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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 ...
Vanessa Tagliabue Yorke: Identità di una voce suggestiva
by Paolo Marra
Spingendosi dalla parte opposta a ciò che si presenta consuetudinario, o solo in apparenza rassicurante, dal punto di vista musicale e umano Vanessa Tagliabue Yorke ci fa scoprire, col suo ultimo lavoro discografico dal titolo Diverso Lontano Incomprensibile, mondi dalle forme musicali e linguistiche differenti e suggestive. Una vocalità ricca di vellutata intensità quella della cantante ...
Mark Ruffin: Bebop Fairy Tales
by Seton Hawkins
Celebrating 40 years as a jazz broadcaster, music producer, and writer this year, Mark Ruffin--perhaps best known as the program director for the Real Jazz channel on SiriusXM --stands as one of jazz's unsung heroes. Countless artists owe their career successes and prominence to his tireless efforts, boundless enthusiasm and advocacy, and encyclopedic knowledge of the ...
Patrizio Fariselli, tra passato e futuro
by Claudio Bonomi
Patrizio Fariselli, membro fondatore degli Area, compositore e pianista, torna alla ribalta con un nuovo lavoro. Solo due anni fa aveva presentato 100 Ghosts, il suo settimo album da solista, che racchiudeva dieci tracce, frutto in larga maggioranza di un appassionato studio dedicato alle musiche arcaiche con particolare attenzione ai temi tradizionali della Grecia antica e ...
Burton Greene: From Bomb To Balm
by Barbara Ina Frenz
Chicago-born pianist Narada Burton Greene (b.1937) can be called a veteran of the 1960s jazz avant-garde—the starting point of his universal musical life. In 1962, he moved to New York and founded, together with bassist Alan Silva, the Free Form Improvisational Ensemble, which played improvised music without preconceived compositional elements. In 1965, he became a member ...
Nancy Kelly: A Dynamic And Determined Voice
by Scott Gudell
Nancy Kelly has been singin,' swingin' and scattin' for a long time. Her first musical path took her into the world of classical music when she started playing by ear at age three and her mother guided her to piano lessons by age four. The Beatles arrived a decade later and she abruptly shifted her allegiance ...
