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Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band in Krakow, Poland
by John Sharpe
Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band Alchemia Krakow, Poland November 18-22, 2014 Chapter Index The Blue Shroud Krakow Jazz Autumn Small Group Formations Day One Day Two Day Three Polish Musicians Post Script ...
Tampere Jazz Happening 2014
by Henning Bolte
Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland October 30--November 2, 2014 On the way from the airport to the city of Tampere you pass by Nokia, situated fifteen kilometres west of Tampere, the Scandinavian city famous for its gumboots and cables, and famous for its mobile phones. For a while 'Nokia' was synonymous ...
Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zurich Concert
by Libero Farnè
Di fronte a dischi problematici come questo non si può fare a meno di porsi delle domande. Quali sono il ruolo della composizione e la sua relazione con l'improvvisazione? Esistono analogie reali o presunte con la musica contemporanea “colta"? Quali sono la consapevolezza e le intenzioni degli autori nel concepire una musica di confine? Soltanto un ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today! Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. ...
Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zurich Concert
by John Sharpe
Even though numbering just eight strong, Ingrid Laubrock makes such skillful use of the talented cast at her disposal on Zurich Concert that the band delivers an almost orchestral experience. She achieves that through the deployment of three chordal instruments in Mary Halvorson's guitar, Liam Noble's piano and Ted Reichman's accordion. Not that you would characterize ...
Max Johnson: Big Eyed Rabbit
by Karl Ackermann
Bassist Max Johnson is one of the most prolific and versatile musician/composers in music today and likely on the verge of a major breakthrough. Barely past the year's mid-point Johnson has offered three fine releases with different groups and distinctly different styles. Recording with Kirk Knuffke on cornet on Johnson's namesake trio release The Invisible Trio ...
Vision 19 Honors A New Generation Of Vision Artists
Honoring a New Generation of Vision Artists. Music and Art calls each generation. The Vision continues with important younger artists like Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn and Fay Victor with Tyshawn Sorrey. There are a few excellent young musicians playing with Charles Gayle, like Shayna Dulberger, Ingrid Laubrock and Mazz Swift. Michael Wimberly has put together ...
Max Johnson: The Prisoner
by John Sharpe
NYC-based bassist Max Johnson already boasts an impressively strong discography, after just two entries: Quartet (Not Two, 2013) and Elevated Vegetation (FMR, 2012). With a new crew on board for The Prisoner, he tackles that hoary chestnut the concept album. Except of course that in the medium of jazz, this doesn't mean a string of banal ...
Vision Festival 19 Celebrates Charles Gayle with Lifetime of Achievement
Celebrating Charles Gayle Lifetime Of Achievement on June 11 At this, the nineteenth Vision Festival, Arts For Art is proud to acknowledge Charles Gayle for his Lifetime of Achievement. A gentle and humble artist, he is clearly one of the greatest saxophone players. Born and raised in Buffalo, he was much influenced by the church, where ...
Michael Fischer / Marcos Baggiani: bAgg*fisH
by Eyal Hareuveni
The duo bAgg*fisH--Austrian saxophonist and violinist Michael Fischer, and Amsterdam-based Argentinian drummer Marcos Baggiani began working together in 2003. The two were determined to redefine the sonic options of such a duo, blurring the conventional distinctions between muscular free jazz, post-rock, psychedelic dramas and noisy outbursts. The duo's music is wrapped in an experimental, risk-taking envelope, ...
