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Article: Album Review

Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels

Read "A Multitude of Angels" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The phrase “triumph of the human spirit" may be commonly used, but rarely in musical contexts. There have, however, been relatively recent examples of such achievements, like when Michael Brecker managed to not just make it into the studio, six months before he died from a fatal blood disorder in early 2007, but delivered one of ...

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Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels

Read "A Multitude of Angels" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

In the last solo concert tour of the first half of Keith Jarrett's career, the preeminent pianist of our time had, himself, recorded the performances across four Italian locations, on his digital audio tape machine. These would be the final public performances Jarrett would give for a number of years as he worked through chronic fatigue ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Balke: Warp

Read "Warp" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Progetto in solitudine del pianista norvegese, quasi un decennio dopo il suo Book of Velocity, ma qui il pianoforte-- registrato al Rainbow Studio -è accompagnato da suoni registrati e campionati, da rumori d'ambiente e da voci, il tutto processato dall'autore assieme ad Audun Kleive, già partner di Jon Balke in altri lavori, e poi missato alla ...

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David Virelles: Antenna

Read "Antenna" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Pianist/composer David Virelles has combined his Cuban heritage with jazz before, most notably on his 2014 ECM leader debut Mbókò, which had the subtitle “Sacred Music for Piano, Two Basses, Drum Set and Biankoméko Abakuá." But this EP--which is being released exclusively on vinyl and digitally--takes things in an entirely new electro-acoustic direction. It's a dense ...

Article: Album Review

Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Petrella, Louis Sclavis, Gerard Cleaver: Ida Lupino

Read "Ida Lupino" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Nell'anno delle ottanta candeline per l'ex-signora Bley, al secolo Carla Borg, non mancano gli omaggi rivolti alla compositrice nativa di Oakland. Questo nuovo album che ruota attorno alla premiata ditta Guidi-Petrella il suo omaggio lo rende fin dal titolo, che come tutti sappiamo è quello del tema più noto della Bley, unico dei sedici brani complessivi ...

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Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz 2016

Read "Enjoy Jazz 2016" reviewed by John Kelman

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 ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Steve Reich: The ECM Recordings

Read "Steve Reich: The ECM Recordings" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

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 ...

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Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace

Read "Rising Grace" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report

Read "Music of Weather Report" reviewed by John Ephland

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 ...

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Cyrille secondo Tononi

Read "Cyrille secondo Tononi" reviewed by Tiziano 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 ...


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