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Sylvie Courvoisier: Lonelyville
by Kurt Gottschalk
Sylvie Courvoisier's work has come from a variety of angles over the years. She is a classically-trained composer with a strong ear for formal structure, an improviser with a strong sense of community and artistic relationships and an innovator whose work with preparing and altering the piano goes beyond the usual percussive effects to forge a ...
Anthony Braxton: Solo Willisau
by Henry Smith
Nearly forty years after the release of his groundbreaking For Alto (Delmark, 1968), Anthony Braxton returns with yet another solo sax album, this time a concert recording, Solo Willisau. Feeding off of the 1,500 grateful attendees, Braxton does again what he has done for so long, breaking down musical walls with his distinguished meshing of intellect ...
Jacques Demierre - Barry Guy - Lucas Niggli: Brainforest
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quello composto dal pianista Jacques Demierre, dal contrabbassista Barry Guy e dalle percussioni di Lucas Niggli è un trio che già da qualche anno esplora con convinzione il linguaggio della libera improvvisazione. Le sette composizioni spontanee che confluiscono in Brainforest - disco che prende il nome [e con lui i titoli dei singoli brani] da un ...
Lucas Niggli Zoom Meets Arte Quartett: Crash Cruise
by Glenn Astarita
Venerable New York City-based modern jazz saxophonist Tim Berne composed the liners for Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli's Crash Cruise. And while both have generated a signature musical persona, the artists do share similarities due to their proclivities on various musical fronts. With his long-running and irrefutably excitable band Zoom, the drummer reaffirms ...
Ulrich Gumpert: Quartette
by Glenn Astarita
German pianist Ulrich Gumpert incorporates the vitality of youth into this dazzling progressive jazz set, featuring young artists from the Berlin jazz scene. This quartet abides by a fire and brimstone credo, built upon snap, crackle and lots of pop. Yet one of the equalizers of the band's thrusting impetus pertains to its ability to generate ...
Fred Frith - Chris Brown: Cutter Heads
by AAJ Italy Staff
Due tra i massimi sperimentatori della libera improvvisazione, danno vita in questo disco (registrato ad Oakland, nel gennaio 2002 e nell'agosto 2004) ad una relazione intensa e visionaria, capace di integrare i riferimenti più vari, entro un tessuto coerente e fantasioso. Fred Frith imbraccia come di consueto le sue chitarre elettriche ed acustiche mentre Chris Brown ...
Wadada Leo Smith / Gunter Baby Sommer: Wisdom In Time
by Nic Jones
This program of duo performances by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Gunter Baby Sommer is both the renewal on record of a long-standing musical relationship and at the same time a kind of homage to their fallen comrade, the bassist Peter Kowald, whose death robbed the improvised music scene of one of its stalwarts. Amongst ...
Ulrich Gumpert: Quartette
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo le recenti rimpatriate di Günter Lenz (Strict Minimum) e Friedhelm Schönfeld (Start), un’altra vecchia gloria del jazz tedesco, più precisamente DDR, torna a far parlare di sé: Ulrich Gumpert, personaggio alquanto restio alle pubblicazioni, nonché membro fondatore del pionieristico Zentralquartett (giunto recentemente ad una placida maturità con l’affascinante 11 Songs - Aus Teutschenn Landen). Il ...
Wadada Leo Smith / Gunter Baby Sommer: Wisdom in Time
by Eyal Hareuveni
More than 25 years have passed since the late, great bassist Peter Kowald introduced trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith to then East German drummer Günter Baby Sommer. The Chicago-Wuppertal-Dresden axis of three idiosyncratic and free-minded improvisers toured Europe and recorded one of the longstanding and seminal documents of European-American free improvisation, Touch The Earth--Break The Shells (Intakt, ...
Oval: Sten Sandell Trio
by Eyal Hareuveni
Busy Chicago multi-reed man Ken Vandermark suggests in his liner notes of Oval, the third release by the Sten Sandell Trio, that the Swedish pianist and composer may represent the future of the piano in contemporary and improvised music. Like other pianists of his generation, Sandell is influenced by the innovations of Cecil Taylor but brings ...
