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Elliott Sharp's Terraplane: Forgery
by Eyal Hareuveni
Guitarist Elliott Sharp, one of the most influential and innovative figures on the avant-garde New York downtown scene of the last generation, claims that his blues outfit Terraplane (coined after Robert Johnson's “Terraplane Blues") is actually a pop band that lacks only popularity. He is absolutely right. Forgery—the group's fifth release—is its most direct, compact, emotional ...
Elliott Sharp & Terraplane (Special Guest: Hubert Sumlin)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 26.11.2007 Come molti jazzofili milanesi, per la serata di lunedì 26 novembre mi sono trovato di fronte al dilemma di dover scegliere tra due concerti davvero interessanti: quello di Gianluigi Trovesi al Teatro Dal Verme, e quello di Elliott Sharp al Teatro Manzoni. Considerato che ho avuto numerose ...
Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane: Forgery
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con questo nuovo lavoro, Forgery - dedicato alla “contraffatta" convinzione che New York sia il centro creativo del mondo, mentre invece è da qualche anno prevalentemente immobilizzata nei propri cliché - i Terraplane di Elliott Sharp vanno, come si suol dire, dritto al sodo. Band che da qualche anno sta lavorando a un attento rinnovamento della ...
Elliott Sharp - Reinhold Friedl: Feuchtify
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi ha ancora nelle orecchie The Velocity of Hue, il bellissimo lavoro in solo per chitarra acustica di Elliott Sharp, è bene che non si lasci scappare Feuchtify. Strategie, spettri, dettagli di strumentazione tornano ad essere l’essenza di questo nuovo lavoro del musicista americano in collaborazione con il pianista Reinhold Friedl. Feuchtify contiene tredici tracce registrate ...
Elliott Sharp: Secret Life
by C. Michael Bailey
Multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp expresses music through his own personal filter. He does this in the postmodern spirit: instead of assembling a collection of musical ideals, he adopts musical ideas rooted in the reaction to the restrictions and limitations of those musical ideals. In some highbrow sense that may describe what Ornette Coleman and late John Coltrane ...
Elliott Sharp & Reinhold Friedl: Feuchitfy
by John Eyles
Recorded in New York in March 2001 as part of Elliott Sharp's 50th birthday celebrations, this is the second release from this duo, after Anostalgia (Grob, 2002). The combination of Reinhold Friedl's piano—prepared or played inside—with Sharp's array of instruments is highly distinctive. The two players are adept at laying down repeated patterns—as close as one ...
Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Misterioso; Well You Needn't; Bemsha Swing; Round Midnight; Epistrophy.
Elliott Sharp & Reinhold Friedl: Feuchtify
by Nic Jones
It moves stealthily, this music, and the range of its tonal palette belies the instrumentation. In his piano work Friedl utilises parts of the instrument other than the keyboard, while Sharp makes use of the time-honoured in the form of the dobro and the comparatively new in the form of a computer. And while it's often ...
Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
by Elliott Simon
A guitarist with a mastery of his instrument's fretboard, Elliott Sharp goes beyond pedestrian picking and strumming for a percussive and pianistic effect that has to be seen to be believed. In fact, Sharp's approach to his instrument is in many ways more reminiscent of a pianist than a guitarist. It is no surprise, then, that ...
