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Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Oliver Lake): Visiting Texture

by Giuseppe Segala
Ecco l'ennesimo capitolo della pregnante avventura del Trio 3, iniziata una trentina di anni fa con l'incontro di questi titani della musica e dell'improvvisazione contemporanea. Personalità forti, che nell'incontro hanno saldato una sintonia matura fin dal primo momento, ma nel corso del tempo sempre più organica e dialettica, tra libertà e rigore. Vengono alla ...
Trio 3: Visiting Texture

by John Sharpe
For a band whose moniker puts such emphasis on the number of its participants, another release featuring the core threesome of saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Andrew Cyrille has been a long time coming. Not since the outstanding Time Being (Intakt, 2007) in fact, with subsequent albums matching them with an eye catching ...
Omar Sosa Residency at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
Omar Sosa Residency SFJAZZ Spring Season San Francisco, CA April 21-23, 2017 You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cuban-born pianist's overall demeanor exudes a sense of calm and deep reflection, while a spiritual connection to music and his ancestors comes ...
Riccardo Brazzale - Direttore Artistico di Vicenza Jazz

by Libero Farnè
Nel mondo del jazz italiano Riccardo Brazzale è un personaggio ben noto per le attività interconnesse che da decenni svolge con competente coerenza. Innanzi tutto dirige con chiarezza di concezione la Lydian Sound Orchestra, larga formazione attiva dal 1989 e con una decina di CD al suo attivo, che raccoglie alcuni protagonisti dell'ambito veneto. ...
The Politics of Dancing: Jazz and Protest, Part 2

by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 of Jazz and Protest took an in-depth look at two landmark artists and the songs that laid the groundwork for protest within the jazz community. Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit" took a circuitous route from its origins as a poem to its successful recording on a small label that was not afraid to lend a ...
Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2016

by Troy Collins
Compiling end of the year lists is never easy. Considering the quantity of recordings released in a year's time, attempting to compose a list mentioning every first-rate session would be difficult at best. These ten albums represent a fertile cross-section of some of the most compelling modern jazz issued in 2016. Many of the records listed ...
Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

by Lazaro Vega
This interview was first published at All About Jazz in November 2000 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press, 224 pgs.), is Music Editor at VH1, and was the primary editor ...
McCoy Tyner Tribute at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
McCoy Tyner Tribute Symphony Hall SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA June 19, 2016 At 8:05 PM on a Sunday evening, the lights dimmed and a master of the jazz piano took the stage at Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. A standing ovation greeted the 77-year-old who, after seating ...
Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”

by Victor L. Schermer
The griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician, a repository of oral tradition who is often seen as a societal leader. Saxophonist Greg Osby recently was excited to meet some griots on his travels. While he is originally from St. Louis, he himself is a griot in many senses of the ...
Vicenza Jazz: fra Italia e America

by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz 2016 Varie sedi 06-14.05.2016 Di nuovo in viaggio verso la libertà" era il titolo programmatico del festival veneto, sempre sotto la direzione artistica di Riccardo Brazzale: un titolo che da un lato presuppone un'identità forte e storica del jazz, dall'altro sprona in modo propositivo e benaugurale a tenere sempre ben ...