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Article: Interview

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Setting the Record Straight

by Troy Collins
January 21, 2013

Mostly Other People Do the Killing is frequently typecast as one of today's most humorously irreverent young jazz groups, based in no small part on their provocative name, which was inspired by a quote attributed to inventor Leon Theremin--a survivor of the Soviet gulag who exonerated Stalin because “mostly other people did the killing." Bassist and ...

Album

Imaginary Landscapes

By John Cage

Label: New Jazz Noises
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Imaginary landscape nr. 1 (1939) – 6:24; 02. Imaginary landscape nr. 3 (1942) – 3:04; 03. Imaginary landscape nr. 5 (1952) – 3:04; 04. Imaginary landscape nr. 2 (1942) – 5:33; 05 Imaginary landscape nr. 4 (1951) – 5:52; Sixteen dances (1951): 06. I-IV – 8:26; 07. V-VIII – 10:52; IX-XII – 10:20; XIII-XVI – 13:50.

Article: Extended Analysis

Various Artists: Wandelweiser Und So Weiter

by John Eyles
December 5, 2012

Various ArtistsWanderweiser Und So WeiterAnother Timbre2012This ambitious six-disc boxed set will surely come to be seen as a landmark release from Another Timbre. Whereas the label has previously issued four or five separate CDs at a time, linked by some overarching theme--for instance, “Duos with brass" or “The ...

Article: Interview

Lou Cohen: Opening the Door

by Gordon Marshall
November 28, 2012

In his cushy, classy, elegant two-story home just outside of Central Square in Cambridge, MA, Lou Cohen introduces his Symphony 5: from a laptop, jammed together fragments of elegant new music unfold, spaced out so that breath can enter in the interstices... Then the sound of roiling, rolling violins getting impacted: all is mellow and peaceful ...

Article: Book Review

Is Jazz Dead? Or Is It Just Pining for the Fjords?

by Duncan Heining
October 5, 2012

Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address?)Stuart Nicholson288 pages, softcoverISBN: 978-0415975834Routledge2005Stuart Nicholson's Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved To A New Address?) came out in 2005 and has proved a remarkably successful book for both author and his publisher. ...

Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012

by Ted Harms
September 23, 2012

Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...

Article: Lyrics

Cage @ 100

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2012

John Milton Cage (Los Angeles, 5 settembre 1912 - New York, 12 agosto 1992): compositore americano. Figura chiave del novecento musicale, pensatore, filosofo sociale, pittore, anche micologo, collezionista di sassi, giocatore di scacchi. Quest'anno si celebrano cent'anni dalla sua nascita e venti dalla morte. Inevitabile che All About Jazz proponesse uno speciale su uno dei più ...

Article: Album Review

John Cage: Imaginary Landscapes

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2012

Nell'anno dei festeggiamenti della ricorrenza di nascita e morte di John Cage Stradivarius dà alle stampe due importanti capisaldi della discografia cageana--Imaginary Landscapes e Sixteen Dances --, con una registrazione realizzata nell'ambito dell'edizione di Traiettorie 2009 come iniziativa inserita nella giornata di studi dedicata a John Cage, promossa dall'Istituzione Casa della Musica di Parma. L'importanza di ...

Article: Book Review

Giancarlo Cardini: la musica, il novecento

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2012

Giancarlo Cardini: la musica, il novecento. A colloquio con uno dei principali musicisti contemporane. Di Paolo Carradori. Nota di Sylvano Bussotti, saggi di Renzo Cresti e Mario Gamba. Appendice fotografica. Marco del Bucchia editore (2011); 152 pp.. Giancarlo Cardini: la musica, il novecento è un omaggio ad uno dei pianisti più importanti e significativi del Novecento ...

Article: Lyrics

John Cage e la rete

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2012

John Cage e la rete. John Cage e youtube. Frammenti, schegge, improbabili cover, filmati d'annata, interviste, incontri, seriose interpretazioni, sarcastiche prese per i fondelli. C'è di tutto un po.' Una matassa difficile da sbrogliare. Più che un viaggio, un rompicapo. Però ci si può divertire saltellando qua e là. Gli spunti abbondano. E allora meglio svestire ...