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Jazz Musician of the Day: Derek Bailey
All About Jazz is celebrating Derek Bailey's birthday today! Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation musician, he began playing the guitar at the age of ten, going on to study with John Duarte among others. As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, ...
Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
by Mark Corroto
Universal Tonality: The Life And Music Of William Parker Cisco Bradley 384 Pages ISBN: # 978147801014 Duke University Press 2021 Who is William Parker? He is a jazz bassist, yes. But he is also a band leader, composer, writer & poet, community organizer, peace activist, and cultural anthropologist. Cisco ...
Francesca Naibo: Namatoulee
by Angelo Leonardi
La lezione di Derek Bailey, volta a estendere la libera ricerca improvvisata sulla chitarra, è stata esemplare ma pochissimi l'hanno seguita. Se negli Stati Uniti spicca Henry Kaiser nel nostro Paese i nomi si contano sulle dita di una mano ed il ricercatore più coerente e implacabile resta Roberto Zorzi. È quindi sorprendente il debutto di ...
The Art of ILK
by Jakob Baekgaard
Formed in 2007, ILK (an abbreviation of Independent Label of København) is an artist-run label based in Copenhagen, encompassing a collective of 21 adventurous musicians. They started out as the young rebels of the Danish jazz scene but have become the established pioneers of the new Danish avantgarde. If you think of the avantgarde as an ...
Deerhoof: Love-Lore
by Troy Dostert
"Where, in short, are the flying cars?" So asked David Graeber in 2012, in a widely-circulated essay entitled “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit." Graeber, an anthropologist of a decidedly unconventional bent, dedicated much of his academic career to challenging preconceived wisdom concerning the allegedly unlimited potential of capitalist economics and its attendant ...
Tashi Dorji: Stateless
by Gareth Thompson
It was an ambitious move from Bhutan to Asheville, North Carolina, that helped shape Tashi Dorji's musical direction. The guitarist had previously been steeped in classic rock and hair metal, but as a foreign exchange student he soon absorbed punk and free jazz. Two saxophonists in particular, John Zorn and Albert Ayler, inspired Dorji to his ...
Sonoria: Live in Pisa (Alessandro Giachero)
by Giuseppe Segala
Il progetto Sonora, registrato in questo CD dal vivo a Pisa lo scorso anno, rappresenta la focalizzazione del pianista Alessandro Giachero sull'aspetto sonoro della propria ricerca, sul rapporto tra metamorfosi del suono e interiorità. Per un significativo ritratto-intervista del musicista, si veda Alessandro Giachero: consapevolezza e ricerca di Neri Pollastri. Questo lavoro si sviluppa su due ...
Drew Wesely/Kenneth Jimenez/Francisco Mela: Triangulate the Landscape
by Troy Dostert
An interesting trio comprised of a well-established veteran percussionist, Francisco Mela, and two relative newcomers, bassist Kenneth Jimenez and guitarist Drew Wesely, the musicians behind Triangulate the Landscape are engaged in that age-old challenge of free improvisation: how to create a substantial musical conversation that combines separate, independently-determined voices into a larger whole. While the three ...
Gustav Broman - Albin Vesterberg: Ballader
by Jerome Wilson
Bassist Gustav Broman and guitarist Albin Vesterberg are two young Swedish musicians who have been playing together for several years. This CD, a set of intriguing ballad variations, marks the first recorded evidence of their partnership. It shows them to be talented players who work very well together. The original compositions all use the ...
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