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Portico Quartet: Not Particularly a Jazz Band
by Bruce Lindsay
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
November 2009
by AAJ Staff
Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred AndersonCommunity Church of New YorkNew York, NY October 16, 2009Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred Anderson are not quite of the same island. The same Chicago archipelago, sure, but Anderson has more hovered around than been an active member of the Association for the Advancement of ...
Joe Lovano, Evan Parker y CéU en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona (II)
by Joan Fargas
Era una de las grandes noches del festival la del 3 de noviembre. Bruce Lundvall, presidente de Blue Note, charlaba, un rato antes, con el crítico Bob Blumenthal sobre la historia de la discográfica. Tras su conferencia, regresaba a Barcelona el Joe Lovano Nonet. “Este noneto es una de las mejores bandas que he oído ...
ECM at 40: Remembering Weather Report/Lost on the Way/The Moment's Energy/Dresden
by Jeff Stockton
Miroslav Vitous Group w/ Michel Portal Remembering Weather Report ECM 2009 Louis Sclavis Lost on the Way ECM 2009 Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble The Moment's Energy ECM
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra i progetti di Evan Parker, l'Electro-Acoustic Ensemble riveste un ruolo di crescente centralità come “luogo" di sperimentazione, non solo perché l'organico si va progressivamente allargando - quattordici sono i musicisti coinvolti in questo nuovo disco registrato in occasione del Festival di Huddersfield del novembre 2007 - ma anche per il continuo ridefinirsi del rapporto tra ...
John Law: Deeper into the Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged. Historically, the idea of a so-called “third stream" that is able to combine the language of jazz and classical music into a coherent whole has proved rather difficult to translate into praxis, and yet it is undeniable that a ...
Evan Parker At The Stone
by Martin Longley
Evan Parker/Wu Fei/Joe McPheeThe StoneOctober 7, 2009 John Zorn's intimate venue, The Stone, bases its calendar around selections made by invited curators, but few of them elect to actually perform on all dates of their given stint. The English saxophonist Evan Parker chose to appear at every gig of ...
Stellari String Quartet: Gocce Stellari
by John Eyles
Over the years, Emanem has nobly championed the cause of improvising string players. Back in 2001, the label released the groundbreaking triple CD Strings with Evan Parker on which the majority of tracks actually featured strings without Parker's sax. Before that came Kent Carter's's string trio of bass, violin and viola. More recently, Emanem has released ...
Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar
by Guillem Vidal
Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954) comparece puntualmente a su cita con All About Jazz en una mesa del bar del Auditori de Barcelona contigua a la que ocupa en ese momento Horacio Fumero, el contrabajista de Tete Montoliu. Estamos entre el edificio donde el pianista imparte clases de improvisación en jazz y música contemporánea ("el ...
Clean Feed Records: Eat the Plate
by Mark Corroto
Clean Feed records, founded in 2001, has been the most prolific and adventurous label for jazz this new century. Based in Lisbon, Portugal their offerings have included many of jazz's old guard including reed players Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters Dennis Gonzalez and Herb Robertson, along with current ...
