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Paolo Angeli: 22.22 Free Radiohead
by Ian Patterson
There are almost as many strings to guitarist Paolo Angeli's bow as there are on his customized instrument. Ethnomusicologist, researcher and international arts festival director, Angeli plays in duos with Hamid Drake, Iva Bittova and Fred Frith. It's as a solo performer, however, that the Sardinian guitarist is probably best known. On this hour-long solo suite, ...
Something Else! Festival 2019
by Mike Chamberlain
Something Else! St. John the Evangelist Church Hamilton, Ontario June 20-23, 2019 I must confess that I spend very little time in churches, so I would not normally be inclined to spend the first weekend of summer in one. But sometimes exceptions must be made, and such an exception ...
The Other Night at Quinn's
by David A. Orthmann
The Other Night at Quinn's: New Adventures In The Sonic Underground Mike Faloon 269 Pages ISBN: #978-1-941576-24-3 Razorcake / Gorsky Press 2018 In addition to absorbing the sounds on recordings and live performances, the traditional route to an appreciation of jazz and improvised music usually entails seeking out the ...
Emil Viklicky & George Mraz: Mraz & Viklicky: Together Again
by Ian Patterson
In European jazz the assimilation of folkloric influences has become commonplace as the American vernacular--or more specifically the Great American Songbook--exerts less of a hold. Czech musicians pianist Emil Viklický and bassist George Mraz's collaborations on Morava (Fantasy/Milestone 2001)--with drummer Billy Hart and singer Zuzana Lapcikova--and Moravian Gems (Cube-Métier 2007) with singer/violinist Iva Bittova and drummer ...
Iva Bittova
By Iva Bittova
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Fragment I; Fragment II; Fragment III; Fragment IV; Fragment V; Fragment VI; Fragment VII; Fragment VIII; Fragment IX; Fragment X; Fragment XI; Fragment XII.
Iva Bittova: Knowing, Feeling...
by Ian Patterson
[Note: This article was first published in Music & Literature, a North American magazine dedicated to promoting artists worthy of wider attention] Iva Bittová is a rare talent. She has developed a personal idiom and vocabulary that is almost entirely her own. Her sound, her very personal language, forged from the union of ...
Emil Viklicky "The Janacek Of Jazz" Plays Rare London Gig At Spice Of Life October 31
Czech jazz pianist Emil Viklicky returns to the UK to play a rare, one-off gig at the Spice of Life, in Soho, London on Thursday, October 31st. Appearing in his favorite setting of a trio, Viklicky is joined by double bassist Petre Dvorsky and drummer Tomas Hobzek. Often described as “the Janacek of jazz”, Viklicky has ...
Iva Bittová: Iva Bittová
by AAJ Italy Staff
Attrice, cantante, violinista e compositrice, la ceca Iva Bittová è da molti anni una ben nota e apprezzata performer di impossibile collocazione anche stilistica, unendo in modo originale improvvisazione e classicismo, radici folk morave e jazz. Dopo la sua partecipazione al disco Mater, di Vladimír Godár, uscito per ECM alcuni anni fa, Manfred Eicher le ha ...
Bang on a Can All-Stars Announce Ken Thomson as New Clarinetist
Bang on a Can, New York’s innovative and energetic champion of new music, officially announced the new clarinetist for its “All-Star” lineup. The Bang on a Can All-Stars have become a singular vehicle for visionary composition over the course of the last 20 years, and with the addition of Ken Thomson will continue to set the ...
Iva Bittova: Iva Bittova
by Ian Patterson
The catch-all term avant-garde is often used to describe singer/violinist Iva Bittová's music, but in truth her musical language--kaleidoscopic in color and unique in presentation--is essentially unclassifiable. A well known actress, Bittová expanded her horizons to music in the early eighties, since when she's bounced from Bartok to experimental rock, and from folk-influenced jazz to her ...
