Beams of the Huge Night. The drummer and composer assembled an unusually populated septet to ...
Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)
by Alberto Bazzurro
La Brigitte del titolo è Brigitte Fontaine, artista “totale" (cantante, poetessa e altro ancora) francese, oggi settantaseienne, che fra le tante esternazioni del suo talento nel 1970 registrò un album, Comme à la radio, con l'Art Ensemble of Chicago. A lei il trentasettenne altoista Darius Jones, nativo della Virginia, dedica questo suo nuovo lavoro, per il ...
Bologna Jazz Festival 2015
by Libero Farnè
Compie dieci anni il “nuovo" festival di Bologna, proteso a rinverdire i fasti dello storico festival che chiuse i battenti nel 1975, al quale seguirono negli anni Ottanta e Novanta vari tentativi di ripresa presto falliti. Organizzata dall'associazione Bologna in Musica, questa edizione consolida la formula avviata negli anni passati, coprendo un intero mese di programmazione ...
Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation
by Mark Corroto
Growing up in a neighborhood, how do you get from, “Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!" to “Congratulations, Mr. Mitchell, on your son winning the Doris Duke Impact award and being named a Pew Fellow"? We are talking about the musical, not the suburban neighborhood here and in seemingly a blink of an eye, ...
SLD Trio: Anfitrion
by Jakob Baekgaard
A piano trio without a leader? The concept is not unknown, but the norm in jazz is that a trio has a leader. Even pianist Bill Evans' trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, famous for dissolving the fixed hierarchy in a trio setting, was formally presented as the Bill Evans trio.
Darius Jones' New Album To Be Released August 21 On AUM Fidelity
On August 21, 2015, AUM Fidelity will release alto saxophonist-composer Darius Jones' new album, the 5th installment in his ongoing Man'ish Boy epic. This acclaimed series began in 2009 with his debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing), and shall be comprised of nine albums. This release arrives soundly at the mid-way point with aplomb. ...
Matthew Shipp & Mat Walerian Duo / The Uppercut: Live At Okuden
by Mark Corroto
Jane Austen was mistaken when she wrote “Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable." Passing away at the age of 41 in 1817, she would not have had the opportunity to hear either jazz, nor the music of Matthew Shipp and Mat Walerian. The surprise here ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The provocative piano of Matthew Shipp
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring pianist Matthew Shipp, who's coming to St. Louis for a duo concert with bassist Michael Bisio that will be presented by New Music Circle next Saturday, March 28 at The Stage at KDHX. Shipp, who played here most recently in 2011 at 560 Music Center, emerged ...
