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Farmers By Nature

Festival Season: From Newport to the North Sea

by David Brown
August 2, 2022

This week, a survey of recordings from jazz festivals past and present: Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, Montreux Jazz Festival & Jazz Festival Willisau in Switzerland, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Essen Jazz Festival in West Germany, Festival of Improvised Music in France, East-West Festival in Nuremberg Germany, and the North Sea Jazz Festival in the ...

Roberto "Zizzi" Zanetti, Orrin Evans, and Michael Formanek

by Bob Osborne
November 8, 2018

From Verona, Italy Roberto “Zizzi" Zanetti takes us on a trip through the jazz of the Roaring Twenties paying homage to the music innovators who flourished during the social and political problems of the Prohibition Era. Orrin Evans raises the temperature with live recordings from his large ensemble The Captain Black Big Band and Michael Formanek ...

Marilyn Lerner / Ken Filiano / Lou Grassi: Live At Edgefest

by John Sharpe
April 28, 2016

Three stalwarts of the improvised music scene combine to persuasive effect on the limited edition LP Live At Edgefest. An excellent sound allows Canadian pianist Marilyn Lerner and the NYC-based pairing of bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Lou Grassi to be heard as part of a truly egalitarian collective. A strong group dynamic is evident straight ...

Love and Ghosts

By Farmers By Nature

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2014
Track listing:
CD A–Marseille:
Love and Ghosts; Without a Name; Aquilo; Seven Years In; Massalia.
CD B–Besançon:
The Green City; Bisanz; Comté; Castle #2; Les Flaneurs.

Farmers by Nature: Love and Ghosts

by Libero Farnè
December 22, 2014

Ecco un sodalizio che gli appassionati della libera improvvisazione afro-americana non possono permettersi di ignorare. Il doppio CD riporta infatti due esibizioni dal vivo (a Marsiglia il 27 giugno 2011, a Besançon il giorno dopo) del trio paritario Farmers by Nature, composto da protagonisti assoluti di questo genere. Nei dieci brani, prevalentemente lunghi, vengono ...

Joe Morris / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver: Altitude

by John Sharpe
September 4, 2012

Guitarist Joe Morris is on a roll. Hardly a month goes by without a new release featuring the Boston-based musician. Of course, he doubled his chances by adding acoustic bass to his armory alongside his six-stringed axe. It's the latter he wields on this trio date featuring bassist William Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver, captured at ...

Vision Festival, NYC, Days 6-7: June 16-17, 2012

by John Sharpe
August 14, 2012

Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 | Days 6-717th Annual Vision FestivalRouletteBrooklyn, NYJune 16-17, 2012 Chapter Index June 16: Steve Swell Quintet / Trio 3 / Jason Kao Hwang Burning Bridge June 17: Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House / Burnt Sugar Holy Ghost & Fire / Rob Brown/Daniel ...

Vision Festival, Days 1-2: June 11-12, 2012

by John Sharpe
July 27, 2012

Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 | Days 6-717th Annual Vision FestivalRouletteBrooklyn, NYJune 11-17, 2012For the 17th annual Vision Festival, organizer Patricia Nicholson Parker and her team had assembled one of strongest lineups in many years. Alongside many luminaries of the New York free jazz firmament, including accomplished working bands ...

Pascal Niggenkemper: Upcoming Hurricane

by John Sharpe
February 15, 2012

Since German/French bassist Pascal Niggenkemper moved to New York in 2005 he has become increasingly prominent on the contemporary scene. Alliances with Thomas Heberer’s Clarino on Klippe (Clean Feed, 2011), Joe Hertenstein’s HNH (Clean Feed, 2010), the cooperative polylemma (Red Toucan, 2011), and Jean Carla Rodea’s Azares, with whom he appeared at the 2010 Vision Festival, ...