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Article: Extended Analysis

Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu

Read "Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu" reviewed by John Kelman


With only four records released as a leader on ECM, it may seem a little early to release a “best of" disc for drummer Manu Katché. But having since moved on to fellow German label ACT for Live in Concert, while Touchstone for Manu is only being released in North America in the summer of 2015, ...

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Article: Album Review

Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon: Perpetual Motion

Read "Perpetual Motion" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The composer, poet and instrument inventor Louis Thomas Hardin, alias Moondog remains one of the most celebrated and eccentric figures in the annals of modern music. The Kansas born Hardin, who lost his sight in a farming accident at 16, went from a unique street performer in New York to a published and recorded influential musician ...

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Article: Album Review

Kuku: Ballads & Blasphemy

Read "Ballads & Blasphemy" reviewed by James Nadal


Yorubaland is a region of southwest Nigeria which extends into parts of Benin and Togo. It is the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba people, and remains a vital source of cultural identity, especially spiritual music and rhythms. Kuku is a singer/songwriter who though born in the United States, is a Yoruba Nigerian, now residing in Paris. ...

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Article: Live Review

Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Saxophonists Lew Tabackin, James Carter, Craig Handy

Read "Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Saxophonists Lew Tabackin, James Carter, Craig Handy" reviewed by Patricia Myers


Lew Tabackin, James Carter, Craig Handy Sunside-Sunset/Duc des Lombards Paris, France July 8, July 11, July 12, 2015 Getting great sax in Paris was a sure thing this summer with three American tenor titans Lew Tabackin, James Carter and Craig Handy performing within three soul-satisfying weeks. In the fewest words: Tabackin ...

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Article: Album Review

The Kandinsky Effect: Somnambulist

Read "Somnambulist" reviewed by Vic Albani


Smanacciando in fondo al barile dei ricordi, molti “giovani recensori di mezza età" di questo lavoro, sentenziano che, comunque sia, trattasi di un gruppo e di un disco post-moderno. Credo sia ormai un classico del quando non si trovino agganci essenziali o illuminanti neologismi, rispolverare un'aggettivazione che sembra ormai entrata nello standard delle ...

Article: Interview

Matteo Pastorino: nome nuovo del clarinetto

Read "Matteo Pastorino: nome nuovo del clarinetto" reviewed by Libero Farnè


..."un clarinettista deciso e inventivo del quale risentiremo parlare." Con queste parole nell'agosto 2008 concludevo la mia recensione di Time in Sassari su questa rivista. Il clarinettista era Matteo Pastorino, allora diciannovenne, e in quell'occasione si esibiva all'interno dell'ottetto Viento Rojo, che raccoglieva i giovani più promettenti fra quelli che avevano frequentato i corsi di Nuoro ...

Article: Album Review

Matteo Pastorino Quartet: V

Read "V" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Ventiseienne sardo trasferitosi (si spera temporaneamente) a Parigi, Matteo Pastorino è un clarinettista dalle solide basi (ha studiato prima con Paolo Fresu, poi al conservatorio di Parigi, infine a Siena Jazz) e già con una rosa di premi che ne testimoniano le qualità. Quelle stesse che emergono tangibilmente all'ascolto di questo CD nel quale è alla ...

Article: Album Review

Riccardo Del Fra: My Chet My Song

Read "My Chet My Song" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Non ancora sessantenne e dai primi anni Ottanta residente a Parigi, ove da molto tempo insegna al conservatorio, il contrabbassista romano Riccardo Del Fra ha alle spalle una carriera di grande spessore, iniziata con l'incontro, nel 1979, con Chet Baker, insieme al quale ha suonato per nove anni realizzando dodici album. E al grande e tormentato ...

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News: Recording

Bar De Nuit (Night Bar) New Album by Daniel Roure

Bar De Nuit (Night Bar) New Album by Daniel Roure

French cabaret, French pop and chanson have a long and rich history, from Edith Piaf’s classic recordings of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s to the soundtrack of the 1966 film Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman). And in recent years, the chanson tradition has been kept alive by younger vocalists such as ...

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Article: Live Review

Joan Minor at Cercle Suedois

Read "Joan Minor at Cercle Suedois" reviewed by Patricia Myers


Joan Minor Quartet Cercle Suedois Paris, France May 13, 2015 The jazz scene in Paris thrives with a wide mixture of venues, from small cafes to large halls to more sophisticated settings. Among the latter is Cercle Suedois, the Swedish community's swanky meeting place that schedule weekly jazz concerts.


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