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Brad Mehldau: Formation: Building A Personal Canon, Part One

by Ian Patterson
Formation: Building A Personal Canon, Part One Brad Mehldau 312 Pages ISBN: 9781800503137 Equinox Publishing 2023 In the considerable wake of Keith Jarrett, it is hard to think of another pianist as influential or as widely imitated as Brad Mehldau. Throughout a career that began in the ...
John McLaughlin And Zakir Hussain: Shakti's Half-Century Of Spontaneous Joy

by Mike Jacobs
John McLaughlin. Ustad Zakir Hussain. Speak either name and a host of musical notions can come to mind. Pair them together and they conjure just one: Shakti. Indeed, the iconic jazz guitarist and celebrated Indian percussionist have each built long careers replete with enough musical achievements, stylistic innovations and instrumental mastery to gain entrance ...
Catching Up With Matthew Shipp

by Mark Corroto
As Matthew Shipp enters his sixth decade he has nothing left to prove to the jazz cognoscenti. He has for 40-plus years worked at crafting an instantly recognizable language at the piano. When he moved to Manhattan's Lower East Side in the '80s, he immersed himself in the same do-it -yourself culture that produced the post-punk ...
Mike Melito: To Swing Is The Thing

by Jack Bowers
The leader of any group whose credo is To Swing Is the Thing had best enlist some hired hands whose propensity to swing is sure and steady, regardless of mood or tempo. Veteran drummer Mike Melito's talented quintet runs that course without breaking a sweat, lending Melito all the help he needs to keep his eighth ...
Guitar Shaman Ron Bosse Kicks Off Tour Showcasing Jeff Lorber-Produced Hit Album 'Burning Room Only'

Jazz Improvisation + Rock & Roll Abandon = Deep Thrills Ron Bosse is taking his hit album Burning Room Only on the road with a band featuring jazz fusion pioneer and Grammy Award winner Jeff Lorber, who produced and played keyboards on all tracks on the set. A high-octane instrumental album at the intersection of jazz, ...
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The Jazz Doctors: Intensive Care / Prescriptions Filled

by Chris May
Beyond its initiates, the so-called New Thing which emerged in mainly, but not exclusively, Black US jazz in the 1960s/70s, was perceived so amorphously that prairie-wide distinctions between its practitioners went unregarded. Among the general jazz audience, the musicians were lumped together as a horde of crazed zombies who lacked all technique, and who had replaced ...
Noah Howard: Quartet To At Judson Hall, Revisited

by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Noah Howard is a musician deserving wider recognition. Born in New Orleans in 1943, like many black musicians he began playing music in the church. After a stint in the army, he settled on the West Coast where the avant-garde was progressing outside the purview of New York, which at the time was considered the ...
Dimitri Grechi Espinoza: Love Is a Losing Game

by Neri Pollastri
Prosegue da ormai dieci anni OREB, la ricerca solitaria di Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, che con il suo sax tenore esplora le possibilità sonore di chiese, cripte e cisterne sotterranee, giocando con le eco, i riverberi e le altre particolarità acustiche che gli restituiscono in tempo reale le note del suo strumento. Dopo averla messa ...
Dimitri Grechi Espinoza: la tranquillità interiore per suonare gli standard

by Neri Pollastri
Senza volerlo, le nostre interviste a Dimitri Grechi Espinoza hanno una curiosa cadenza decennale: la prima fu nel 2003, quando il sassofonista russo-livornese stava facendo crescere il suo Dinamitri Jazz Folklore; la seconda nel 2014, quando il Dinamitri suonava con Amiri Baraka e il musicista aveva attivo un eccellente duo con Tito Mangialajo Rantzer; siamo di ...