Results for "Henry Cowell"

Henry Cowell

Born: March 11, 1897

Luca Pedeferri: Exultation

by Alberto Bazzurro
October 10, 2019

Lecchese, trentasette anni, pianista e fisarmonicista, in questo suo nuovo lavoro Luca Pedeferri si rivolge all'opera di Henry Cowell, compositore, teorico e pianista californiano morto oltre mezzo secolo fa non ancora settantenne. Nove i temi rivisitati (con piglio squisitamente jazzistico, va detto subito, anche se non mancano gli scantonamenti in aree di umore più schiettamente contemporaneo), ...

Denman Maroney: Solo @70

by Karl Ackermann
September 14, 2019

Denman Maroney, best-known for his use of the dual-keyboard hyper piano, celebrates his seventieth birthday with a massive collection of solo pieces played on the traditional piano. However, there is little traditional about Solo@70. Maroney's sizable catalog of over forty releases includes several solo projects; the previous such album, Domicil Solo (Live) (Self Produced, 2017) consisting ...

Tiziano Tononi, Alessandro Pacho Rossi: Is This… Music???

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 11, 2016

Dopo un'attività decisamente intensa, con Nexus e con progetti propri (spesso sotto lo stesso ombrello, peraltro) dagli anni Ottanta fino all'inizio del nuovo millennio, Tiziano Tononi ha alquanto allentato la sua presenza discografica, per cui ci fa doppiamente piacere salutare questo suo nuovo lavoro, singolarmente inciso in duo con un altro percussionista, Alessandro Pacho Rossi, e ...

A Madman’s Approach To Music And Why Can't Music Be Like A Tree?

by Duncan Heining
March 18, 2015

"Art alone makes life possible." --Joseph Beuys. The Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra is unique. It's an over-used word, I know, but in this case fully justified. GIO are unique in so many ways--in the way they formed, the way they make decisions, in their make-up, how they work and most importantly how they sound. They ...

Fred Frith: Mapping the Further Reaches

by Nic Jones
May 3, 2010

Multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith occupies a unique niche. As a charter member of Henry Cow, a band for which improvisation was always an integral part of musical expression, he was partly responsible for some of the most radical music ever to have emerged from beneath the rock umbrella.So much so, in fact, that ...

The Piano Music Of Henry Cowell

By Henry Cowell

Label: Axiom
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