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Article: Album Review

Tom Tallitsch: All Together Now

Read "All Together Now" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


All Together Now--the sixth overall effort from tenor saxophonist Tom Tallitsch, and his third for the Posi-tone imprint--is a well-balanced musical affair built around a surefooted and wholly capable sextet. Tallitsch works with a rhythm section and two other horns here, creating smart and uncluttered settings that showcase the musicians without boxing them ...

Article: Book Review

Frank Zappa. Rock come prassi compositiva

Read "Frank Zappa. Rock come prassi compositiva" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Frank Zappa. Rock come prassi compositiva Giordano Montecchi 144 Pagine ISBN: 978-8862313773 Arcana 2014 Sono sempre più numerosi i libri su Frank Zappa pubblicati dopo la sua scomparsa avvenuta oltre 20 anni fa, ma la maggior parte si limita a esaminare l'aspetto biografico del personaggio, spesso da parte di ...

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Brilliant Corners Jazz FestivalBelfast, Ireland March 25-28 , 2015 Brilliant Corners may not be the biggest jazz festival in Northern Ireland--that accolade belongs to the City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival--but in just three editions it can already lay claim to being the best. Eschewing the populist ...

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Article: Jazz Art

Ziga Koritnik and The Eye

Read "Ziga Koritnik and The Eye" reviewed by John Kelman


In a time when cameras are more pervasive and invasive than they've ever been--with iPhones, iPads, Androids and low-price point-and-shoot devices lending the impression that everyone is a photographer--photo artists like Žiga Koritnik, paradoxically, stand out more than ever. Sure, anyone can take a picture, but to get to the heart of a subject and truly ...

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Article: Album Review

Marius Neset: Pinball

Read "Pinball" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Though Marius Neset thrives in small ensemble settings, his writing has increasingly exhibited orchestral ambition, as witnessed on the thrilling Birds (Edition Records, 2013), which saw his quintet augmented by brass, accordion and woodwind instruments to spectacular effect, and on Lion (ACT Music, 2014), a powerful outing with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. The aptly named Pinball ...

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Article: Interview

Mauro Ottolini: Sousaphonix and Beyond

Read "Mauro Ottolini: Sousaphonix and Beyond" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il Sousaphonix di Mauro Ottolini non ha bisogno di presentazioni. È una delle formazioni italiane più appassionanti e creative dell'ultimo decennio, dalla musica saldamente ancorata alla tradizione del jazz (fino a comprendere gli albori) e aperta a mille stimoli, dal rock all'avanguardia. In questi giorni è stato pubblicato il loro terzo album, Musica per ...

Article: Album Review

Ernie Watts: A Simple Truth

Read "A Simple Truth" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


In una carriera professionale di quasi mezzo secolo (iniziò nella metà degli anni sessanta con Buddy Rich) gran parte del lavoro di Ernie Watts è stato svolto negli studi di registrazione partecipando a centinaia d'incisioni (anche di Marvin Gaye, Frank Zappa, Chaka Khan, Barbra Streisand etc...). Le sue credenziali jazz si sono sviluppate nei ranghi delle ...

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Article: Interview

Steven Wilson: Intuitive Indulgences and Pop Proclivities

Read "Steven Wilson: Intuitive Indulgences and Pop Proclivities" reviewed by John Kelman


The trajectory of Steven Wilson's career, since stepping away from his longtime band Porcupine Tree to go solo, has been nothing short of remarkable. Since interviewing him in 2012 for the release of Get All You Deserve (Kscope, 2012)--an audio and video document of his world tour in support of Grace for Drowning (Kscope, 2011), his ...

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Article: Album Review

Zeitgeber Ensemble: Resalio

Read "Resalio" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Reselio vede all'opera lo Zeitgeber Ensemble, ampio gruppo (ma i tredici musicisti non suonano mai tutti assieme) diretto dal sassofonista e compositore pugliese Giacomo Eramo che sviluppa il lavoro svolto a partire dal 2005 da un omonimo quintetto, la continuità con il quale è fornita dalla comune presenza di Davide Merlino, Andrea Campagnolo, Simone Prando e ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sanguine Hum: Now We Have Light

Read "Sanguine Hum: Now We Have Light" reviewed by John Kelman


Sometimes things take a long time to gestate in the minds of musicians, but Sanguine Hum may well be eligible for entry in the Guinness Book of World Records-- if there was such a category (and if there isn't, perhaps now there should be)--for Longest Time to Bring a Musical Concept to Fruition. OK, it's a ...


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