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Jon Hassell: Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street
by Nenad Georgievski
One of the most significant American composer/musicians of the late twentieth century, Jon Hassell, has served as a synthesist, catalyst, and eventually a sound painter and innovator. He has, over the course of his career, unleashed a stunning new vocabulary that still resounds today in the playing of artists including Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Henriksen, Paolo ...
Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12Since its inception in 2005, the Norwegian Punkt festival has been gaining an international reputation for innovation and creativity. With a founding premise of Live Remix--where individual concerts, crossing the breadth of jazz but also beyond, are remixed immediately following the performance with other ...
Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 1-2, October 20-21, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12 Situated along the Neckar River in the central part of Germany, Heidelberg may seem like an unlikely place for a six-week jazz festival in the middle of the fall each year. But Enjoy Jazz, now in its eleventh year, has been bringing an ...
Legendary Downbeat Magazine Devotes a 16-Page Insert to the "Best of the Fests"
Montreal - In its October 2009 edition, bearing the signatures of influential jazz journalists and critics Ed Enright, Michael Bourne, Joshua Jackson and Michael Jackson, highly respected DownBeat magazine paid the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal a very special tribute, describing it as the jazz festival par excellence: “Bigger! Better! Best, actually..." A 16-page insert ...
Barcelona International Jazz Festival 2009 Complete Roster!
Here is the complete schedule for the 41 Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival, opening on October 28th with Wayne Shorter Quartet, and closing at the NYC’s Jazz Standard with four very special nights (December 3rd to 6th), featuring Chano Dominguez Quinteto Flamenco. Watch the video! Concerts Sunday, October 18th Celebrating Blue Note ...
Ben Neill: Night Science
by Mark Corroto
Miles Davis certainly smiled on musical innovations. Years ago, to keep up with the latest, all that was required was to check out what the late trumpeter was investigating. With Miles gone, the hunt maybe a bit more difficult, but then again Peter Gordon's Thirsty Ear label, under the creative direction of pianist Matthew Shipp, has ...
Stade: Freewheel
by Mark F. Turner
The relationship between electronics and acoustic instruments has evolved since Miles Davis' groundbreaking Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), with artists continuing to manipulate technologies within their current environments. These lines are becoming increasingly blurred on recordings such as Opsvik and Jennings' A Dream I Used To Remember (Loyal Label, 2009) and Humcrush's Rest at Worlds End (Rune ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 1-3 July 1-3, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 1-3, 2009 It's the 30th Anniversary for the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) and, based on the stellar line-up, it promises to surpass its 25th Anniversary celebration from ...
Download Three Free MP3s by Composer / Trumpeter Jon Hassell
Learn more about Jon Hassell, then download three free tracks (see below), including one from his latest release Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street on ECM Records. Enjoy! About Jon Hassell Composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell is the visionary creator of a style of music he describes as Fourth World, a mysterious, ...
Quartet Base: Allo ?
by Mark F. Turner
Quartet Base is a free jazz chameleon. Viewing the group from multiple angles reveals different perspectives, each quite fascinating. Funk, rock, club, traditional, avant-garde and experimentation are like rapidly changing colors and contours of the group's changing skin. This ability is understood as the members are comprised of the Circum collective, a group of jazz musicians ...
