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Open Jazz Festival 2015
by Alberto Bazzurro
Teatro Giacosa, Sala S. Marta e Spazio Bianco Ivrea 19-21.03.2015 Dopo tanti anni di decentramento, e dopo la non indolore decurtazione della sua costola autunnale, l'Open Jazz Festival si è ripresentato al via in quest'inizio di primavera 2015 concentrando l'intero programma su Ivrea. Alla base di tutto c'è ovviamente ...
Eric Hofbauer Quintet: Prehistoric Jazz – Volumes 1 & 2
by Mark F. Turner
With sure workmanship and untamed inquisitiveness, Boston-based guitarist Eric Hofbauer is no stranger to confronting unusual yet stimulating music. Examples include 2008's uncharacteristic guitar duo The Lady of Khartoum with Garrison Fewell or the striking American solo series--American Vanity (2004), American Fear (2010) and American Grace (2013)--which crossed distinctive terrains of improvisation and covers of iconic ...
Eric Hofbauer Quintet: Prehistoric Jazz – Volumes 1 & 2
by Alberto Bazzurro
L'emergente chitarrista bostoniano Eric Hofbauer, docente di strumento, composizione e storia del jazz all'Emerson College & University del Rhode Island, un palmares di collaborazioni che spazia da Han Bennink a John Tchicai, Garrison Fewell e Cecil McBee, Steve Swell e Matt Wilson, ha inciso nell'aprile 2014 questi due album, dedicati rispettivamente al Sacre du printemps di ...
Variable Density Sound Orchestra: Evolving Strategies
by John Sharpe
The constituent parts of guitarist Garrison Fewell's Variable Density Sound Orchestra shifted gradually between its eponymous inception (Creative Nation, 2008) and sophomore effort on Sound Particle 47 (Creative Nation, 2010). Inevitably there will be further changes in the future if the unit continues, as both trumpeter Roy Campbell and reedman John Tchicai have passed on since ...
Per voce e dirimpettaio
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un tempo i duetti con protagonista la voce che esulassero dal classico contesto del canto accompagnato dal pianoforte erano merce piuttosto rara. Oggi molto meno. Tre album usciti grosso modo simultaneamente vengono prontamente a confermarcelo. Il contesto è generalmente sperimentale, e questi tre lavori non fanno eccezione. Andreas Schaerer, Lucas Niggli
Jazz & Wine of Peace 2014
by Angelo Leonardi
Jazz & Wine of Peace 2014 Cormons: 18-26.10.2014 Giunto alla 17ma edizione, il Jazz & Wine of Peace di Cormons si colloca tra i migliori festival nazionali, coniugando ricercate scelte musicali con la valorizzazione del territorio: in primis la rinomata produzione enologica del Collio. Organizzato dal Comune e dal ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Garrison Fewell
All About Jazz is celebrating Garrison Fewell's birthday today! “The guitarist formerly known as one of Boston\'s most eloquent inside players has become one of its leading experimenters," writes Boston Phoenix\'s Jon Garelick, who included Fewell\'s ensemble, the Variable Density Sound Orchestra, on his best of 2009 list. Fewell, a professor at Berklee College since 1977, ...
Tchicai - Kohlhase - Fewell - McBee - Hart: Tribal Ghost
by John Sharpe
Of all the collaborations in the later years of legendary reedman John Tchicai, some of the most fertile were in the company of guitarist Garrison Fewell, whether under the Dane's leadership like One Long Minute (NuBop, 2012) and Big Chief Dreaming (Soul Note, 2005) or in undocumented appearances with the guitarist's Variable Density Sound Orchestra. Joining ...
Tchicai - Kohlhase - Fewell - McBee - Hart: Tribal Ghost
by Glenn Astarita
Late saxophonist John Tchicai's roots and influences emanated with the 1960s innovative free-jazz ensemble, The New York Art Quartet. He became a significant global artist in all things considered to be cutting-edge within the ever-expansive jazz vernacular. This 2007 concert, recorded at the New York City venue Birdland, features compositions by guitarist Garrison Fewell and one ...
