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Bray Jazz Festival 2019
by Ian Patterson
Bray Jazz Festival Various venues Bray, Ireland May 3-5, 2019 The May Bank Holiday weekend is always a festive occasion in Bray, but this year was of particular note as the Bray Jazz Festival celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Founded by Dorothy and George Jacob in response to a ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: War Orphans
by Dan McClenaghan
Manfred Eicher started ECM Records in 1969. Fifty years later, in 2019, with over 1500 releases to its name, the label continues to offer up compelling and unclassifiable music. And since the catalog is deep, and early-in-the-effort recordings have become harder to find, ECM periodically re-releases some of these gems, tagging them Touchstones. Early ...
Yonathan Avishai: Joys and Solitudes
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo due dischi pubblicati con altre etichette, Yonathan Avishai entra nella scuderia Ecm riproponendo il trio di Modern Times, con cui aveva debuttato nel 2015. Nato a Tel Aviv nel 1977, da madre francese e padre israeliano, il pianista è in Francia dal 2001. Per un decennio ha vissuto a Bordeaux, dove ha studiato ...
European Jazz Conference 2018
by Ian Patterson
European Jazz Conference 2018 Centro Cultural de Belém Lisbon, Portugal September 13-15, 2018 It was on the very edge of South-Western Europe, in Lisbon, that the European Jazz Conference celebrated its fifth annual gathering. The three hundred plus delegates from thirty five countries who convened in the Centro Cultural de ...
Bohemian Trio: Okònkolo
by Neri Pollastri
Raffinata formazione in equilibrio tra camerismo e jazz, musica cubana ed europea, questo trio nasce per iniziativa del pianista Orlando Alonso e del sassofonista Yosvany Terry, entrambi cubani diplomati al conservatorio e con studi alla Juilliard, quando nel 2012 sentono l'esigenza di mettere a punto un progetto che fosse la sintesi dei molti stimoli e interessi ...
Francois Couturier / Tarkovsky Quartet: Nuit Blanche
by John Kelman
Following their sublime duo outing, Moderato Cantabile (ECM, 2014), cellist Anja Lechner and François Couturier reunite in the pianist's quartet responsible for two-thirds of a recorded trilogy for ECM Records, all devoted to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, whose name would ultimately become synonymous with the group: Tarkovsky Quartet. Bookending Couturier's second album of the ...
Innovatori della fisarmonica alle prese con la tradizione
by Neri Pollastri
Un nuovo disco a testa per due dei nostri migliori fisarmonicisti -Simone Zanchini e Luciano Biondini -entrambi noti per non attardarsi sulla tradizione, né dello strumento, né del repertorio nazionale. Sorprende perciò trovarli in questo caso entrambi impegnati su materiali che, in prima approssimazione, verrebbe da considerare (in senso non nobile) “da esportazione": il liscio di ...
Michel Benita Ethics: River Silver
by Karl Ackermann
The Algerian born bassist, Michel Benita, has been an active presence on the European jazz scene for three decades. Now Paris-based, he has played with guitarist Marc Ducret, Dino Saluzzi and Archie Shepp among many other well known artists. At the end of the 1990s he cofounded the ELB Trio with French guitarist Nguyên Lê and ...
Anja Lechner all'Auditorium di Settimo Milanese
by Paolo Peviani
Auditorium Settimo Milanese (MI) 21.10.2015 Salutiamo sempre con piacere la nascita di nuove iniziative musicali. In questo caso, Dancing on the Strings, rassegna dedicata agli strumenti a corda ideata da Antonio Ribatti (che organizza anche il festival Ah-Um Milano) e Gianni Barone (patron della Nau Records). Il cartellone di ...
Folklore and classicism from ECM: Dino Saluzzi's piano music & The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble
by Mark Sullivan
Two recent ECM releases deal with the interface of folk and classical music, each in its own way. Imágenes presents classical piano music composed by Dino Saluzzi, a musician strongly associated with the Argentinian tango tradition. Komitas takes classical compositions based on Armenian folk music and reimagines them played on the folk instruments that would have ...
