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John Abercrombie: The First Quartet
by Karl Ackermann
In his more than thirty year career--almost exclusively with ECM--guitarist John Abercrombie has more often than not confined his formation to smaller groups ranging from solo through quartet. He has been less restricted in the style of music he creates and that diversity is demonstrated with mixed results on The First Quartet. The albums included in ...
Sokratis Sinopoulos: Eight Winds
by Neri Pollastri
Ecco un lavoro davvero molto particolare, che prende ispirazione dalla musica tradizionale per realizzare impasti di impianto jazzistico, traendoli per giunta da una regione--la Grecia--la cui tradizione, splendida, è stata piuttosto sottovalutata in questo contesto. Ne è autore Sokratis Sinopoulos, poco più che quarantenne specialista della lyra, strumento tradizionale dell'area egea, che ha coltivato ...
Food: This Is Not a Miracle
by Mark Sullivan
British/Norwegian experimental jazz group Food have done something a little different with each album, especially since downsizing from a quartet to the duo of Iain Ballamy and Thomas Stronen (plus guests). For this one they are joined again by Austrian guitarist and electronics player Christian Fennesz--but Strønen has taken the lead. He explains “With Food, it's ...
Mette Henriette: Mette Henriette
by Hrayr Attarian
Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette's (full name Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg) eponymous debut on ECM is a bold artistic statement. A mosaic of shimmering tonal hues, provocative ideas and sublime moods the music is spread out over two CDs. On each one Henriette is in the company of a different ensemble but the thematic unity is maintained ...
Food: This Is Not a Miracle
by Karl Ackermann
Since the formation of Food, more than a dozen years ago, the duo at its core, saxophonist Iain Ballamy and drummer Thomas Strønen, have remained the nucleus of a small but impressive coop of players who have added their unique creative ideas to an already out-of-the-mainstream entity whose philosophy has been to stun without their lasers ...
Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg: Mette Henriette
by Karl Ackermann
In her debut recording with the large Norwegian ensemble Torg on Kost/Elak/Gnäll (Jazzland Recordings, 2015), the playing of saxophonist Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg may well have been lost in the pack. That Bugge Wesseltoft produced album was an unrestrained mashup of genres, styles and techniques in an octet that didn't easily lend itself to individual performance ...
Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs
by Mario Calvitti
Il viaggio del polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus attraverso una geografia musicale immaginaria aggiunge un'altra tappa al suo già notevole cammino, testimoniato da una discografia che in 40 anni ha raggiunto i 23 titoli, quasi tutti pubblicati da ECM. I canti nomadi del titolo descrivono il complesso della sua opera, risultato di tanti anni di vagabondaggio attraverso ...
AACM - The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music
by Hrayr Attarian
The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) was created 50 years ago in Chicago to give voice to adventurous African American musicians and to express the political turmoil of the era. As this is the anniversary year of this revolutionary collective here are ten essential classic AACM recordings that belong in any collection, regardless ...
Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella: Wild Dance
by Giuseppe Segala
Lo smalto di Enrico Rava resta inossidabile. Alimenta anzi la propria forza con l'incontro di nuovi musicisti, che il trombettista inserisce con il proverbiale fiuto nel suo scenario artistico. In questo Wild Dance è in azione il nuovo quartetto, forte di giovani nomi di alto interesse come il chitarrista Francesco Diodati, il contrabbassista Gabriele Evangelista, già ...
Anthony de Mare: Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
by John Kelman
It looks, on paper, like a striking idea. Take a pianist (Anthony de Mare) who has been a virtuosic rising star in the classical and avant-garde arenas over the past quarter century. Commission a set of 36 interpretations, for solo piano, of music by one of musical theatre's preeminent composers, Stephen Sondheim. Choose participants ranging from ...
