Results for "Dominique Pifarély"

Dominique Pifarély

Dominique Pifarély modernized jazz violin, combining extraordinary technical skills with an inclusive idea of music-making. He has been soon very in-demand as a straight jazz player, but was soon in some of the more adventurous groups in Europe, too, including Mike Westbrook’s band (On Dukes’ Birthday, hatART) and the Vienna Art Orchestra. In 1979, he began touring with bassist Didier Levallet and guitarist Gérard Marais as a trio. In the 1980s he began leading his own bands, as can be heard on 2 records, Insula Dulcamara (1988) et Oblique (1992). In 1985, Pifarély started to work with reedist Louis Sclavis and in 1992, they formed the Sclavis/Pifarély Acoustic Quartet, featuring guitarist Marc Ducret and bassist Bruno Chevillon, and recorded for ECM

Life on Art

By Federica Michisanti

Label: Musica Jazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Aura; Le Satyre (I); Danse; Sacred; And I Lerned How To Swim; Notre Valse; The Lake; Le Satyre (II); Knots; Legami.

Federica Michisanti: Life on Art

by Neri Pollastri
July 6, 2026

Non sbaglia un colpo Federica Michisanti, la contrabbassista e compositrice romana che un paio d'anni fa sbancò i referendum nazionali incantando le giurie con Afternoons, il disco del suo quartetto “francese," che la vedeva accanto a musicisti del calibro di Louis Sclavis, Vincent Courtois e Michele Rabbia. Già allora stava lavorando, su commissione del centro d'arte ...

Seven Dreams

By Izumi Kimura

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dream Op. 3; Dream Op. 2; Dream Op. 6; Dream Op. 4; Dream Op. 5; Dream Op. 8; Dream Op.9

Eddy m'a dit

By Emmanuel Bex

Label: Peewee!
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dum Dum – Our Kind of Sabi; Le petit Tavy; Les Éléphants; Eddy; Colchiques dans les Prés; La Biguine; Blues for Eddy; Come On DH; Caraïbes; Romance; Les Mots I; Eddy m’a dit; Español; Les Mots II.

Preludes and Songs

By Francois Couturier

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Le surcroît I; La chanson des vieux amants; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley / Les ombres II; Les ombres I / Lament; Le surcroît II; Song for Harrison / Solitude; Vague; What Us; I Loves You Porgy.

Vilnius Jazz Festival 2025

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
November 18, 2025

Vilnius Jazz Festival 2025 Old Theatre of Vilnius Vilnius, Lithuania October 13-21, 2025 This report covers five days from October 15-19. The thirty-eighth edition of the Vilnius Jazz Festival opened with the assurance of an event that has spent decades refining both its aesthetic and its purpose. As one ...

European Jazz Conference 2025: Italian Showcases

by Ian Patterson
October 10, 2025

Italian Jazz Showcase Various venues European Jazz Conference Bari, Italy September 26-27, 2025 Jazz rang out in Bari for four days during the Europe Jazz Network's annual European Jazz Conference. It rang out in Bari's streets, piazzas and theatres, and in ancient church and castle too. It may have been ...

Dreams And Dust: Two From Pianist Izumi Kimura

by Ian Patterson
September 10, 2025

2025 will go down as a busy year for Ireland-based, Japanese pianist Izumi Kimura. The first half of the year served up the solo album Butterfly Effect (Codama Records) and Glacial Voyage (Between The Lines)--the latter a free-form duo collaboration with guitarist Christy Doran. Both albums favored explorations of mood and textures over virtuosity. Two further ...

Francois Couturier, Dominique Pifarély: Preludes and Songs

by Neri Pollastri
May 5, 2025

Cameristica contemporanea di altissimo livello che s'intreccia con il jazz e con la musica popolare, distillandola in note purissime e affacinanti: questo è, in etrema sintesi, l'ennesimo incontro tra lo straordinario violinista francese Dominique Pifarély e il non meno prestigioso connazionale pianista Francois Couturier, artisti che collaborano da quarant'anni e che nel 1997 avevano già pubblicato ...