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Archie Shepp's Kickstarter For New "Attica Blues" Project
Archie Shepp launches a Kickstarter campaign to finalize funding on a new Attica Blues Band live album recording. Forty years after his masterpiece Attica Blues, recorded with a big band of 39 musicians and in which he highlights social injustices faced by African Americans, Shepp returns with a brand new big band composed of 26 musicians ...
Manu Codjia / Geraldine Laurent / Christophe Marguet: Looking For Parker
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
It's very much a trio of equals that recorded Looking For Parker, but alto saxophonist Géraldine Laurent sometimes muscles her way out front. This is partly just the nature of the horn, and partly because she plays the same instrument as Charlie Parker, to whose music the record is dedicated. And most of all, Laurent, more ...
La Pieuvre and Circum Grand Orchestra: Feldspath
by Eyal Hareuveni
is a French project, documented on a double album, that brings together two already large ensembles--the conducted improvisation ensemble La Pieuvre and the contemporary jazz ensemble Circum Grand Orchestra--32 musicians and all, conducted by composer Oliver Benoit. But this unique and rare project is not only about creating massive orchestral sounds. It is a bold attempt ...
Kyle Eastwood: The View From Here
by Glenn Astarita
Bassist Kyle Eastwood frequently integrates a cinematic contour into his body of work. And true to form, he's contributed music to eight of his famous father, actor, and director Clint Eastwood's films. The bassist's output can be characterized by tuneful hooks, calmly soaring opuses, and countered by odd-metered time signatures, clement flows, and passionate soloing spots. ...
"Global Circulation of Jazz" International Conference set for June 27-28, 2013 in Paris
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Thursday 27 & Friday 28 of June 2013 2:00-9:00 & 9:30 - 7:00 Salle de cinéma Free entrance An international conference entitled “Global Circulations of Jazz" will be held on June 27-28, 2013, at the musée du quai Branly. Bringing together specialists, anthropologists, historians, musicologists, sociologists, ...
Sudo Quartet: Live at Banlieue Bleue
by John Sharpe
Such is the strength and conviction with which the Sudo Quartet performs that thoughts immediately turn to how they developed such a cohesive group sound. With no liners and no information on the web, the genesis of the unit remains a mystery, though the same foursome feature on four tracks on bassist Joelle Leandre's At the ...
Denis Fournier / Nicole Mitchell: Watershed
by John Sharpe
Flautist Nicole Mitchell has found a supportive outlet in the Paris-based Rogue Art imprint, with her past outings including Anaya (2009), Emerald Hills (2010), The Ethiopian Princess Meets The Tantric Priest (2012) and Arc Of O (2012), and she is the most well-known name on Watershed. However she sits second in the billing below French percussionist ...
Vincent Peirani: Thrill Box
by Bruce Lindsay
Thrill Box is Vincent Peirani's debut release on the ACT Music label. Its title refers to Peirani's instrument of choice, the accordion. For many, the accordion springs most readily to mind as an East European folk instrument, for others it evokes images of Morris dancers on warm English spring evenings (although that's more usually the concertina) ...
Matthieu Metzger: SelfCooking
by Eyal Hareuveni
SelfCooking offers a glimpse into the busy mind of a restless musician, French saxophonist Matthieu Metzger. Deep thoughts about weird compositions that have lurked in his memory, accidental explorations while playing with the extended family of saxophones and the joyful cooking of sonic textures, spiced with electronic treatments, some are his own design of real time ...
Joelle Leandre & Jerome Bourdellon: Evidence
by Glenn Astarita
Bass and flute represent significant tonal contrasts and here, flutist Jerome Bourdellon and world-renowned bassist, composer and improviser Joelle Leandre divulge innumerable perspectives and quite a bit of food for thought on these duets. However, Bourdellon employs bass clarinet and bass flute on two tracks, as no other instruments are nestled into the mid-sections of the ...
