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John Sharpe's Best Releases Of 2017
by John Sharpe
Here are ten new releases and two partial reissues, reviewed on All About Jazz, which stood out among the 200 or so discs that I heard this year. Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary HalvorsonCrop Circles (Relative Pitch Records) Over the last fifteen years or more, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist ...
Music From Out There, In Here: 25 Years Of The London Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
Music From Out There, In Here: 25 Years Of The London Jazz Festival Emma Webster, George McKay 136 Pages University Of East Anglia 2017 There was a time when London had more jazz festivals than you could shake a stick at. Most, however, have disappeared, leaving the London Jazz Festival, ...
Benoît Delbecq e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
Il tratto principale della mia musica La sonorità. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La generosità. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Quando ho incontrato Mal Waldron, a 17 anni, nel 1983. Come musicista, il mio ...
Mat Maneri: Sounding Tears
by John Sharpe
In the wake of Evan Parker's 2013 and 2014 residencies at New York's The Stone, a slew of tremendous recordings has emerged showcasing the British saxophonist's encounters with the luminaries of the downtown scene. Prominent among them are Miller's Tale (Intakt, 2016) with the electronics of Ikue Mori, violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, Either, ...
36th International Tampere Jazz Happening
by John Ephland
36th International Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland November 2-5, 2017 They were the winner of this year's Europe Jazz Network (EJN) Award for Adventurous Programming. Receiving the award at April's jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Tampere Jazz Happening and Artistic Director Juhamatti Kauppinen celebrated what has become 35 years of top-drawer programming. The ...
Ivo Perelman Makes It Rain
by Mark Corroto
If music was sports, then Ivo Perelman would be baseball and most other musicians football. Where football's regular season is 16 games, baseball plays 162. Likewise, most musicians release one album every year or two, but Perelman has averaged seven titles per year for the last seven years. His 2017 Leo Records output is thirteen (fourteen, ...
Bob Gluck & Tani Tabbal: At This Time: Duets
by Karl Ackermann
Bob Gluck is a gifted composer of electronic and acoustic music, as well as an educator and writer. As a pianist/keyboardist he has offered innovative and intensely creative modern jazz, finding inspiration in the familiar and the obscure. He has collaborated with Michael Bisio, Jane Ira Bloom, Ken Filiano, and many other top-tier artists. With Billy ...
Mike Osborne: Force Of Nature - Part 1-2
by Barry Witherden
Part 1 | Part 2 Some three-and-a-half minutes into Release, the Deram recording of Mike Westbrook's seminal suite mixing Swing classics with Westbrook originals, after a scorching solo by John Surman on “The Few," an alto saxophone cadenza emerged from a free ensemble passage: the tone was penetrating, incisive, severe, the phrasing intense, passionate ...
Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2017
by Angelo Leonardi
Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2017 Smartno, Slovenia 14-16.09.2017 Nel suo appuntamento annuale a Šmartno, sulle colline del Collio sloveno poco oltre Gorizia, il “Brda Contemporary Music Festival" continua a presentare il meglio della musica improvvisata europea. Un piccolo ma significativo evento giunto alla settima edizione, che raccoglie un affezionato pubblico ...
Rova Saxophone Quartet: Steve Lacy’s Saxophone Special Revisited
by Mark Corroto
If you own a copy of the original Saxophone Special (Emanem, 1975), flip the LP over to view a photocopy of Steve Lacy's original notebook (with spiral binding) score of the compositions “Staples," “Swishes," and “Snaps." This is all music he performed at Wigmore Hall in London in December 1974 in a saxophone quartet that included ...
