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Article: Building a Jazz Library

15 Italian Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

by AAJ Staff
June 23, 2017

It is not unusual for colleagues and promoters from across Europe and the United States to ask me: “Which Italian jazz musicians should I check out?" For decades, Italy has enjoyed an increasingly prominent place in the vast landscape of European Jazz. The names of some of its most famous players, like trumpeters Enrico ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Fabrizio Bosso

by Daniele Vogrig
June 11, 2017

Con un nuovo album registrato dal vivo tra l'Italia e il Giappone, Fabrizio Bosso ha ripercorso il proprio cammino artistico e musicale, fotografando con il suo attuale quartetto i memorabili istanti di un tour ancora in atto. Abbiamo avuto il piacere di parlarne insieme... All About Jazz: Iniziamo dal tuo ultimo album, State ...

Article: Live Review

Like A Jazz Machine 2017

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2017

Like A Jazz Machine Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz Dudelange, Luxembourg May 25-28, 2017 Size, as Like A Jazz Machine knows, isn't everything. The audience in the Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz amounts to just four seated rows downstairs, with a small standing section to the rear, and ten rows ...

Article: Interview

Riccardo Brazzale - Direttore Artistico di Vicenza Jazz

by Libero Farnè
May 8, 2017

Nel mondo del jazz italiano Riccardo Brazzale è un personaggio ben noto per le attività interconnesse che da decenni svolge con competente coerenza. Innanzi tutto dirige con chiarezza di concezione la Lydian Sound Orchestra, larga formazione attiva dal 1989 e con una decina di CD al suo attivo, che raccoglie alcuni protagonisti dell'ambito veneto. ...

Article: Interview

Dave Douglas and the Art of Festival Direction

by Libero Farnè
March 18, 2017

Dave Douglas' fame as a forward looking musician is well-known. His contribution to today's music scene, however, is not limited to his playing. Besides having pioneered in 2005 a unique model of musician-run label with the progressive Greenleaf Music, he has been artistic director of the Banff Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music from 2002 to ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis: The Stone House

by John Kelman
March 4, 2017

At a 2009 ECM @ 40 celebration in Mannheim, Germany that was part of the ongoing Enjoy Jazz Festival, Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava spoke, in a public interview, about how free jazz, back in the day, wasn't really free. There were rules: no time and/or no changes, for example; with memorable melodies not impossible, but not ...

Article: Book Review

Francesco Spampinato e Julius Wiedemann: Art Record Covers

by Libero Farnè
February 20, 2017

Art Record Covers Francesco Spampinato e Julius Wiedemann 448 pagine Taschen 2017 Quasi quattro chili di peso per un formato che è più o meno quello degli LP. Sfogliando per la prima volta questo libro monumentale si rimane affascinati e sovrastati dalle immagini, talvolta a tutta pagina, ...

Article: Interview

Laura Jurd: Big Footprints

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2017

Every few years a band appears that injects a welcome shot of adrenaline into the jazz mainstream, exciting media, promoters and fans alike--the Neil Cowley Trio, Phronesis, GoGo Penguin and Snarky Puppy all spring to mind. Dinosaur, an English quartet led by trumpeter Laura Jurd, is being widely tipped to create such waves on the strength ...

Article: Live Review

Roma Jazz Festival 2016

by Mario Calvitti
December 22, 2016

Roma Jazz Festival 2016 Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma 8-23.11.2016 Edizione importante per il festival jazz romano che festeggia i 40 anni nella sede ormai stabile dell'Auditorium Parco della Musica, dove si sono svolte le ultime 12 edizioni. Il programma della rassegna è stato molto vario, con proposte per tutti i ...

Article: Book Review

Man Of The Light: The Life And Work Of Zbigniew Seifert

by Ian Patterson
December 11, 2016

Man Of The Light: The Life And Work Of Zbigniew Seifert Aneta Norek-Skrycka 172 Pages ISBN: 978-83-938054-2-6 The Zbigniew Seifert Foundation 2016 A number of European jazz musicians stand out for having shaped the sound of the music in the past fifty years, for their virtuosity and for having ...