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Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis
by Chris May
Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis Editor: Daniel Kernohan Paperback; 280 pagesISBN: 9781895166047Chavari Press2010 Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis is a book many jazz fans would probably like to write. It is, basically, a list of favorite albums. ...
Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa
by Nenad Georgievski
A question that has always been asked, regardless of genre, is whether music can be conservative and revolutionary at the same time. Various composers have surfaced in recent times with brilliant compositions, but their work has not adhered to any of the schools of composition that make up the 20th century classical music. These composers have ...
David Lopato: Many Moons
by Karl Ackermann
Pianist/composer, David Lopato's long career has included turns with prominent players in the fields of avant-garde jazz and classical, world music, theater, free improvisation and modern jazz. In particular, he has done outstanding jazz work with Gerry Hemingway, David Mott, Wadada Leo Smith and Joe Lovano. Given the wide and varied circles Lopato travels in, it ...
David Lopato: Many Moons
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist David Lopato's Many Moons could just as easily have been called Many Moods, with the variety of approaches he takes on these twelve original piano pieces. Jazz is only one area of expertise on Lopato's large resume, which also includes extensive studies on African drumming and Javanese gamelan, scoring work for theater and dance, and ...
Ron Thomas: Two Lonely People
by Dan McClenaghan
A spin through pianist Ron Thomas's discography as a leader doesn't always directly point toward the music found on Two Lonely People. His two masterful trio outings, Music in Three Parts (Art of Life Records, 2006) and Doloroso (Art of Life Records, 2006) are both full of abstract and elastic originals; the highly electric and compellingly ...
Microscopic Septet: Chance Meeting with the Future
by Gordon Marshall
The Microscopic Septet is all about swing, but swing in a sense extrapolated from the stale, dated pages of the past. Its take on the music of the '30s and '40s is too scholarly to fall off the map as retro, and too deeply felt to be dismissed as a dusty trove of museum pieces. The ...
Italian improvisers break out of Musica Improvvisa box
by Mark Corroto
VariousMusica Improvvisadie Schachtel2010 Sometimes a box set of music becomes a fetish item. One that listeners (or collectors) form an irrational or excessive commitment to because it embodies some sort of magical or spiritual powers. Such may be the case for the 10-CD/DVD set ...
The Grizzler Big Band: Dave's Not Here
by Gordon Marshall
Dave Gross, Andrew Eisenberg, Steve Norton, et al.November 12, 2010Private Loft, Fort Point ChannelBoston, MassA giant, three-pound onion ring keeps growing. “Now, it's four pounds!" says the announcer. “It seemed like an overly heavy onion blossom," musician Angela Sawyer said. “It was in a cartoon on Adult Swim in 2002. It ...
Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Days 3-4, November 6-7, 2010
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Days 3-4 Tampere Jazz HappeningTampere, FinlandNovember 4-7, 2010 While most festivals aim to keep the energy, commitment and creativity levels high, few succeed at starting with a high bar and raising it continuously throughout the course of the event. While the first two days of ...
Miles Davis: Previously Unreleased 1980s Recordings
by Chris May
Miles DavisPerfect Way: The Miles Davis Anthology: The Warner Bros. YearsWarner Jazz2010 The composer John Cage related a funny story about an encounter with trumpeter Miles Davis. It happened at a US airport sometime in the mid 1980s. Cage was travelling with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the ...
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