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Steve Lacy: November
by Mark Corroto
Even without the back story of November, the music of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy exists on its own merits. Compare this live recording to the two dozen-plus solo sessions by this master, and it stands up to any of them. Not that Lacy was in his finest form here, having been diagnosed with liver ...
Xu Fengxia - Lucas Niggli: Black Lotos
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci sono una cantante di Shanghai che vive in Germania e un batterista svizzero nato in Camerun da madre cinese. Pare l'incipit di una storiella, e invece è un piccolo miracolo di globalizzazione cultural-musicale. Lei è Xu Fengxia, cantante e virtuosa di strumenti tradizionali, trascinata in ambito impro dall'incontro, illuminante, con il fu Peter Kowald; lui ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by Nic Jones
There's a lot to a title as far as Ragged Atlas is concerned. The members of Cosa Brava have long been skilled in avoiding the obvious and their music incorporates influences from disparate sources. The range of their musical activities and affiliations in the past result in a coherence that is notable. When allied to the ...
OM: Willisau
by Nic Jones
The Swiss improvised music scene is often unfairly overlooked. Whilst the efforts of other musicians from western European countries--principally perhaps Germany and Holland--have long since staked a claim to international attention, the same isn't true of Switzerland, at least until now. This isn't to suggest that the music on OM's Willisau has any kind of nationalistic ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by John Kelman
Probably the most curious reaction guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, when it debuted at the 2008 International Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, was that it was “too melodic." Detractors of that show will likely be equally nonplussed by the group's overdue debut disc, Ragged Atlas, but it'll be their loss, as Frith's first “rock band" in ...
Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal
by Nic Jones
Between the membership of this quartet (Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Thomas Morgan, and Gerry Hemingway) embodies the twenty-first century improvising musician. All four members have recorded before and in a variety of situations of wide diversity. They bring all of the experience this implies to a program that stakes out its own territory, and from start ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by Mark Corroto
In the last forty years, no one has been about to categorize just what exactly Fred Frith music is. His seminal early work with the British prog-rock band Henry Cow--along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart--developed the idea rock artists could also be accomplished and serious musicians. Later he founded the New York ...
Rudi Mahall - Axel Dörner - Jan Roder - Uli Jennessen: Die Enttäuschung
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci vuole una discreta dose di auto-ironia per varare un quartetto e battezzarlo “la delusione". L'idea bislacca è venuta a Rudi Mahall, Jan Roder, Axel Dörner e Uli Jennessen, cotitolari del progetto Die Enttäuschung (la delusione in tedesco), che giunge al traguardo dell'opera seconda dopo un esordio del 2007 uscito sempre su Intakt. A quale gioco ...
Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal
by Glenn Astarita
Violinist Mark Feldman and his wife, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier eloquently morph restraint, depth and a contemporary classical touch into the progressive-jazz idiom on this 2010 release. Respectively, the musicians are ceaselessly engaged within the new music style of jazz and improvisation, having recorded for several record labels, spanning several years. No doubt, the duo's venerable artistic ...
Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy: Some Other Place
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Agusti Fernandez and bassist Barry Guy are two great solo improvising musicians that have a rare talent to cooperate in music making, combining their talents for an ever greater sound. So the question is, why haven't they recorded a duet until now? Spaniard Fernandez is an original voice, perhaps best described as the love child ...
