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Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors
by Martin Longley
Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...
Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths
by Katchie Cartwright
In the course of a career that began in the 1980s and continues to flourish, Renee Rosnes has developed an extraordinary sound, both as a composer and as a pianist, one that is readily recognizable whatever the context. With Crossing Paths, she taps into longstanding affinities and affection for Brazilian music, illuminating elements and flavors that ...
Oscar Peterson: City Lights: The Oscar Peterson Quartet – Live in Munich, 1994
by Mike Jurkovic
The first big challenge presented by the latest grand release from the Oscar Peterson archives, City Lights: The Oscar Peterson Quartet--Live in Munich, 1994 is how not to spontaneously burst into dance, either with yourself or some total stranger who happens to be within five miles of earshot of the ecstatic opener, “There Will Never Be ...
Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn
by Angelo Leonardi
In questo nuovo album, Brian Landrus esalta la magniloquenza della sua timbrica grave con l'ampia gamma di strumenti che usa: non solo i prediletti sax baritono e clarinetto basso ma sax basso, flauto basso, flauto contralto, clarinetto contralto, ottavino e vari altri. La scelta del celeberrimo songbook di Duke Ellington e Billy Strayhorn è piuttosto ...
Mario Mariotti, ricerca e improvvisazione tra contemporanea e jazz
by Neri Pollastri
Trombettista milanese di formazione accademica e dalle diversificate esperienze, appassionato esploratore dei multiformi scenari dell'improvvisazione, Mario Mariotti negli ultimi anni ha proposto lavori diversi tra loro, ma tutti molto interessanti. Abbiamo conversato con lui per conoscere meglio la sua personalità artistica. All About Jazz: Comincerei dal tuo interesse per Bill Dixon al quale ti ...
Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn
by Jack Bowers
When gathering material for a new recording, one time-honored rule of thumb is that it is hard to stray too far off course when revisiting the musical handiwork of renowned composer Duke Ellington and/or the Duke's virtuosic alter ego, Billy Strayhorn--even if one chooses to lead with an Ellington theme as relatively unknown as “Agra" from ...
Jazzed in the Mouse House
by Patrick Burnette
Jazz has gone some pretty wacky places--Russia, South America, the White House--but believe it or not, sometimes it even invades that princess-industrial complex we know and love as the Disney corporation. Listen and learn as Mike leads us deep into this heart of darkness and we see how a rainbow of different jazz artists come to ...
Gil Evans Remembered: Gil Evans Remembered (Live At The Cutting Room, NYC)
by Jack Kenny
Few people have a better right to remember Gil Evans than these musicians. The serrated wail of this band enraptured, touched and torched the listeners. It is easy to see why musicians from the Monday Night Band would want to play, creating under Evans' beatific musical vision. It must have been inspiring. Most of the musicians ...
B.B. King: In France: Live At The 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival
by Ian Patterson
By the time B.B. King arrived in France in the autumn of 1977 he could already reflect upon a good year. After a string of misfiring crossover albums, the Indianola blues musician had returned to studio form with the mostly straight-ahead blues of King Size (ABC, 1977). An invitation to Yale saw King become only the ...
Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe
by Dean Nardi
Play your violin for us like that wild, joyful hippie girl. You who look as if you might have come from the steppes of Russia instead of the Lost Coast, a remote region of northern California prone to earthquakes and mudslides. You who galloped into school on a snorting mare, its hair used to string the ...
