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Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani
by Giuseppe Segala
Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani XIX edizione Camerino 04-06.06.2015 Il cuore dell'Italia, nella città marchigiana di Camerino, ricorda ogni anno Massimo Urbani con il Premio a lui dedicato, rivolto ai giovani solisti di tutta la Penisola meritevoli di considerazione e supporto. Premio prestigioso, che nel corso degli anni passati ha ...
Emanuele Maniscalco, Francesco Bigoni, Mark Solborg: Maniscalco Bigoni Solborg
by Vincenzo Roggero
Potremmo definirla con un termine di frequente usato e talvolta abusato improvvisazione da camera, per la pacatezza dell'ambientazione sonora, per la cura maniacale delle dinamiche, per l'assoluto controllo degli strumenti mai sopra le righe, per il rigore formale che pervade l'opera. Potremmo ma... sarebbe un torto nei confronti di un lavoro che va ben oltre i ...
Joe McPhee: Solos : The Lost Tapes (1980 – 1981 – 1984)
by Mark Corroto
The young cats (players thirty years his junior) know Joe. Players who have immersed themselves in free improvisation, like Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Evans, Martin Kuchen, and Mikołaj Trzaska, learned the possibilities of creating a new music from, not thin air, but from listening. They model their approach after Joe McPhee. Born in ...
Samuel Blaser Quartet: Spring Rain
by Troy Collins
Spring Rain is Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's first release for the British imprint, Whirlwind Recordings. A sublime homage to the visionary work of under-sung innovator Jimmy Giuffre, the album features Blaser's current working quartet with Russ Lossing on piano and analog keyboards, Drew Gress on upright bass, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Grammy winning producer Robert ...
Allison Neale: I Wished on the Moon
by Jack Bowers
There was a time, roughly half a century ago, when West Coast jazz was seen as the hippest music on the planet, its leading lights known and praised far and wide for espousing a brand of “cool jazz" that stood in stark contrast to its more heated East Coast counterpart. Much like any other trend, the ...
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Impressions
by Angelo Leonardi
Prossimo ai settanta Mark Harvey continua a guidare l'Aardvark Jazz Orchestra che ha fondato 42 anni fa. La formazione è poco nota fuori degli Stati Uniti ma vanta un percorso glorioso, documentato da dodici album, di cui sette incisi per la Leo Records. Nel corso della sua storia ha ospitato musicisti di primo piano come Jaki ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Giuffre
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Giuffre's birthday today! Reedman and composer Jimmy Giuffre was born in Dallas, TX. He started his musical education at age 9 learning the clarinet and within few years he was proficient enough to give solo clarinet recitals at local functions. After high school he attended North Texas State University receiving ...
James Falzone: The Room Is
by Mark Corroto
Legend has it that Jimmy Giuffre harbored a vehement distaste for the use of percussion in his ensembles. He found drummers distracting, irritating and clamorous. By the time he recorded the classic records 1961 (ECM, 1992) and Free Fall (Columbia, 1963) he had jettisoned drummers from his piano and bass trio. It must have driven marketing ...
The Julian Lage Trio at Richmond Congregational Church
by Doug Collette
The Julian Lage Trio Congregational Church Richmond, Vermont February 15, 2015 Striding from the vestibule to the stage of this tiny house of worship, The Julian Lage Trio were afforded a hearty round of applause, which was just a precursor to further acclamation in the form of whoops and hollers that ...
Dave McDonnell Group: The Dragon & the Griffin
by Stefano Merighi
Chicagoano ma attivo a Cincinnati, Dave McDonnell è sassofonista jazz, insegnante di musica e tecnologia, inventore di software, protagonista in diversi gruppi tra cui Herculaneum. Il gruppo in questione coinvolge nomi ben noti della attuale scena di Chicago, tra cui Joshua Abrams e Frank Rosaly, poderosa sezione ritmica che in questo caso garantisce solidità a una ...
