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Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 7-11, 2011

Read "Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 7-11, 2011" reviewed by Sara Villa

by Sara Villa

Guelph Jazz Festival, Colloquium & Nuit Blanche Guelph, Canada September 7-11, 2011 As Prez used to say, if you are a good improviser you are able to tell a soulful story. What happens, then, when some of the most experimental improvisers from Canada, Australia, Norway, and England (among the others) are involved in ...

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Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert

Read "Athens Concert" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

What might on the surface appear as a meeting of disparate minds--jazz with Byzantine airs--ignores the fact that multi-reed/woodwind player Charles Lloyd has been embracing the music of the world for half a century with singular conviction and grace. Greek classical singer Maria Farantouri is herself a musical adventurer and risk taker; over the course of ...

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Article: Film Review

Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher

Read "Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher ECM Records2011 Some people have invented products and concepts that have revolutionized the world. Some have devoted their lives to helping others, while some have conquered mountains and have built business empires. Others have given us ...

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Article: Album Review

Wolfert Brederode Quartet: Post Scriptum

Read "Post Scriptum" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

ECM Records has a way of offering up music from various artists that seems as if it has existed forever--in nature, in the air--and that they, the label and the artists involved--be it pianists Tord Gustavsen or Bobo Stenson, or saxophonist Jan Garbarek--are simply conduits for grabbing those sounds and bringing them to the listening/CD-buying public. ...

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Article: Live Review

Oslo International Jazz Festival 2011

Read "Oslo International Jazz Festival 2011" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Oslo International Jazz FestivalOslo, NorwayAugust 15-20, 2011 There's always an eager sense of anticipation when returning to Norway, whether it's the barren but beautiful north of Svalbard, the stunning, mountain-surrounded Molde, the picturesque Kongsberg, the fjord-gateway of Bergen or the rugged beauty surrounding Kristiansand. But going back to Norway for the ...

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News: Recording

Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams (2004)

Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams (2004)

By Mark Saleski Immediately recognizable saxophone voices: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane. To this list we must add Jan Garbarek. Every musician brings something unique to the aural world. A way of phrasing. Romanticism of melody. Cryptic storytelling with chords. Energy. Shocking bursts of seeming anti-logic. Tone. Tone. In the jazz/instrumental music realm, tone is it. The ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Christian Grimshei

Read "Take Five With Christian Grimshei" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Christian Grimshei: I started out as a techno DJ in the '90s. I worked on several projects with Erik Hillestad from Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) in Norway, including Acid Queen: Tranzania (1997). Then I got very sick and didn't make music for 10 years. I studied the history of music during this time. I ...

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Article: Live Review

The Garana Jazz Festival: Garana, Romania, July 21-24, 2011

Read "The Garana Jazz Festival: Garana, Romania, July 21-24, 2011" reviewed by Adriana Carcu

by Adriana Carcu

The Garana Jazz Festival Garana, Romania July 21-24, 2011 Hidden in the heart of the Western Carpathians, the small village of Garana, --also called Wolfsberg by the Bohemian colonists who have inhabited it until some 30 years ago--has developed, during the last decades, into an international artist colony--hosting, for the 15th time this ...

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Article: Album Review

SuperJazzers: SuperJazzers: Vol. 1

Read "SuperJazzers: Vol. 1" reviewed by Doron Orenstein

by Doron Orenstein

A scenic and vibrant city nestled in a landscape of lush scenery, Portland, Oregon is not exactly known for its jazz scene. However, Superjazzers' Vol. 1 represents the city with a depth and refinement normally associated with the jazz greats in New York, as well as other major jazz towns. Although group name ...

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Article: Album Review

Amina Alaoui: Arco Iris

Read "Arco Iris" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Following her outstanding performance with the cross-cultural, century-spanning ensemble of Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke's Siwan (ECM, 2009), it's no surprise that the German label has tapped into the Moroccan singer for an album of her own. But as sprawling and ambitious as Siwan was, Arco Iris is, while being no less dramatic, on a much smaller ...


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