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Aki Takase / Lauren Newton: Spring In Bangkok
by Nic Jones
Both Aki Takase and Lauren Newton have shown admiral commitment to music on the margins, and this is a highly idiosyncratic documentation of their work in progress. The term “singing" has never be adequate for what Newton does with her voice, and the fact that so much of her communication is non-verbal gives this music a ...
Irene Schweizer: First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern
by Nic Jones
Comparison between the opening bars of the lengthy title track on First Choice and Cecil Taylor's solo work reveals interesting details. Where Taylor's more reflective passages tend often to preview bombast and iconoclasm writ large, Irene Schweizer's approach to the piano seems more reflective--more prone to rumination on an idea or a fragment of an idea--and ...
Trio 3: Time Being
by AAJ Italy Staff
La quarta incisione del Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman e Andrew Cyrille), nell’arco di quasi un decennio, evidenzia la grande attenzione posta dai tre formidabili musicisti al processo creativo e alla necessità di darne testimonianza in modo ponderato, andando in controtendenza rispetto ad un mercato sempre più affamato ed inflazionato da prodotti di routine. A ...
Zentralquartett: 11 Songs - Aus Teutschenn Landen
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se a un ascoltatore italiano l'idea di una rivisitazione in chiave jazz del patrimonio popolare del passato può risultare ormai familiare e diffusa - anche per la grande vastità di materiali melodici cui attingere, da Monteverdi alla canzone napoletana, dai canti popolari alle arie d'opera - forse meno scontata è l'attenzione che il Zentralquartett pone nei ...
Trio 3: Time Being
by Nic Jones
These three men have been working together for some time, and the more time passes, the more obvious it becomes that they should go on doing so. If some list of arbitrary criteria that makes for stimulating improvised music were to be written up, these three would score highly. They display individual expression in abundance within ...
Saadet T: Urumchi
by Derek Taylor
The Swiss Intakt imprint has long evinced a stake in stewarding ethnic improvisatory traditions. This new album by Kazakhstani vocalist Saadet Türköz presents one of the most striking distillations of an age-old idiom. Türköz's roots lie in the musical traditions of her forbearers, bred in the windswept steppe lands of what is now Eastern China. As ...
Zentralquartett: 11 Songs - Aus Teutschen Landen
by Derek Taylor
Attention to tradition is too often mistaken as adherence to conservative orthodoxy. In jazz, the culpability often rests at the feet of the neo-conservative crowd, a frequently demonized assembly whose stock rises and falls with regularity, depending on the body of listeners polled. The four players who form the Zentralquartett have little time for such meta-musical ...
Barry Guy -- London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Study II, Stringer
by Glenn Astarita
This newly-released outing looms as a modern/free jazz fest, highlighting studio sessions performed in 1983 ("Stringer, London) and 1991 ("Study II," Switzerland) and led by bassist Barry Guy's multinational orchestra, featuring a who's who of the Euro jazz and improvisation scene. The bassist steers the ensemble through a potpourri of mood-evoking frameworks. In addition to spiraling ...
Fred Frith / Stevie Wishart / Carla Kihlstedt: The Compass, Log, and Lead
by Glenn Astarita
In the course of guitarist/composer and consummate improviser Fred Frith's extensive discography, many of us have grown accustomed to being sensitized for expecting the unforeseen. With this release, recorded at a studio in Oakland, California, the trio casts a homespun edge to avant-garde stylizations. Violinist Carla Kihlstedt also uses a Swedish folk instrument known as the ...
Phil Minton - Veryan Weston: Ways Out East, Ways Out West
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ways Out East, Ways Out West non è solo un omaggio che il cantante Phil Minton e il pianista Veryan Weston porgono a Nestor Makhno - un risoluto e passionario anarchico attivo in Ucraina durante la Rivoluzione Russo e poi a Parigi negli anni Trenta “che non ha forse ricevuto la giusta considerazione nella storia" [per ...
