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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2014
by Henning Bolte
Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen July, 8-10, 2014 The ten-day Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with its 1,200 concerts, is maybe the largest of its kind in Europe. This number of concerts is the consequence of a unique concept. The core of the festival, with some international headliners, is a relatively small scale ...
Canterbury e dintorni secondo Ferdinando Faraò
by Claudio Bonomi
Fasano, solare cittadina pugliese in provincia di Brindisi, è da 17 anni teatro di un festival jazz eterodosso e controcorrente che, oltre a valorizzare talenti locali e a tenere alta la bandiera del jazz italiano (nel corso degli anni la rassegna ha ospitato, tra gli altri, Franco Cerri, Antonello Salis, Roberto Ottaviano, Franco D'Andrea, Stefano Bollani, ...
Hild Sofie Tafjord: Breathing
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian French horn player Hild Sofie Taford has re-written the instrument's sonic possibilities, in many previous free improvised formats that were fearless. She plays in the electro-acoustic free improv quartet SPUNK, the duo Fe-Mail (with Maja Ratkje of SPUNK) and the meeting of Fe-Mail with the prog- metallists of Enslaved in Trinacaria and collaborated with forward- ...
Moers Festival 2014
by Henning Bolte
Moers Festival Moers , GermanyJune, 6-9, 2014 Moers is a small city of about 100,000 inhabitants at the periphery of the former mining and industrial Ruhrpott area in Germany, about 40 km from the Dutch border and near the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf. Moers Festival, a four-day annual event always ...
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Play National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman will play the Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29. Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time. Courvoisier has led several groups over ...
Le musiche senza frontiere di Giovanni Venosta
by Claudio Bonomi
Classe 1961, Giovanni Venosta è una delle figure più originali dello scenario musicale del Bel Paese. Un manipolatore di suoni, uno sperimentatore innamorato del crossover, un geniale creatore di musiche per film che, e qui sta il paradosso, non ha mai preso una lezione di tecnica di composizione. Si diploma in pianoforte nel 1983 e, a ...
Matthias Schubert: 9 Compositions for The Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble
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by Glenn Astarita
Featuring an international cast, Matthias Schubert conducts a program that snugly resides in the avant-garde space. Each track is outlined in the liners, citing connotations, inspirations and homages, where it's up to the listener to connect the dots via his or her interpretations. It's a hybrid offering engineered with asymmetrical parts of classical, jazz improvisation, John ...
The Letter
By Fred Frith
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Soul of the Machine 2:12;
2. The Eyjafjallajökull Tango 6:48;
3. Drowning 4:04;
4. The Wedding 6:08;
5. The Letter 3:41;
6. Slings and Arrows 7:23;
7. Jitters 5:13;
8. For Lars Hollmer 8:03;
9. Emigrants 4:06;
10. Nobody Told Me 4:10;
11. Common Sense 7:15;
12. Soul of the Machine (reprise) 2:05.
Théo Ceccaldi Trio + Joëlle Léandre: Can You Smile?
by Eyal Hareuveni
Few years ago French double bass great player Joëlle Léandre recommended Ayler Records to sign the chamber string trio Théo Ceccaldi 3--Theo on violin, brother Valentin Ceccaldi on cello and Guillaume Aknine on the electric guitar. Last year, Ayler released the trio's impressive debut Carrousel. Now the trio pays its respects to Léandre, hosting her on ...
