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Nicholas Urie: Excerpts From An Online Dating Service
by Eyal Hareuveni
Young and gifted American composer/conductor Nicholas Urie had a brilliant idea. Basing his debut suite, Excerpts From An Online Dating Service, on real Internet personal ads collected from cities all over United States and Canada, Urie attempts to transform these coded messages into poetic statements about the current human condition. This is implied by poet and ...
The American Dream
Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: We Get Crazy; Speech; Names; "There..."; The American Dream; Loop;
Echo I; Sentences; Time; Echo II; Be At That; If Ever There Is.
Frank Carlberg
by AAJ Italy Staff
01. Steve Lacy - The Way (HatArt - 1979). Lacy è una delle figure più importanti degli ultimi trent'anni di jazz e di musica improvvisata. The Way è uno dei suoi primi brani estesi. E' fresco, crudo, pieno di energia e contiene assoli sublimi di Lacy... ascoltatelo attentamente in “Troubles"!!!! 02. Stevie Wonder - Songs in ...
Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra: The Best is Yet to Come
by Barbara Salter Nelson
For many people, the bonds forged at college serve as the foundation for lifelong friendships; bonds that often keep like- minded friends committing to get together once in awhile to share passions. The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra (JCO) was created along these lines, but instead of getting together for the occasional game of golf or ...
Frank Carlberg: The American Dream
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si contano numerosi e piuttosto riusciti gli omaggi da parte del mondo jazzistico all'arte poetica di Robert Creeley. Ultimo in ordine di tempo quel So There a nome Steve Swallow, che vide esibirsi Creeley pochi giorni prima della sua scomparsa. The American Dream è un poema in dodici parti basato su altrettante liriche di Robert Creeley, ...
Frank Carlberg: The American Dream
by Eyal Hareuveni
The poetry of Robert Creeley (1926-2005) has been arranged a few times in jazz settings and acknowledges the music's strong influence on his work. The late saxophonist Steve Lacy arranged the introspective and laconic verses of Creeley into an almost operatic setting in Futurities (Hat Hut, 1985) and later on The Beat Suite (Universal, 2003). In ...
Frank Carlberg: State of the Union
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo gruppo potrebbe essere definito il quintetto stabile di Frank Carlberg visto che, salvo minime variazioni, opera ed incide dal lontano 1996. Oltre al leader, pianista e compositore di origine finlandese, membri stabili sono il notevole sassofonista Chris Cheek e la cantante di origine indiana Christine Correa. L’ensemble si muove, quindi, a meraviglia e con grande ...
In the Land of Art
Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Misery Poesy 2. Hills 3. Nowhere One Goes 4. In the Land of Art 5. The Act 6. Better on Your Arse 7. Asparagus 8. This is the Gallows 9. Fat Rate (Be at That) 10. Wit in Fools 11. Pull my Daisy
Frank Carlberg: In the Land of Art
by Elliott Simon
The beat poets and writers of the '50s idolized the bop players of their day. Jazz served as a template for their compositional methods, performing styles and as soundtrack to their writings. This adulation may not have gone both ways, though, as a quote attributed to Miles Davis indicates: “The Beat Generation ain't nothin' but just ...
