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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019

by John Kelman
July 5, 2019

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...

News: Festival

Lineup Announced For 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival 18th Edition

March 20, 2019

Producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona today announced the full lineup for the 2019 nine-day CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival. Now in its 18th year, the festival will be held June 21 to 29 and present more than 320+ shows including a record 100+ free shows and 1500+ artists from around the world performing in 20 ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Wendel: The Seasons

Read "The Seasons" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 11, 2019

L'evoluzione del progetto The Seasons di Ben Wendel trova organica espressione in un nuovo collettivo. La prima realizzazione è avvenuta nel 2015, con dodici duo-performance (pubblicate su YouTube) effettuate con altrettanti partner: Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Ambrose Akinmusire, Julian Lage ecc... Le composizioni sono state arrangiate l'anno successivo per dei concerti in quintetto alla Jazz Gallery ...

Article: Album Review

Aaron Parks: Little Big

Read "Little Big" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 4, 2019

Dopo un decennio caratterizzato da svariate collaborazioni, esibizioni pianistiche in solo (Arborescence) e in differenti trio (Alive in Japan e Find The Way), Aaron Parks torna a un pieno ruolo di compositore e leader sviluppando l'estetica del celebrato Invisible Cinema. Protagonista è un quartetto d'identica strumentazione ma con nuovi partner: il chitarrista neozelandese ...

Article: Year in Review

Il Meglio del 2018 Secondo Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
January 29, 2019

Anche quest'anno, faticosamente e responsabilmente, ho selezionato tra i miei numerosi ascolti dodici dischi e dieci concerti che potessero essere considerati se non “i migliori," quantomeno “tra i migliori." La selezione è fatalmente influenzata non solo dalle mie predilezioni (non si può ascoltar tutto e fatalmente ci si concentra su ciò che per qualche ragione ci ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ben Wendel Live At BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
January 28, 2019

Ben Wendel, saxophonist of Kneebody and forerunner of the current jazz generation, presents music from his YouTube project Seasons, a remarkable video series on YouTube: 12 duets, composed for and dedicated to 12 musicians he admires, released over 12 months. The project was inspired by the eponymous series of piano duos by Tchaikovsky. Ben ...

Article: Year in Review

2018: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 3, 2019

The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...

Album

Ask For Chaos

By Gilad Hekselman

Label: Hexophonic Music/Motéma
Released: 2018
Track listing: Prologuoooo1 101; VBlues; It Will Get Better; Tokyo Cookie; Stumble; Milton; Home To You; Little Song For You; Clap Clap; Do Re Mi Fa Sol.

Article: Year in Review

Friedrich Kunzmann's 2018 Top 5: A fine year for the ECM catalogue

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 11, 2018

When looking back at the year one won't find more peace or joy than on the musical side of things. For in this realm there are nor real losers. Here, disappointment is relative and success is all over the place because everyone is trying to be their best possible selves, constantly on a path of self-improvement ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Wendel: The Seasons

Read "The Seasons" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 5, 2018

For many centuries composers have set to music the different seasons each new year has to offer (lately, some show the tendency of disappearing more and more. Seasons, not composers). Baroque composer Vivaldi's very straightforward division in four on “Le Quattro Stagioni" has to be one of the most prominent examples. Saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel ...