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Un ricordo di Giorgio Gaslini
by Marcus A. Woelfle
Nel 1995, mentre si esibiva al Festival monacense “Big Band Meeting -Jazz & More" Giorgio Gaslini, concesse un'intervista a Marcus A. Woelfle. La ECM aveva appena pubblicato Skies of Europe dell'Italian Instabile Orchestra con l'omonima suite di Gaslini che diede lo spunto all'intervista. Per ricordare il pianista da poco scomparso, All About Jazz Italia ripropone questa ...
Clusone Jazz - 34a Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
20.06-03.08.2014 Trentaquattresima edizione di Clusone Jazz, la prima del dopo Livio Testa. Ideatore e storico direttore artistico del festival che al termine della scorsa edizione, in modo inatteso ma non troppo, ha deciso di lasciare l'incarico. Il testimone della direzione del festival è stato raccolto da Gaetano Bordogna, persona appassionata ...
Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII
by John Kelman
When München's Haus der Kunst sponsored a nearly three-month exhibition about the ECM Records label, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, which ran from November, 2012 to February, 2013, there was far more to it than just bringing together collections of album covers, rarely seen video, archival tapes, imagery and concert performances. As much as ECM has carved ...
Lawnmower: Lawnmower II
by Vincenzo Roggero
Lawnmower è un'idea musicale del batterista Luther Gray (Anthony Braxton, Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee per citare alcune sue frequentazioni) che nel 2010 si concretizzò sulla label portoghese Clean Feed in un'inedita formazione completata da due chitarre elettriche e da un sassofono. Quattro anni dopo il leader si ripresenta con il fido Jim Hobbs ...
Jazz bassist Charlie Haden, part of groundbreaking Ornette Coleman Quartet, dies at 76
NEW YORK — Bassist Charlie Haden, who helped change the shape of jazz more than a half-century ago as a member of Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet and liberated the bass from its traditional rhythm section role, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 76. Haden's wife of 30 years, singer Ruth Cameron, and his four children ...
François Tusques / Alexandra Grimal / Sylvain Guérineau: La Jungle du Douanier Rousseau
by Eyal Hareuveni
This ad-hoc French trio brings tenor saxophone players and free improvisers--Sylvain Guérineau, who is also a gifted painter, and Alexandra Grimal to the musical universe of veteran pianist Francois Tusques, who began to play jazz in post-war France and was a close associate of expatriate Americans like Don Cherry and The Art Ensemble of Chicago during ...
Jazz Liège Festival 2014
by Jean-Pierre Goffin
Jazz Liège Festival Brussels, Belgium May 8-10, 2014 The International Jazz Festival in Liège was created twenty-four years ago. The city was known for decades as the Belgian capital of jazz, with musicians such as Bobby Jaspar ( who played with Miles Davis,J.J. Johnson, Donald Byrd and many others), René ...
Vision Festival 19: Roy Campbell, Tributes To A Giant
VISION 19 - Studies In Freedom. Wednesday June 11 thru Sunday June 15, 2014 Roy Campbell was deeply grounded in the jazz tradition, and exhibited a working musician’s flexibility, with experiences ranging from R. & B. bands to off-Broadway shows, to reggae to electronics. Like Don Cherry, one of his heroes, Campbell was an omnivorous collaborator, ...
Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper
by Colin Harper
Exclusive extract adapted from Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond By Colin Harper. Published (UK and US) March 26, 2014 by Jawbone Press “British jazz is awash with young talent which, given a healthy set of circumstances and a fair share of work, could produce a generation of ...
Kidd Jordan & Hamid Drake: A Night In November - Live in New Orleans
by Dave Wayne
Hard to believe, but A Night In November--Live in New Orleans is the first drums / saxophone duet recording by legendary New Orleans free jazz saxophonist and educator Kidd Jordan. He's accompanied by a true kindred spirit, Hamid Drake. Though both have made names for themselves in the rarefied world of free improvisation, neither are shy ...
