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Article: Extended Analysis

The Inner Spectrum of Variables

Read "The Inner Spectrum of Variables" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


Ok, proviamoci. Proviamo a parlare di questo disco uscendo dalle convenzioni che di solito si adottano quando ci si pone di fronte a un percorso musicale come quello di Tyshawn Sorey. Sorey non dovrebbe avere bisogno di troppe presentazioni. Oddio, magari in un'Italia del jazz mediamente poco curiosa di quello che sta oltre ...

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News: Video / DVD

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Eight jazz newsmakers of 2016

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase:  Eight jazz newsmakers of 2016

As regular readers know, this space frequently is used to preview shows from touring jazz and creative music performers coming to St. Louis. But with a relative paucity of acts visiting here in the next several weeks, today's video showcase offers something a little different: a look back at some of jazz performers who have been ...

Article: Take Five With...

Guillaume Grenard e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Guillaume Grenard e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by AAJ Staff


All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Guillaume Grenard: Codificata. AAJI: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. G.G.: Che in un attimo sappiano dimenticarsi, scomparire dietro la musica. Questi tipi si trovano più facilmente nei collettivi di musicisti, piuttosto che tra i ...

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Article: Interview

Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”

Read "Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”" reviewed 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 ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Ivan Valentini

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Ivan Valentini" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Henry Threadgill -Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time -1983). L'ho comprato recentemente perché segnalato da Steve Lehman sulla sua pagina facebook come un disco che ha avuto molta influenza sulla sua formazione musicale... e ho fatto bene! Musica di incredibile freschezza nonostante siano passati più di trent'anni, architetture e peso compositivo ...

Article: Album Review

Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Mike Reed: Artifacts

Read "Artifacts" reviewed by Vic Albani


I figli crescono. Terza generazione della mai troppo celebrata AACM chicagoana, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid e Mike Reed danno alle stampe un interessantissimo CD che è già stato votato da molte testate specializzate quale uno dei migliori, se non il migliore disco di jazz dello scorso anno. Artifacts è innanzitutto ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Gaetano Partipilo

Read "Intervista a Gaetano Partipilo" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


S'è formato nella fervida scena del jazz pugliese e nei corsi di Siena Jazz ma poco più che ventenne ha svolto le prime, significative, esperienze internazionali accanto a Dave Liebman, Greg Osby, Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits e altri protagonisti dell'innovazione, a New York sul finire degli anni Novanta. Oggi Gaetano Partipilo è uno dei ...

News: Education

Music Education Monday: A master class with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill

Music Education Monday: A master class with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill

Since saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill recently won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition “In for a Penny, In for a Pound," this seems like an opportune Music Education Monday to share with StLJN readers a video master class with him. Threadgill, 72, is a Chicago native who's been creating innovative music since ...

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Article: Jazz Primer

Thinking Outside The Musical Box

Read "Thinking Outside The Musical Box" reviewed by Donal Fox


What is jazz? It is a state of mind, a spiritual quest for true unfettered artistic expression. A human expression of individual freedom, social freedom and love. Jazz is also about diversity. Diversity is important, isn't it? We expect it in our social lives. We demand respect and honoring in our society as artists and as ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Something old, something new, something reissued, something Brötzmann blew.

Read "Something old, something new, something reissued, something Brötzmann blew." reviewed by Mark Corroto


Can the entire history of a musical genre be encoded in one man's DNA? If that is possible, then reading the DeoxyriboNucleic Acid molecules in saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's body would yield all the information a musical scientist studying the development of free jazz would require. Since the 1960s, he has been in the center of the ...


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