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David Virelles: Antenna
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist/composer David Virelles has combined his Cuban heritage with jazz before, most notably on his 2014 ECM leader debut Mbókò, which had the subtitle “Sacred Music for Piano, Two Basses, Drum Set and Biankoméko Abakuá." But this EP--which is being released exclusively on vinyl and digitally--takes things in an entirely new electro-acoustic direction. It's a dense ...
Piero Bittolo Bon's Bread & Fox: Big Hell on Air
by Luca Canini
Quand'è che si diventa grandi nel jazz? Dopo quanti dischi e dopo quante recensioni ci si può considerare una realtà e non più un'ipotesi di musicista? Passati i trenta? Alla soglia dei quaranta? Difficile dirlo. Ad alcuni capita per incanto di ritrovarsi adulti, quasi senza sforzo, per merito di un improvviso e il più delle volte ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements at Albright-Knox Art Gallery
by Matthew Aquiline
Steve Coleman and Five Elements Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art of Jazz Buffalo, NY October 29, 2016 If Steve Coleman's set at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery proved anything, it's that residencies are still a beneficial means to cultivating unrivaled virtuosity within a band. In the case of composer, alto ...
Francesco Diodati Yellow Squeeds all'Auditorium Di Vittorio di Milano
by Paolo Peviani
Francesco Diodati Yellow Squeeds Atelier Musicale Milano Auditorium G. Di Vittorio 22.10.2016 Per questa ventitreesima edizione, la rassegna milanese Atelier Musicale ha scelto di dedicare ampio spazio alle giovani generazioni. A quella nouvelle vague di musicisti che -osserva giustamente il curatore della rassegna Maurizio Franco--si muovono in direzioni poeticamente ...
Dafnis Prieto: A World Of Rhythmic Possibilities
by Dan Bilawsky
A World Of Rhythmic Possibilites Dafnis Prieto 276 Pages ISBN: #978-0-692-65526-9 Dafnison Music 2016 Learning to fluently and fluidly dissect, construct, and speak rhythms through the drums is a lifelong process of study, discovery, and growth. Touching on the new while truly expanding that coded language is incredibly ...
Jonathan Finlayson: Moving Still
by Karl Ackermann
Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson has been an in-demand sideman for a decade, laying a foundation of top-tier groundwork in recording with Steve Coleman on all of that uncompromising composer's Five Elements albums since 2002. Finlayson's performing credits include gigs with Ravi Coltrane, Steve Lehman, Mary Halvorson, Vijay Iyer, and many other notable artists. Not until 2013 did ...
The Inner Spectrum of Variables
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
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 ...
Guillaume Grenard e il Questionario di Proust
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 ...
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 ...
