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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, ...
Erik Friedlander: Oscalypso
by Troy Collins
As a veteran of the fertile 1990s Downtown NYC scene, cellist Erik Friedlander has been involved in myriad creative endeavors, including innovative sideman work with Dave Douglas and John Zorn, while leading his own unique ensembles, such as Chimera and Topaz. More recently, Friedlander has been performing solo and developing projects inspired by rural Americana, but ...
The Day the Music Died
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
On one of my infrequent trips outside the 'Dome recently, I stopped at a convenience store for a cold Coke Zero when I noticed a man about my age (48. 52, in heels) driving a red 1988 Pontiac Trans Am and blasting Whitesnake's “Here I Go Again" on his car stereo. He wore Zubaz workout pants ...
Dave Douglas al Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo
by Paolo Peviani
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo 14.10.2015 Grazie alla collaborazione di Bergamo Scienza, manifestazione di divulgazione scientifica aperta anche al mondo dello spettacolo e della musica, il festival Bergamo Jazz ha presentato alla città il suo nuovo direttore artistico, Dave Douglas. Non era la prima volta che il trombettista di Montclair si esibiva ...
Poker di Jon Irabagon
by Stefano Merighi
Il jazz di oggi è sicuramente policentrico, continuando in questo la sua stratificata tradizione. Sempre più spazio trovano artisti americani di origini diverse. Tra essi, il sassofonista Jon Irabagon (sangue filippino) è emerso da un decennio con una forza dirompente, conseguenza di una preparazione enciclopedica, tradotta abilmente in un'ampia gamma di situazioni sonore.
Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart
by Vincenzo Roggero
L'attuale Dave Douglas Quintet prese forma nel 2012 con l'album Be Still, registrato per commemorare la scomparsa della madre del leader e incentrato su sei folk song eseguite durante la cerimonia funebre. Nel 2013 fece seguito Time Travel, album dai connotati più tipicamente jazzistici, seppur, come nello stile di Douglas, sempre avventuroso. Sulla stessa lunghezza d'onda ...
Two Simultaneous Jon Irabagon Releases: Quartet & Solo
by Mark Sullivan
Saxophonist Jon Irabagon has worked in a wide variety of settings, including Mostly Other People Do The Killing, the Mary Halvorson Quintet, Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, and the Dave Douglas Quintet. For the 2015 release on his own Irabbagast Records label he released two records on the same day: Behind the Sky, with his quartet plus ...
Jon Irabagon: Behind The Sky
by Dan Bilawsky
The grieving process is a personal journey and an act of discovery, allowing individuals to truly appreciate what was, while awakening to the reality of what is. And while no two people mourn in the exact same fashion, mourning itself, no matter the method, is almost always a cathartic experience. In the case of saxophonist Jon ...
Take Five with Rob Saffer of the Creative Music Foundation
by AAJ Staff
In this installment of Take Five we hear from Executive Director Rob Saffer of the Creative Music Foundation, an organization founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman. CMS has brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities through their CMS workshops. About the Creative Music Studio Fall ...
Dave Douglas Quintet Returns With "Brazen Heart"
Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas, one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians of our time, has created “a body of work [that] reflects an inveterate engagement with the world, taking inspiration from literature, politics, dance and film, as well as jazz and new-music traditions,” writes Nate Chinen of The New York Times. But Douglas ...
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