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Tobia Bondesan: Frenesia Creativa
by Libero Farnè
Lo devo all'amico Vladimiro Pelliciardi se anni orsono ho conosciuto l'esistenza del collettivo BlueRing Improvisers e se, nel primo anno del Covid, ho avuto l'occasione di incontrare a Bologna i giovani Tobia Bondesan e Giuseppe Sardina. Pelliciardi è un personaggio poliedrico, vulcanico, dalle iniziative imprevedibili: nell'arco di oltre un quarantennio ingegnere, sassofonista, insegnante, trakker su percorsi ...
Paolo Zavalloni - Un ricordo
by Libero Farnè
L'ultima volta che ho incontrato Paolo Zavalloni è stato l'11 dicembre 2022 al Teatro Baraccano di Bologna, in occasione di un concerto di Cristina. Era quello di sempre: estroverso, sanguigno, ciarliero. Come sempre era entusiasta della figlia che sotto il profilo artistico vedeva non come una sua creatura--perché lei se li è creati da sola il ...
John McLaughlin And Zakir Hussain: Shakti's Half-Century Of Spontaneous Joy
by Mike Jacobs
John McLaughlin. Ustad Zakir Hussain. Speak either name and a host of musical notions can come to mind. Pair them together and they conjure just one: Shakti. Indeed, the iconic jazz guitarist and celebrated Indian percussionist have each built long careers replete with enough musical achievements, stylistic innovations and instrumental mastery to gain entrance ...
Catching Up With Matthew Shipp
by Mark Corroto
As Matthew Shipp enters his sixth decade he has nothing left to prove to the jazz cognoscenti. He has for 40-plus years worked at crafting an instantly recognizable language at the piano. When he moved to Manhattan's Lower East Side in the '80s, he immersed himself in the same do-it -yourself culture that produced the post-punk ...
Stephan Thelen: Of Sonar, Fractals And Interactive Complexity
by Mike Jacobs
If you have been at all aware of the two-decade-old movement known as Swiss Minimalism, you've likely seen Stephan Thelen's name crop up. Lately, it would be fairly difficult not to. From 2018 to 2023 alone, his work as a leader in groups like Sonar and Fractal Sextet along with his Fractal Guitar series and other ...
Dimitri Grechi Espinoza: la tranquillità interiore per suonare gli standard
by Neri Pollastri
Senza volerlo, le nostre interviste a Dimitri Grechi Espinoza hanno una curiosa cadenza decennale: la prima fu nel 2003, quando il sassofonista russo-livornese stava facendo crescere il suo Dinamitri Jazz Folklore; la seconda nel 2014, quando il Dinamitri suonava con Amiri Baraka e il musicista aveva attivo un eccellente duo con Tito Mangialajo Rantzer; siamo di ...
Monika Herzig: Both Sides of Joni with Janiece Jaffe
by Jane Kozhevnikova
It is always challenging to create an album based on songs by someone as great as Joni Mitchell. Monika Herzig, pianist and composer, went for this challenge inspired by vocalist Janiece Jaffe. Although they recorded the project together, Jaffe passed away unexpectedly after heart surgery in November 2022. Shocked and devastated by the passing ...
Kazzrie Jaxen: The Impulse of Creation
by Jakob Baekgaard
You can walk around in life and still discover something new each day. Maybe it's something that has just appeared, like a flower that has suddenly bloomed, or maybe it's something that has been there all along, like a stone at the side of the road. It's the same thing with music, it can be discovered ...
Wayne Escoffery: Still Forging Ahead
by R.J. DeLuke
Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has a long, ongoing association with the Mingus Big Band organization, including a Grammy for Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop, Inc., Sue Mingus Music, 2010). His career also includes a special relationship with trumpeter Tom Harrell, with whom he has played for many years. All that is enough to ...
Zeno De Rossi: Tradire la Tradizione
by Neri Pollastri
Da anni personalità artistica centrale del jazz e della musica improvvisata del nostro Paese, Zeno De Rossi è solito alternare alla realizzazione di progetti a proprio nome sia produzioni collettive, sia collaborazioni con artisti di caratura assoluta--basti pensare alle lunghe esperienze con Franco D'Andrea, Francesco Bearzatti o Roberto Ottaviano. Nell'ultimo anno e mezzo, quando la progressiva ...
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