Results for "Erik Satie"

Chris Potter: Eagle's Point

by Chris May
March 3, 2024

The question that comes to mind after listening to Eagle's Point is this: why have the four musicians, who have known each other since the 1990s, never recorded together before? For the combination of Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade is a real meeting of minds; the stars are in perfect alignment.

Esbjörn Svensson: HOME.S.

by Mike Jurkovic
December 30, 2022

Akin to when people first sat in elegant staterooms listening to Chopin, Mendelssohn, Mahler, or Erik Satie seek the muse, HOME.S stands as the first solo performance by the late Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson and will quite possibly be considered the grandest moment of any other forthcoming posthumous releases. Recorded mere weeks before the ...

Jose Menezes

Born: April 27, 1957

Porto, Portugal, 1957. Work with, among others Rogério Botter-Maio, Myra Melford, Carlos Barretto, Kelvin Sholar, Butch Morris, Jacinta, Kirk Lightsey, Carlos Mendes, Herman José, Manuel Freire, Carlos Alberto Moniz, Paulo Gonzo, Luis Represas, GNR, Mler Ife Dada, Sérgio Godinho, Pedro Abrunhosa, Michael Lauren, Tito Paris, Ensemble RAUM, Dany Silva, Rui Veloso, Laurent Filipe, Nelson Cascais, Sara Tavares, Lena d’Água, Rita Guerra, Helena Vieira, Vitorino, etc and with Orquestra Sinfónica da RDP-Norte, Orquestra Regional do Norte, Ensemble de António Pinho Vargas, Decateto de Mário Laginha, Big-Band de Claus Nymark, Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos and Porto Saxophone Quartet, UBU Saxophone Quartet and Big-Band do Hot-Club de Portugal playing and recording with Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Henderson, Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller Under conductors Dieter Glawischnig, António Vitorino de Almeida, Miguel Graça Moura, Ferreira Lobo, Pedro Moreira, Pedro Osório, Jorge Costa Pinto, Zé Eduardo, Pedro Duarte, Armindo Neves, José Marinho and Thilo Krassman Guest soloist of Reunion Big Band e Orquestra de Jazz de Lagos At present with LUME-Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble, Michael Lauren All- stars, Jorge Costa PintoBig Band Concerts in Brasil, US, Angola, Switzerland, Cape Verde, Spain, France and Holland.

Gerald Clayton: Bells On Sand

by Chris May
April 9, 2022

It seems like an age since pianist Gerald Clayton's previous album, Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 2020), although it is actually only two years. But what traumatic years they were--and what an impact they have had on Clayton's new album. The Vanguard disc, recorded in spring 2019, was an often exuberant ...

Bremer/McCoy: Utopia

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 29, 2020

Since they released their debut, Enhed (Raske Plader, 2013), Danish bassist Jonathan Bremer and pianist Morten McCoy have been quietly crafting their own sound, and their fourth album, Utopia, marks a new beginning for the duo simply billed as Bremer/McCoy. The difference this time is that David Byrne's renowned Luaka Bop label has ...

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Yakir Arbib: My Name Is Yakir

by Don Phipps
December 30, 2019

Clever and entertaining, My Name is Yakir offers a diverse potpourri of jazz standards and original compositions performed by pianist Yakir Arbib. The music contrasts standards from the Dixieland, swing, bebop and hard bop eras with five originals that mix classical idioms with loose jazz structures. Arbib certainly has talent and his technical dexterity permits him ...

John Law: The Re-Creations Trilogy

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 7, 2019

John Law is one of the most prominent pianists on the British jazz scene and he is also a distinctive composer. So far, he has focused primarily on building a substantial compositional body of work, culminating in his ambitious Art of Sound tetralogy (33 Jazz, 2007-2009), followed by strong records like Three Leaps of the Gazelle ...

Lyrical Stories in Music: Jakob Dinesen & Jean-Sebastian Simonoviez, FLOW and Michael Vincent Waller

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 18, 2019

Saying that a piece of music is lyrical presupposes a quality that is hard to define. You know what it is until you need to explain it. The Cambridge Dictionary says that it means: “expressing personal thoughts and feelings in a beautiful way," which doesn't really say much. In music, storytelling is just as elusive. It's ...

Ada Rovatti e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
April 1, 2019

Il tratto principale della mia musica Accessibile ma armonicamente e stilisticamente sofisticata. Così almeno è stata definita in una recensione e penso che mi si addica. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Mentalità musicale aperta e rispetto. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono ...