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Article: Album Review

François Carrier/ Michel Lambert/ John Edwards/ Steve Beresford: Overground To The Vortex

Read "Overground To The Vortex" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 15, 2013

The adventures of François Carrier continue with Overground To The Vortex. The well-traveled Canadian saxophonist has recorded in Nepal--KATHMANDU (FMR, 2008), St. Petersburg, Russia with All Out (FMR, 2011) and In Motion (Leo, 2011), of course Canada Entrance 3 (Ayler, 2011), and this release in Great Britain, where he made his Shores and Ditches (FMR Records,2012).

Article: Album Review

Sophie Agnel/ John Edwards/ Steve Noble: Meteo

by Mark Corroto
June 11, 2013

The liner notes said it best, ..."listening is a form of improvisation." To be sure, no two listeners come away from Meteo with the same experience. This single track (38:25) live recording from the 2012 Festival Météo in Mulhouse France is a first time meeting of the French pianist Sophie Agnel and the British rhythm section ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

by Mark Corroto
May 22, 2013

"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...

Article: Album Review

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Now Is

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 9, 2013

Potremmo essere velocissimi. Il bassista norvegese che oggi abbraccia gli orizzonti texani è davvero uno dei musicisti che sono entrati da qualche anno nel gotha del free più creativo e propositivo. La portoghese Clean Feed, che lo sa da qualche tempo, lo santifica nuovamente con questo Now Is che potrebbe davvero essere la definitiva consacrazione di ...

Article: Film Review

The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Concert For Fukushima Wels 2011

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 28, 2013

The Peter Brötzmann Chicago TentetConcert For Fukushima Wels 2011PanRec/Trost Records2013 In 2011 the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria, celebrated Peter Brötzmann's 70th birthday (as well as the festival's 25th year edition), under the title Long Story Short. Brötzmann was asked to curate the program and after ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Maxim Micheliov

by AAJ Staff
April 17, 2013

I currently live in: Vilnius, LithuaniaI joined All About Jazz in: 2010What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? My professional background is in web marketing, and I connected with Michael Ricci through Chris Rich, who encouraged me to submit my first article “Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music." High ...

Article: Album Review

konstruKt w/Peter Brotzmann: Eklisia Sunday

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by Mark Corroto
April 8, 2013

The Turkish free jazz outfit KonstruKt might be considered the most evolved improvisational band working in jazz today. Founded, not in the hotbeds of jazz, London, New York, Chicago, Wuppertal, or Krakow, their isolation is the key to their success. Well, isolation and observation. Although this band was formed in 2008, their ...

News: Festival

Change Of The Century - New Jazz For The 21st, to Present Cutting-Edge Contemporary Jazz Artists Monthly at The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY

February 24, 2013

Beginning in March and continuing into the summer, the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY will present a monthly series, “Change of the Century – New Jazz for the 21st”, featuring some of the most exciting figures in contemporary music. Organized by local musician, writer and multimedia artist James Keepnews, “Change of the Century” intends to ...

News: Event

Arts For Art Opens March With Evolving Music

February 20, 2013

Evolving Music in March from Arts for Art and Vision Festival opens the lion and lamb month and unfolds over the course of four days from March first to the fourth. involving Friday & Saturday nights, a Sunday afternoon family friendly adventure to let the kids do live action drawing and a concluding Monday evening Evolution. ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Peter Brotzmann: Long Story Short

by Mark Corroto
February 11, 2013

Whether you have no experience with the Godfather of free jazz or you measure your Peter Brötzmann CD and LP collection in linear feet, this 5CD box curated by the German saxophonist is either a great introduction to or an affirmation of his music and influence.Organized on the occasion of his 70th birthday, these ...