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Christian Winther & Christian Meaas Svendsen: W / M
by Eyal Hareuveni
W/ M is a double album that feature two debuts as solo artists of two young and promising Norwegian improvisers, both spinning out of the creative environment around the Music Academy in Oslo. Guitarist Christian Winther, a member of the punk-jazz trio Ich Bin N!ntendo, genre-bending trio Monkey Plot and the free improvisers collective Mummu, and ...
Elliott Sharp / Melvin Gibbs / Lucas Niggli: Crossing The Waters
by Glenn Astarita
The performer roster of Switzerland's progressive record label Intakt Records was showcased in 2012 at John Zorn's New York City venue, The Stone. Venerable Swiss drummer and longtime Intakt recording artist Lucas Niggli teamed with New York City-based guitarist Elliott Sharp and bassist Melvin Gibbs for a maiden trio concert, wasting no time at all capturing ...
Art Strike!
by Mark Corroto
"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...
Jazz: A Blessed Obsession
by Mark Corroto
Jazz listeners travel some strange and beautiful paths. It might have all begun with collectors trying to find a legendary Edison cylinder that New Orleans trumpeter Buddy Bolden--some believe to be the very first jazz musician--may (or may not) have recorded in 1904. Fast forward to modern times, a quick scan of eBay and the exorbitant ...
Aggregat
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Nucular; Hard Landing; Mal Du Droit; The Grip; Allelia; Gegenschein; Refractory; Global Swarming; Positronics; Estuary; Figure Of Speech; Satan Sandwich.
Sky Road Songs
Label: MC Records
Released: 2012
Track listing:
1. Outward (Sharp); 2. Endless Path (Morris - Sharp); 3. Down on the Block (Sharp);
4. Dangerous Lands (Sharp); 5. Banking Blues (Mardin); 6. This House Is for Sale
(Mingus - Sharp); 7. Fade to Noir (Morris - Sharp, Mardin); 8. Off the Hook (Sharp);
9. Off My Mind (Mingus - Sharp); 10. I Blame You (Morris - Sharp); 11. The Common
Extreme (Morris - Sharp); 12. Sky Road Song (Sharp); 13. Inward (Sharp); 14. (Still
Got The) Banking Blues (Mardin).
Elliott Sharp
by AAJ Italy Staff
Area Sismica - Forlì - 12.10.2012 Tra i protagonisti della scena downtown newyorkese degli anni '80, Elliott Sharp ha una notorietà che si è estesa anche al di fuori dei confini di quella scena, grazie soprattutto al progetto Terraplane, che vede la presenza anche di Eric Mingus, con il quale reinterpreta la tradizione blues. Sharp - ...
You say you're beat? You don't know Jack
by Mark Corroto
..."the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." Jack ...
Elliott Sharp's Terraplane: Sky Road Songs
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per chi ama il blues, questa nuova avventura di Elliott Sharp e dei suoi Terraplane è un sontuoso banchetto di delizie a cui unirsi immediatamente, senza un attimo di esitazione. Non solo perchè i compagni di viaggio si chiamano Hubert Sumlin, leggendario chitarrista sideman di Muddy Waters e Howlin' Wolf (a cui è dedicato, tra l'altro, ...
Elliott Sharp: Aggregat
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista Elliott Sharp ci ricorda in questo ottimo Aggregat (Clean Feed Records) che è anche un interessante saxofonista, oltre che un paladino del jazz sperimentale e d'avanguardia. I suoi tre strumenti (chitarra elettrica, sax tenore e sax soprano) sono ripartiti abbastanza equamente nei dodici brani che lo vedono in trio accompagnato dal bassista Brad Jones ...
