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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 5 - May 19, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Elliott Sharp, Art Bears SongbookFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 19, 2008 Programming milestone years for any festival is a challenge, but even more so than most for Festival International Musique ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 2 - May 16, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Tim Brady / Fred Frith Cosa Brava / John Zorn MoonchildFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16, 2008Outside, as it is, of the conventional summer festival season, one might think the highly ...
Norma Winstone: Distances
by John Kelman
For some, the most intimate setting of choice is the duo. For Norma Winstone, while working in larger groups over the past five decades, her recorded history with ECM suggests that this British vocalist's preferred setting is the trio--specifically one with piano/keyboards and a wind or brass instrument. From the minimalism-meets- improvisation of Azimuth to the ...
Norwegian Jazz 101: JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2008
by John Kelman
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 Since the early 1970s, the Norwegian music scene has received increasing international exposure, first through the German ECM label, but over time with an increasing number of Norwegian labels including Odin, NorCD, Curling Legs, Rune Grammofon and Jazzland. For a country of less than five million ...
Dave Liebman Group, Ottawa, Canada, April 24, 2008
by John Kelman
Dave Liebman Group Cafe Paradiso Ottawa, Canada April 24, 2008 Aside from the annual TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival, it's rare that Ottawans get to experience a group that has, for many years, successfully brought together a lifetime's worth of experience into a sound encompassing all ...
Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life
by John Kelman
Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is most often remembered for his spare, often slow and lengthy compositions, where space is a key component. Kronos Quartet's version of Piano and String Quartet (Elektra/Nonesuch, 1991) is a prime example of the richness and depth Feldman achieved through use of space and gradual, almost imperceptible evolution. While scored, Feldman's Indeterministic ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: Re-Vision
by John Kelman
The music of Norwegian trumpeter/Nu Jazz progenitor, Nils Petter Molvaer, has always been cinematic. Call it music for a non-existent movie or a film of the mind, Molvaer's albums, beginning with the groundbreaking Khmer (ECM, 1997), have always been about aural landscapes evocative of highly personal imagery and plenty of club-ready grooves. Even in performance, the ...
Karl Seglem: urbs
by John Kelman
Karl Seglem's solo performance at the 2006 Punkt festival in Kristiansand, Norway prompted the observation that he is, indeed, the Hendrix of the Goat Horn. That anyone could take such a pure and organic instrument, feed it through an array of effects and come out the other side with a mix of contemporary jazz, Norwegian folk ...
George Schuller's Circle Wide: Like Before, Somewhat After
by John Kelman
Despite Keith Jarrett's ongoing success as a solo improviser and standards interpreter, many bemoan his decision to stop writing in the mid-1970s. Improvisation may be spontaneous composition but, with his 1970s American and Scandinavian Quartets, the pianist created a songbook that remains influential to this day. George Schuller's Round 'Bout Now (Playscape, 2004) was a thoroughly ...
Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live
by John Kelman
Eagle Eye Media 2001 (reissued 2008) Some artists are revolutionary, others are evolutionary. Some manage to be both, and guitarist Pat Metheny is one of a small group of artists who, always moving forward, occasionally make more striking stylistic leaps. With a string of consistently strong albums that began with Pat Metheny ...
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