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David Torn: Prezens
by Mark F. Turner
"Take a little trip, take a little trip. Take a little trip and see... --Excerpt from the 1970s popular hit, “Low Rider, by WAR from Why Can't We Be Friends (Rhino, 1975). The popular lyrics from the above song could describe guitarist David Torn's Prezens, his first band recording in twenty years for ...
Kayhan Kalhor - Erdan Erzincal: The Wind
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il musicista iraniano Kayhan Kalhor, conosciuto in Occidente come membro del duo Ghazal, con cui ha inciso tre album per l'americana Shanachie e uno per la tedesca ECM (The Rain), è un virtuoso del kamancheh, sorta di violino arabo che si suona con l'archetto, tenendolo però in posizione verticale. In questa occasione non ha più al ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
by AAJ Italy Staff
E se alla fine l'annosa diatriba sulla opposizione/dialettica tra composizione e improvvisazione fosse solo frutto di un errore percettivo? E l'essenza del “farsi" musica [in tempi più o meno meditati o immediati] emergesse dal negativo, come in quelle illusioni prospettiche, rivelandosi un brulicare di “altro" cui incredibilmente non si era fatto caso? La domanda è ovviamente ...
Stefano Battaglia: Re: Pasolini
by John Kelman
For the follow-up to his 2005 ECM debut, Raccolto, veteran Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia leaves behind its freely improvised context for more structured territory. That shouldn't suggest that Re: Pasolini doesn't have its share of surprises, but with a greater attention to form and arrangement, it provides a contrasting view to Battaglia's broad musical scope. Re: ...
Roscoe Mitchell / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
by John Kelman
While perhaps best known for his ground-breaking improvisational work with The Art Ensemble of Chicago and assorted personal projects, woodwind multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell has also been exploring, over the past four decades, contemporary classical music and the integration of written form with exploratory improvisation. Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 is Mitchell's most successful example of ...
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: The Zoo Is Far
by AAJ Italy Staff
Le ultime tendenze scandinave sembrano privilegiare atmosfere solenni, maestose, quasi liturgiche. Si pensi agli album di Trygve Seim, o a certi echi religiosi che si possono qua e là riscontarre nella musica di Arve Henriksen. Non fa eccezione “The Zoo Is Far”, quarto album pubblicato per l'ECM da Wallumrød, che nell'occasione ha allargato il suo Ensemble ...
Paul Motian: Time and Time Again
by AAJ Italy Staff
C’è un qualcosa di indefinito nella musica di Paul Motian che sembra strettamente connesso alla nozione di tempo. Sarà quel modo così parsimonioso e così poco percussivo di suonare (e mai come in questo caso il verbo rende l’idea della musicalità insita nel tocco del maestro), saranno quelle composizioni scritte con spiccato gusto per la dilatazione ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Jim Santella
With this quartet's third album, John Abercrombie interprets a program of eight original compositions plus “Round Trip by Ornette Coleman and “Epilogue by pianist Bill Evans. The choices show where this modern mainstream guitarist comes from, as the quartet's session pulls from jazz's creative tradition: rich in harmonic surprises and yet free and unique. ...
Paul Motian: Time and Time Again
by Budd Kopman
The word abstract, when applied to jazz or music in general, is that which has little or none of the components that provide the mind, through the ears, structure and form through repetition. Most would agree that rhythm is the most basic in that the repetition of groups of beats and the accents ...
Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
by Nenad Georgievski
This subtle, sublime collaboration finds Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner crafting music at once intimate, expansive and lyrical. The juxtaposition of Saluzzi's bandoneon with Lechner's cello produces mesmerizing textures and tones that are without parallel. It presents a fascinating combination of two extraordinary musicians that are among the most accomplished on their respective instruments. The sinuous ...
