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Antoine Karacostas: Insulary Tales

Read "Insulary Tales" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 17, 2019

Paris based pianist Antoine Karacostas may have set out to write the music for Insulary Tales to evoke the idea of insularity and one's individual response to the natural world around them, but in the end he's created an emotional, ten song cycle universal to us all. A recording of hushed, sustained beauty and ...

Article: My Playlist

Rosa Brunello

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 26, 2016

01. Radiohead -A Moon Shaped Pool -(XL Recordings -2016). Meditativo, quasi ipnotico. Perfetto per un viaggio in treno. 02. Carmen Consoli -Stato di necessità -(Polydor -2000). Dopo qualche tempo che non la ascoltavo, sono stata recentemente ad un concerto di Carmen Consoli. Così mi è venuta voglia di ri-ascoltare Stato di ...

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Enrico Pieranunzi, Federico Casagrande: Double Circle

Read "Double Circle" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
October 1, 2015

L'incontro tra la chitarra acustica e il pianoforte è sempre molto affascinante, oltre a essere anche piuttosto raro (qui in Italia, vanno ricordati quelli di Giancarlo Mazzù con Luciano Troja). Il duetto documentato su questo CD ha la particolarità di essere l'incontro anche di due diverse generazioni di musicisti jazz italiani, visto che al piano siede ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz and Joy Festival 2015

by Adriana Carcu
August 29, 2015

Jazz and Joy Festival 2015 Worms, Germany June 19-21, 2015 The Jazz and Joy Festival, located in the German town of Worms, celebrated its 25th anniversary. Not far from Frankfurt on Main, Worms carries an illustrious historical heritage, as the site of the Middle Age Nibelung Legend, which was later masterfully rendered ...

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Fulvio Sigurta: The Oldest Living Thing

Read "The Oldest Living Thing" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 6, 2015

The Oldest Living Thing is trumpeter and composer Sigurta's sixth album as leader or co-leader, his fourth for the Cam Jazz label. He's also recorded with pianist Francesco Turrisi and as a member of Nostalgia 77. For this album he's joined by acoustic guitarist Federico Casagrande (who shares writing duties) and Steve Swallow on electric bass. ...

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The Ancient Battle of the Invisible

By Federico Casagrande

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. 7 Roses; 02. Breeze; 03. Restless; 04. Arrowhead; 05. Speech; 06. Battlefield; 07. Fireplace; 08. Release; 09. Twilight. Tutte le composizioni sono di Federico Casagrande.

Article: Year in Review

Ian Patterson's Best Live Shows of 2012

by Ian Patterson
December 28, 2012

From Lao to the Palestinian Territories, from Borneo to Vietnam, from Kuala Lumpur to London, and from Singapore to France, it was a busy year as far as reviewing gigs went. There were many wonderful concerts and some worthy of mention include guitarist Federico Casagrande, pianist Nicolas Bouloukos, guitarist Jeremy Tjordman and Norwegian duo Albatrosh, but ...

Article: Live Review

OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival: Shenzhen, China, October 8-23, 2012

by Ian Patterson
November 20, 2012

OCT-LOFT Jazz FestivalShenzhen, ChinaOctober 8-23, 2012The OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival, in Shenzhen, Gaungdong Province, is one of the youngest jazz festivals in China, yet in just two editions it has already established itself as one of the best. Financially, it can't compete with the Shanghai Jazz Festival, which for its 2012 edition attracted renowned ...

Article: My Playlist

10 CD nel CD- Player di... Federico Casagrande

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 25, 2012

01. Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian - Live at Birdland (ECM - 2011). Adorabile poesia dell'equilibrio. Ognuno di questi musicisti fa impallidire per lo spessore di ogni singolo gesto musicale. 02. Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual (Blue Note - 2000). Uno dei miei dischi preferiti da anni; da viaggiatore assiduo ma terrorizzato ...

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Federico Casagrande: The Ancient Battle of the Invisible

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 4, 2012

Nel precedente Spirit of the Mountains, Federico Casagrande ci aveva deliziato conun'idea di guitar-trio piuttosto lontana da esasperati tecnicismi e da rutilanti effetti speciali, puntando piuttosto sulla capacità di tradurre idee musicali attraverso la ricerca di un suono e di un pensiero personale. Questo The Ancient Battle of the Invisible prosegue idealmente il sentiero allora tracciato ...