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Enjoy Jazz 2016
by John Kelman
2016 Enjoy Jazz Festival Heidelberg, Mannheim & Ludwigshafen, Germany October 24-November 1, 2016 Returning to Heidelberg and the Enjoy Jazz Festival after a three-year absence is still more than a bit like returning to a second home. Not just the same hotel (the ever-charming Hollander Hof, along the Neckar River by an ...
Steve Reich: The ECM Recordings
by Nenad Georgievski
Celebrated as one of the most significant contemporary American composer-musicians of the late 20th century, Steve Reich successfully dismantled the cemented bedrock of Western Music and rebuilt it in surprisingly innovative ways. One of the founders of the Minimalism movement in classical music, he created music that drew on aspects of Balinese, Yemenite, African and Hebrew ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace
by Mark Sullivan
Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel made a big splash early in his career, playing with vibraphonist Gary Burton and recording for PolyGram Records (including 1990's The Promise, produced by Burton). Since founding his own label Material Records in 2000 he has had a somewhat lower profile, although in addition to a number of his projects the label ...
Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report
by John Ephland
The music on bassist Miroslav Vitous' Music Of Weather Report is a fascinating document by an original member of that seminal group, formed in 1970. Revisiting music he helped to create as well as one tune that came after he left the group in 1974 (along with new music he wrote and one from original member ...
Cyrille secondo Tononi
by Tiziano Tononi
Tiziano Tononi è da sempre un ammiratore di Andrew Cyrille, dal cui senso del ritmo ha tratto ispirazione per i numerosi progetti che da decenni porta avanti cercando un ideale ponte culturale tra la scena jazzistica afro-americana e quella italiana. Abbiamo approfittato della uscita, quasi contemporanea, dei CD “Proximity" e “The Declaration of ...
Jakob Bro: Streams
by Mark Sullivan
Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's second ECM album as leader continues with the trio concept of his debut Gefion (ECM, 2015). That album was a low-key stunner, with drummer Jon Christensen frequently taking a role as much textural as rhythmic. Streams is a somewhat more extroverted affair. It's tempting to attribute the change to new drummer Joey ...
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow: Andando el Tiempo
by Angelo Leonardi
Carla Bley ha festeggiato gli ottant'anni assieme ai partner a lei più vicini da quando ha smesso di condurre formazioni orchestrali. Oltre a essere suo compagno di vita, Steve Swallow collabora con la pianista e compositrice dalla fine degli anni settanta mentre Andy Sheppard ha iniziato la partnership un decennio dopo. Eppure questo trio, davvero sublime, ...
Andrew Cyrille Quartet: The Declaration of Musical Independence
by Mark Sullivan
Drummer Andrew Cyrille is probably best known for his long association with the avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. He has previously appeared on ECM and Watt albums by saxophonist Marion Brown (Afternoon of a Georgia Faun, 1970), Carla Bley (European Tour 1977, 1978), The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (originally on JCOA, 1968), and most recently on Ben Monder's ...
Andy Sheppard Quartet: Surrounded By Sea
by Luigi Sforza
Si immaginino una pulsazione ritmica regolare, brani chiusi e strutturati in sezioni, armonie tensive e distensive che si alternano in base alle articolazioni delle frasi melodiche, improvvisazioni che seguono patterns e cliché consolidati del linguaggio e si avrebbe un format per certi versi omologante, avulso da ogni tentativo di ricerca creativa di uno stile originale.
Jakob Bro: Streams
by Geno Thackara
"The music wants to go in its own direction," Jakob Bro declares, and “it's our job to follow it." If one central theme of jazz is “never the same way once," the Danish guitarist is someone who lives by it more than most. No two of his albums are made with the same cast and rarely ...
