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A dialogo con Emanuele Parrini
by Neri Pollastri
Emanuele Parrini è il più significativo interprete (non solo) nostrano del violino jazz. Membro storico del Dinamitri Jazz Folklore, già violinista dell'Italian Instabile Orchestra, collaboratore di molte formazioni (Nexus, l'orchestra di Dino Betti van der Noot, il quartetto di Cene Resnik), leader di un proprio quartetto con il quale ha realizzato nel 2016 l'eccellente The Blessed ...
Rez Abbasi: On balancing picture with music and shifting into Django mode
by Friedrich Kunzmann
To really distinguish oneself in today's vast universe of guitarists, even within the confines of jazz, more and more resembles a Sisyphus task. When so much has been said and done, a specific tone or distinctive vocabulary alone no longer suffice to set an artist apart from the crowd. It is only through the sum of ...
Francesco Bearzatti: Zorro e Dintorni
by Libero Farnè
Già nei primi anni Duemila Francesco Bearzatti era un jazzista apprezzato ed aveva al suo attivo pregevoli dischi per la Caligola e la Auand, oltre a svariate collaborazioni; ma fu all'inizio del 2008 che venne prepotentemente alla ribalta internazionale con il CD Suite for Tina Modotti (Parco della Musica Records). Da quel momento l'affiatatissima formazione, completata ...
Michael Cuscuna: In The Vault Playing God
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in December 2000. Michael Cuscuna is one of the most important figures in the jazz reissue field today. He has been responsible for hundreds of releases for many companies, and he was fortunate to meet and befriend Alfred Lion during the final ...
Tigran Hamasyan: Music and Arts Have a Purpose to Elevate People Spiritually
by Nenad Georgievski
Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan is a composer who has built his career on defying expectations, taking chances, exploring and pushing the boundaries between genres and geographies. His albums serve as a testament to his diverse musical tastes where any combination of musical possibilities can emerge. In a sense, he has managed to find a way to ...
Marvin Stamm on Bernie Glow
In the recording studios of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, trumpet players had specialties. Like baseball batters and Old West gunslingers, top trumpeters in the horn sections of big bands and pop orchestras became distinguished for a particular style. Each of the four trumpet seats were occupied by players known for acing notes and nuances in ...
Tamar Osborn: From Kalakuta To Collocutor: New Directions In Jazz
by Chris May
She has been likened to Gil Evans, Fela Kuti, Pharoah Sanders, Bismillah Khan and Mulatu Astatke, and the traditions represented by those musicians are all to be heard in the music of baritone saxophonist and composer Tamar Osborn. Osborn's aesthetic, however, is her own, and her band, Collocutor, is among the most distinctive on the British ...
Orchestra Aperta: Fare musica con le mani
by Paolo Marra
"L'Orchestra Aperta, la conduzione chironomica" è un progetto proposto dalla Fondazione Musica per Roma che ha permesso la formazione nella musica di ricerca e di libera improvvisazione di nove giovani musicisti selezionati con un'audizione nazionale durata 15 giorni. Alla selezione è seguita una residenza durata due settimane diretta dal Maestro Paolo Damiani insieme ai docenti Daniele ...
Meet Kenny Barron
by Craig Jolley
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in March 2001. Jazz Education I recently retired from Rutgers University. Right now I teach piano one day a week at Manhattan School of Music. In September I'll be teaching at the new jazz program at Julliard. I've taught David Sanchez and ...
Chet Baker: An Alternative Top Ten Albums To Get Lost In
by Chris May
Chet Baker was born to a farmer's daughter and a hard-drinking, weed-smoking singer and guitarist in a Western Swing band in Yale, Oklahoma in 1929. Like many Okies, the family fared badly during the Great Depression but did a little better after moving to Glendale, California in 1939. Largely self-taught as a trumpeter, Baker honed his ...
