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Human Element: Human Element
by John Kelman
Things may not always work out the way they're planned, but that doesn't mean that can't actually work out better. When keyboardist Scott Kinsey began work on the overdue follow-up to his well-received (and equally overdue) debut as a leader, Kinesthetics (Abstract Logix, 2006), the plan was to focus on a small, consistent line-up, as opposed ...
David Sylvian Announced as Artist in Residence for Punkt 2011
David Sylvian has been confirmed as Artist in Residence for the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway (September 1-3). Sylvian will be creating an audiovisual installation entitled “Uncommon Deities," and will curate an evening of concerts, including the debut live performance of his 1988 release Plight and Premonition. In addition to Sylvian, this concert will feature John ...
Walter Kolosky: Affairs of the Heart
by Ian Patterson
It took journalist Walter Kolosky eight months to put together Follow Your Heart: John McLaughlin Song by Song (Abstract Logix, 2010), though, in effect, this impressive listener's guide has been the culmination of a lifetime listening to the English guitarist's music. Kolosky has written extensively on McLaughlin's music for many years, and has interviewed him many ...
Ketil Bjornstad / Svante Henryson: Night Song
by John Kelman
The relative merits of technical aptitude, when it comes to music, are often hotly debated. Surely possessing more comprehensive and masterful control over the vocabulary of music would be a plus; how, then, can a raw, unschooled bluesman like Robert Johnson resonate in ways that more schooled artists sometimes cannot? Proficiency, then, is really only an ...
Santiago, Dominican Republic, Becomes the Jazz Capital of the Americas for Three Days
The Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic, the Institute of Caribbean Studies (INEC) and Centro León, will host the Fourth International Conference Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean (MIC). The conference will be 15, 16 and April 17, 2011, in the facilities of Centro León in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The theme for this conference ...
Randy Newman: Ottawa, Canada, March 28, 2011
by John Kelman
Randy NewmanCentrepointe Theatre, Ottawa, Canada March 28, 2011 While it's not been the 25 years that he cited as the time that's passed since his last Ottawa performance--he was actually in town for the 2007 Ottawa Bluesfest--it was his first time playing in a theater setting in Ottawa since the mid-1980s, ...
Marc Copland: Crosstalk
by John Kelman
After spending the early part of the 2000s in a recording spree that found him releasing as many as four albums each year on a variety of labels, Marc Copland has, since 2006, parked his piano with Germany's upstart Pirouet label. It's clearly been a fruitful pairing, with Copland releasing a variety of albums, in 2009 ...
Trio Mediaeval: Toronto, Canada, March 23, 2011
by John Kelman
Trio Mediaeval with The Toronto ConsortSt. Anne's Anglican Church Toronto, Canada March 23, 2011 When there's the kind of chemistry that Trio Mediaeval has sharpened over the past decade, the loss of one of its singers--even if temporary--could be a recipe for, if not disaster, then, at least, a significant shift ...
Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Strings
by John Kelman
Artists are often defined--and pigeon-holed--by the music that's had the best distribution, not necessarily their best music. Not that any of the fusion discs that Jean-Luc Ponty recorded in the mid-'70s are bad; far from it. But the music the Frenchman released, before he moved to the United States, reveals a different formative period for the ...
Albatrosh: Mystery Orchestra with Grenager & Talfjord
by John Kelman
Duos can represent a double-edged sword: on one hand, no other context is as intimate, where the level of communication can be as deep, the lines of communication so open; equally, however, there are the inherent limitations on its possible sound worlds, the result of the specific textural, harmonic and rhythmic capabilities of the instruments involved. ...
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