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Fabrizio Bosso: Il Quartetto come condivisione totale

by Paolo Marra
January 4, 2021

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 ...

Article: Catching Up With

Ron Miles: Rainbow Sign Of The Times

by Ian Patterson
December 29, 2020

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 ...

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Vanessa Tagliabue Yorke: Identità di una voce suggestiva

by Paolo Marra
December 28, 2020

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 ...

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Mark Ruffin: Bebop Fairy Tales

by Seton Hawkins
December 21, 2020

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 ...

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Patrizio Fariselli, tra passato e futuro

by Claudio Bonomi
December 21, 2020

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 ...

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Burton Greene: From Bomb To Balm

by Barbara Ina Frenz
December 18, 2020

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 ...

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Nancy Kelly: A Dynamic And Determined Voice

by Scott Gudell
December 16, 2020

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 ...

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Billy Childs: L.A. Contentment

by R.J. DeLuke
December 15, 2020

Billy Childs says taking formal piano lessons as a young child “didn't register" at the time. He didn't recoil from the instrument by any means, but it wasn't yet exciting. But he had a neighbor who also played. Childs looked up to him. It was that neighbor who showed him stuff--taught him to play “ Cantaloupe ...

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Joost Lijbaart: Free Conversations With Myself

by Ian Patterson
December 11, 2020

For an artist, making any album is something of a journey—the birthing of ideas, the moulding and sculpting of concepts, the creative trial and error, the emotional highs and lows, and in the end, the satisfaction of a work completed. Dutch drummer/percussionist and composer Joost Lijbaart has travelled that road many times in a thirty-year career, ...

Article: Catching Up With

Simona Severini: Espressione di una voce unica

by Paolo Marra
December 1, 2020

Con la sua voce raffinata e piena di vigore espressivo, Simona Severini è una delle cantanti italiane che rappresenta al meglio la multiforme essenza del jazz, in un microcosmo artistico ormai smarcato dalla classificazione di genere. Un insieme di sfumature non solo vocali, ma anche stilistiche e compositive, che hanno preso forma nei suoi lavori solisti, ...