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Article: Interview

Ricordiamo Gerald Wilson

Read "Ricordiamo Gerald Wilson" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Era rimasto l'unico grande bandleader della Swing Era, Gerald Wilson, e la sua recente scomparsa (l'8 settembre scorso, a 96 anni) è stata ricordata dai principali media statunitensi con ampi necrologi. Purtroppo in Italia è rimasta quasi inosservata. Superato il picco di popolarità dei primi anni sessanta, con un orchestra che vinse prestigiosi referendum, Wilson ebbe ...

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Article: Album Review

Yard Byard - The Jaki Byard Project: Inch by Inch

Read "Inch by Inch" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


A quindici anni dalla morte di Jaki Byard la sua statura di compositore viene celebrata da un quintetto nato quattro anni fa proprio con quest'intento. Com'è noto, Byard è stato il pianista di importanti gruppi degli anni sessanta: il sestetto di Charles Mingus in primo luogo, ma anche alcuni organici di Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers, Herb ...

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Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Helga Plankensteiner

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Helga Plankensteiner" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine -Present Joys (Greenleaf Music -2014). Da anni seguo la musica di Douglas e Caine; per me due straordinari musicisti e compositori. In questo disco esplorano le radici della musica americana. Un disco molto interessante e di una semplicità avvincente. 02. Charles Mingus -Blues & Roots (Atlantic ...

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Article: Film Review

Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity

Read "Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Charles Lloyd Arrows Into Infinity ECM Records 2014 Undoubtedly deserving the title modern day saxophone titan Charles Lloyd has made one of the most important contributions to the art better known as contemporary or modern jazz. Widely recognized as one of the most timeless and significant musicians in the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms: From the Region

Read "From the Region" reviewed by Mark Corroto


An imagined overheard conversation in heaven between Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi goes something like this: “If only all music could swing this hard, there would be no need for war."Okay, maybe it wasn't MLK and Gandhi, but it could have been Horace Silver and Joey Ramone.In a trio format, Vibraphonist ...

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Article: Live Review

Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Hargrove at New Morning

Read "Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Hargrove at New Morning" reviewed by Patricia Myers


Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Hargrove New Morning Paris, France July 23, August 1, 2014 Among the nightly summer concerts staged at New Morning in Paris was a double dose of electronic funk and neo-soul sounds by multi-keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith and trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Each played to capacity audiences on humid ...

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Article: Interview

Steve Swell: Unlimited Musical Possibilities

Read "Steve Swell: Unlimited Musical Possibilities" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


"Free Jazz" and “Avant-Garde Jazz" are catch phrases often associated with musical pioneers such as Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor but more broadly refer to music that goes outside of the mainstream of melody, harmony, rhythm, and structure. When that happens, opinions and emotions abound. Reactions vary from disgust to excitement and enthusiasm, and it is ...

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Article: Album Review

Br-aa-jj-aa Waldman's Quintet: Sir Real Live at Resonance

Read "Sir Real Live at Resonance" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Nato nello Stato di New York, non lontano dal Canada e poi trasferitosi nel 2003 a Montreal e lì particolarmente attivo in diversi progetti musicali, il sassofonista, batterista e compositore Brahja Waldman, da qualche tempo risiede a New York, dove studia, incontra musicisti, accompagna reading di poeti della beat generation come Anne Waldman e Bob Holman, ...

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Article: Album Review

Giulia Barba: The Angry St. Bernard

Read "The Angry St. Bernard" reviewed by Luigi Sforza


Imbattersi in lavori che più o meno chiaramente riverberano creativamente capitoli fondamentali della storia musicale afroamericana e non suscita interesse, anche solo per la possibilità che hanno di creare inevitabilmente valore aggiunto. Se inoltre affiorano tipicità estetica, buon livello di scrittura, capacità di gestire e amalgamare i timbri, guidare un settetto davvero internazionale verso un jazz ...

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Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 1-3

Read "Practice, Do You? Part 1-3" reviewed by Dom Minasi


I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I first saw Roy Rogers sing and ...


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