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Article: Interview

Intervista a Corrado Beldì, Direttore Artistico di NovaraJazz

Read "Intervista a Corrado Beldì, Direttore Artistico di NovaraJazz" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Tra i festival nazionali NovaraJazz sta sempre più guadagnandosi un posto di rilievo, vuoi per l'originalità delle proposte artistiche, spesso arricchite da produzioni originali, vuoi per il modo singolare in cui vengono realizzati gli spettacoli, disseminati nel tessuto cittadino e negli spazi naturali che lo circondano. Abbiamo intervistato uno dei direttori artistici, Corrado Beldì, per sapere ...

Article: Interview

Francesco Chiapperini, una storia bigama

Read "Francesco Chiapperini, una storia bigama" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Pugliese di nascita ma lombardo d'adozione, classe 1978, Francesco Chiapperini, clarinettista e sassofonista nonché compositore, è senza ombra di dubbio uno dei nomi più interessanti emersi in questi ultimi anni nel panorama del jazz di casa nostra. Il suo ultimo album, The Big Earth, inciso dal vivo alla Scighera di Milano da un organico di dodici ...

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Article: Album Review

John Surman: Invisible Threads

Read "Invisible Threads" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Dopo oltre 50 anni di attività professionale, il sassofonista britannico John Surman è ancora in grado di sorprenderci. Lo fa con il suo nuovo lavoro, pubblicato sempre dalla ECM, a 6 anni di distanza dal precedente Saltash Bells. Questo Invisible Threads è nato quasi per caso, da un incontro fortuito del sassofonista con la musica brasiliana ...

Article: Live Review

John Surman Trio a Crossroads 2018

Read "John Surman Trio a Crossroads 2018" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


John Surman Trio Teatro Comunale Crossroads 2018 Castel S. Pietro Terme 15.04.2018 Facendo seguito alla recente pubblicazione del loro CD Invisible Threads, il trio formato dal sassofonista inglese John Surman, dal pianista brasiliano Nelson Ayres e dal vibrafonista americano (ma, come Surman, residente in Norvegia) Rob Waring si è ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Interview with James Brandon Lewis & Further Notable New Releases

Read "Interview with James Brandon Lewis & Further Notable New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Great new albums keep coming and we are previewing them for you. In this episode we interview saxophone titan James Brandon Lewis, and sample music from his upcoming duo album Radiant Imprints with Chad Taylor. Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash and Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Caroline Davis “Dionisyan" ...

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Article: The Big Question

Presenting Problem

Read "Presenting Problem" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...

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Article: Album Review

Julian Siegel Quartet: Vista

Read "Vista" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Julian Siegel is an in-demand and award-winning British saxophonist who teaches saxophone in the jazz department of London's Royal Academy of Music. This is his Quartet's follow-up to their London Jazz award-winning album Urban Theme Park (Basho Records). Although Siegel is no stranger to Whirlwind Recordings in his role as a member of Partisans who released ...

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Article: Album Review

John Surman: Invisible Threads

Read "Invisible Threads" reviewed by Samuel Stroup


Half a century into his musical career, English reed player John Surman continues to find outlets to explore a wide variety of introspective compositions. Invisible Threads, out on ECM, finds Surman exploring folk and world music, accompanied by pianist Nelson Ayres and mallet percussionist Rob Waring. The album features Surman's woodwind melodies bouncing atop piano and ...

Album

Where Fortune Smiles

Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Glancing Backwards (For Junior); Earthbound Hearts; Where Fortune Smiles; New Place, Old Place; Hope.

Album

Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

Label: Turtle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing:
CD 1:
Hooray!; Landscape; Waltz (for Joanna); Landscape (II); Other World; Marching Song.
CD 2:
Transition; Home; Rosie; Prelude; Tension; Introduction; Ballad; Conflict; Requiem; Tarnished; Memorial.
CD 3:
Marching Song; When Young; But It Must Get Better, And It Will Get Better; Original Peter; Magic Garden.


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