Results for "Hamid Drake"

Firenze Jazz Festival 2021

by Neri Pollastri
September 30, 2021

Firenze Jazz Festival Firenze Varie sedi 8-12.9.2021 Il Firenze Jazz Festival ha proposto quest'anno un numero impressionante di appuntamenti, ben trenta, spalmati su quattro giorni più l'anteprima la sera di mercoledì 8 settembre. La moltitudine di concerti ha inevitabilmente portato alla loro parziale sovrapposizione, ma questo non deve necessariamente essere ...

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2021

by Luciano Rossetti
September 29, 2021

A collection of photos from the Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz in Sant'Anna Arresi, South Sardinia from August 30 to September 5, 2021, featuring Antonello Salis, Paolo Angeli, Hamid Drake, Aruan Ortiz, David Murray, Dudu Kouate, Silvia Bolognesi, James Brandon Lewis, Gunter Baby Sommer, Marco Colonna, Fabrizio Puglisi, Riccardo Pittau, piero Bittolo Bon, Brad Jones ...

Bergamo Jazz 2021

by Libero Farnè
September 23, 2021

Bergamo Varie sedi 16—19.9.2021 Nel febbraio 2020 su questo sito apparve una bella ed esaustiva intervista a Maria Pia De Vito, in qualità di neo nominata alla direzione artistica di Bergamo Jazz, prima donna dopo oltre quaranta edizioni del festival. Fra l'altro, in quella circostanza si colse opportunamente l'occasione per disquisire sul ...

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXXVI Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
September 10, 2021

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz Sant'Anna Arresi 7.8-8.9.2021 Trentaseiesima edizione del festival Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz. La prima senza Basilio Sulis, creatore e visionario direttore artistico della manifestazione, scomparso lo scorso novembre e ricordato con una bella e affettuosa mostra fotografica curata dal nostro Luciano Rossetti.

Paolo Angeli: Jar'a

by Ian Patterson
August 31, 2021

In a recording career that began in 1995, prepared guitarist Paolo Agneli's has toggled between solo albums and collaborations with the likes of Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Evan Parker, Takumi Fukushima and Iva Bittova. But whether in partnership or solo, the Sardinian's music stubbornly resists categorization. Elements of free-jazz, post-rock, folk, noise and electronic soundscaping are ...

William Parker: Mayan Space Station & Painters Winter

by Eric Gudas
August 14, 2021

"Ungentrified funk": that's how William Parker characterized the music of his Mayan Space Station ensemble after a Zoom-transmitted performance—plus Q&A session— in the summer of 2020. Like Duke Ellington and Cecil Taylor—the latter whose group he played with in the 1980s—the protean Parker has become a genre unto himself. Parker's brand of funk has deep musical ...

Ground Music Festival 2021

by Luciano Rossetti
July 12, 2021

Moers Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
June 22, 2021

Moers Festival Eventhalle/Rodelberg Moers, Germany May 21-24 2021 Just a few days before the start of this 50th anniversary festival, the local governmental authorities suddenly switched their virus regulations, allowing a crowd of 500 to attend each evening's outdoor park gig on the Rodelberg stage. During the daytimes, ...

Melanie Charles, Leo Sidran, Irène Schweizer, Ofentse Moses Sebula & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 12, 2021

Leo Sidran and Kat Edmonson's latest single introduce the Art of Conversation in jazz. Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake, and Javier Santiago & Melanie Charles continue it as a dialogue; Keith Brown and Garage a Trois as a trialougue; Dina Ramirez, Roberto Negro, Erik Fratzke as a quadralogue; Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Makram Aboul Hosn, Ofentse Moses Sebula ...

Dave Holland Trio, Sonny Simmons, Astral Spirits & El Negocito Releases

by Maurice Hogue
June 2, 2021

There's something in this episode for just about everybody. You'll hear samples from the new Dave Holland trio project, some hard-nosed improv from new releases on the Astral Spirits label (including a re-release of Cleveland's legendary Vernacular Trio), a look through some releases from the interesting catalogue of Belgium's El Negocito Records, a walk down memory ...