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Zlatko Kaućić: Diversity

by Mark Corroto
This 5-CD box Diversity was produced to honor Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič's 40 years in music. It is many things, but what it is not, is a career retrospective. How could it be? For quite awhile the drummer was a nomad, moving to Barcelona in 1976, then Amsterdam where he absorbed the new Dutch swing. His ...
Tomasz Dabrowski Ad Hoc: Ninjazz

by Troy Dostert
Although he has built an impressive resume working with well-known avant-gardists like Evan Parker, Tyshawn Sorey, Kris Davis and Andrew Drury (with the latter two appearing on his 2014 release, Vermillion Tree ), Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski went in a different direction for his current project, Ninjazz. With the title a portmanteau of Ninja" and jazz," ...
Binker Golding & Elliot Galvin: Ex Nihilo

by Luke Seabright
Ex Nihilo sees the pairing of two British rising stars: Elliot Galvin on piano and Binker Golding, (one half of the acclaimed Binker and Moses) on saxophones. Communication is at the heart of most improvised music, and a duo strips this communication down to its most fundamental unit: the dialogue. Here the two converse with remarkable ...
Music For David Mossman

By Evan Parker
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Music For David Mossman I; Music For David Mossman II; Music For David Mossman III; Music For David Mossman IV.
Francesco Martinelli: European Jazz - Tales of Etruscan Vases, Arias And Resistance

by Ian Patterson
Few have attempted to tackle the history of European jazz in any meaningful way. That's hardly surprising given the size of the task. How do you address the jazz history of over forty countries in a succinct and logical manner? How do you manage to throw light on all the major personalities at the ...
Jazz & Wine of Peace 2018

by Luciano Rossetti
Photos from the 2018 Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival, held in Cormons and various other locations in the Collio Friulano" and in Slovenia, from October 21st to October 28th. The festival featured, among others, Avishai Cohen, Giancarlo Schiaffini, The Bad Plus, Evan Parker, Arild Andersen, John Scofield, Egberto Gismonti, The Thing, The Art Ensemble of ...
Jazz&Wine of Peace Festival 2018

by Neri Pollastri
Jazz&Wine of Peace Festival Cormons, Collio friulano e Brda slovena Teatro Comunale, varie sedi in cantine e sale 24-28.10.2018 Superato lo scorso anno il traguardo delle venti edizioni, il Jazz&Wine of Peace 2018 non ha abbassato l'asticella, proseguendo nel suo progetto che coniuga altissimo livello dei concerti, varietà stilistica ...
John Butcher

by John Eyles
In the Building a Jazz Library article on Evan Parker, it says that seasoned Parker followers would describe him as the finest improvising saxophonist of his generation. Curiously, many of those same people would use exactly that phrase about John Butcher. The simple explanation for this apparent contradiction is that we are talking about two generations; ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach / Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 50 Years

by John Sharpe
The internet. Mobile phones. Social media. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. A lot's happened over the last 50 years. When pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach first assembled the Globe Unity Orchestra in the autumn of 1966, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk still walked the earth. The GUO was one of the first expressions of ...
Not Two...But Twenty! Festival

by John Sharpe
Not Two...But Twenty! Festival Wlen, Poland September 21-23, 2018 Intro There are some things worth celebrating in style, one of them being marked persistence in the face of adversity. That pretty much describes the continued existence of any jazz record label in these straitened times. To mark its 20th ...