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Dario Savino Doronzo: Riletture tra storia e modernità
by Paolo Marra
Far convivere Opera e jazz in un unicum coeso ed equilibrato è cosa non facile. Il flicornista Dario Savino Doronzo con il progetto Re-Imagine, insieme al pianista Pietro Gallo, riesce nell'impresa creando con il recente album, Reimagining Opera (Digressione Music), un convincente incontro tra due mondi all'apparenza lontani. Il disco contiene una selezione di famose arie ...
Benjamin Koppel: Curiosity Won't Kill This Cat
by R.J. DeLuke
Benjamin Koppel is an extraordinary Danish musician from an illustrious music family. He is all about music—of just about any kind. He's always absorbing it, discovering what there is to derive from it. A kind of restless desire to explore envelops him. He simplifies it in his own words: he's curious. It comes naturally to him. ...
Frank Kimbrough: Changing the Contexts, Keeping It Fresh
by Wayne Zade
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in September 2002. Frank Kimbrough is one of the most versatile and innovative pianists in jazz on the New York and national scenes. He has been the pianist in the Maria Schneider jazz orchestra and has recorded seven albums under his own ...
Frank Kimbrough of the Jazz Composers Collective
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. Frank Kimbrough (pianist/composer) was born on November 2, 1956 in Roxboro, NC and currently resides in New York. As a founding member and composer-in-residence of the Jazz Composers Collective, Mr. Kimbrough's works have been prominently featured in ...
Jazz Composers Collective: The Herbie Nichols Project
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. The Herbie Nichols Project is a working, researching, and performing entity--co-led by pianist Frank Kimbrough and bassist Ben Allison. Operating within that fertile creative aggregate known as the Jazz Composers Collective (of which Mr. Kimbrough and Mr. Allison are ...
Steffen Basho-Junghans: esplorando lo spazio sonoro della chitarra
by Mario Calvitti
In occasione della pubblicazione di The Dancer on the Hill abbiamo parlato con il chitarrista tedesco Steffen Basho-Junghans. All About Jazz: Dancer on the Hill è uscito ad oltre 10 anni dal precedente, IS, pubblicato nel 2009. Qual è la ragione di questa lunghissima pausa dopo un'attività discografica molto intensa nel decennio precedente?
Alex Clarke: She Does It Her Way
by Chris May
Coming up fast behind the school of British saxophonists who emerged around 2015 is a younger group of players who are just beginning to get noticed. Among them is Alex Clarke, who was a finalist in Britain's public service broadcaster, the BBC's biannual Young Jazz Musician competition in 2020. In the televised final in November, Clarke ...
Clifton Anderson: Knowing the Road
by Barbara Ina Frenz
New York trombonist Clifton Anderson has mastered his instrument from the 1970s on in jazz programs of his home town outside the conservatory (which he also attended), that were initiated by leading spirits of the music such as Barry Harris, Sam Rivers, and Reggie Workman; these informal, professional jazz circles gave him information, insights and inspiration ...
Fabrizio Bosso: Il Quartetto come condivisione totale
by Paolo Marra
Dal primo disco a suo nome uscito nel 2000 dal titolo Fast Flight Fabrizio Bosso si è imposto come uno dei migliori trombettisti a livello internazionale in virtù non soltanto delle sue ben note doti tecniche ma anche per la sua versatilità, dentro e fuori l'ambito jazz. Tra i suoi vari progetti, il Fabrizio Bosso Quartet ...
Ron Miles: Rainbow Sign Of The Times
by Ian Patterson
The title of Ron Miles' Rainbow Sign (Blue Note Records, 2020) carries great personal meaning for the Denver cornetist/composer and educator. The initial influence was The Carter Family song “God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign," with its line 'No more water but the fire next time," which in turn gave James Baldwin the title for his ...
