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Donatello D'Attoma Story

by Claudio Bonomi
July 5, 2016

A tu per tu con Donatello D'Attoma, classe 1983, e astro pianistico “crescente" e vitale del nostro jazz d'autore. Lo abbiamo incontrato due volte: la prima l'anno scorso, in occasione del Fasano Jazz, dove ha diviso il palco con il chitarrista norvegese Bjorn Solli (si trattava di una delle tappe estive del Watchdog Tour) e, recentemente, ...

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Interview: Jan Persson

June 28, 2016

Back in May, I posted on a Bill Evans Trio rehearsal in Denmark in 1966 that was captured on tape for TV broadcast. In the TV studio that day was Evans on piano; Eddie Gomez on bass; Alex Riel, a Danish drummer; cameramen; and a director. There also was a photographer. His name was Jan Persson. ...

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Pensieri sull'Orchestra per una società senza pensieri

by Neri Pollastri
June 27, 2016

Arriva il secondo volume della Musica per una società senza pensieri dei Sousaphonix di Mauro Ottolini, dopo che il primo (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione) aveva ricevuto giudizi assai diversi tra loro, non tutti pienamente positivi. Responsabilità forse di un progetto ampio e, soprattutto, volutamente vario in temi e materiali, ma forse anche di una ...

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Daniele Ninarello & Dan Kinzelman Kudoku

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 13, 2016

All About Jazz Italia: Kudoku è la performance che presenterete in prima assoluta alla Biennale di Venezia il 17 giugno prossimo. Perché “Kudoku" e come è nata l'idea di questa collaborazione? Dan Kinzelman: L'idea nasce per NovaraJazz (che ci ospiterà all'inizio della stagione autunnale) da Enrico Bettinello, giornalista e curatore che i lettori ...

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How to Listen to Jazz: A Q&A with Ted Gioia

by S.G Provizer
June 11, 2016

In How to Listen to Jazz, Ted Gioia has tasked himself with writing a book that asks people to drop their musical prejudices and open up their ears. The challenge in writing a book like is to find a middle path between, as Gioia says, “those who pretend that music is objective science and those who ...

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Simin Tander: Daring To Surrender

by Ian Patterson
June 7, 2016

Luck, so the saying goes, is ninety per cent hard work, as Simin Tander knows only too well. The Afghan/German singer is currently making international waves with What Was Said (ECM, 2016), a haunting collaboration with Tord Gustavsen, and is enjoying a higher profile than ever before. Whilst an element of luck of the right-time right-place ...

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Interview: Meredith d'Ambrosio

June 1, 2016

Yesterday I was listening to Meredith d'Ambrosio accompany herself on piano while singing Love Is a Simple Thing. The song appears on her sterling album Another Time (1981), which is one of my favorites of hers. Meredith and I have emailed for years, since she loves JazzWax and I love her voice and piano. As I ...

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Gianluca Petrella e la Cosmic Renaissance

by Giuseppe Segala
May 30, 2016

Cinque brani, diversi per impostazione e climax ma condotti da un filo rosso, da un'idea, da una coerenza. Questo il contenuto dell'EP di Gianluca Petrella con la sua Cosmic Renaissance: un'uscita pubblicata solo in vinile, che prelude alla prossima distribuzione di un CD. Siamo di fronte al primo assaggio di questa nuova avventura, che però dimostra ...

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Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”

by Victor L. Schermer
May 17, 2016

The griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician, a repository of oral tradition who is often seen as a societal leader. Saxophonist Greg Osby recently was excited to meet some griots on his travels. While he is originally from St. Louis, he himself is a griot in many senses of the ...

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Steve Schapiro: Photographs That Can Energize People and Music

by Nenad Georgievski
May 15, 2016

A long time photographer for Life magazine, Steve Schapiro is one of the most esteemed photographers of our time. For over five decades he has taken photographs of well-known politicians, activists and celebrities. These photographs are not only chronicles of people and the times, but cultural milestones as well. He has taken photographs of rev. Martin ...