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Dieter Glawischnig: Winged by Distance (Live at Theater Gütersloh)

Read "Winged by Distance (Live at Theater Gütersloh)" reviewed by Luigi Sforza


Animatore musicale della cosiddetta scena musicale creativa ed improvvista europea sin dagli anni Settanta, il pianista e polistrumentista austriaco Dieter Glawischnig --che vanta numerose collaborazioni, tra gli altri con Anthony Braxton, Karl Berger, Albert Mangelsdorff, John Surman e Conny Bauer--documenta in Winged by Distance (Live at Theatre Gutersloh) un'esibizione improntata al “qui ed ora," in cui ...

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Kit Downes Tom Challenger: Vyamanikal

Read "Vyamanikal" reviewed by Duncan Heining


This a beautiful and elegiac record but one that is not afraid to walk in the shadows. Other artists have utilised the combination of saxophone and organ--John Surman and Howard Moody's Rain on the Window and Jan Garbarek and Kjell Johnsen's Aftenland spring to mind. However, Kit Downes and Tom Challenger's Vyamanikal is quite different in ...

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Harry Beckett: Still Happy

Read "Still Happy" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Barbados-born Harry Beckett was known across the jazz world, respected as a major player on the UK scene for many years, winning the Melody Maker Trumpeter of the Year award in 1972 and recording or performing with a host of musicians including Louis Moholo, John Dankworth and John Surman. Like many jazz players he was in ...

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Tori Freestone Trio: El Barranco

Read "El Barranco" reviewed by Roger Farbey


El Barranco is the Tori Freestone Trio's follow-up to their 2014 debut album In The Chop House, released once again on the ever-burgeoning Whirlwind Recordings label. The chordless sound of the trio evinces a warmth which inevitably invites comparisons with the chief progenitor of this configuration, Sonny Rollins and his 1957 album Way Out ...

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Enten Eller: trentennale con disco (doppio?)

Read "Enten Eller: trentennale con disco (doppio?)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


C'è una storia che comincia nel 1986 e prende il nome dai sacri testi kierkegaardiani: trattasi di Enten Eller, oggi (e ormai da vent'anni) un quartetto ben definito, con Alberto Mandarini alla tromba, Maurizio Brunod alla chitarra, Giovanni Maier al contrabbasso e Massimo Barbiero alla batteria, ma dopo aggiustamenti che di fatto hanno occupato il primo ...

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John Surman: Morning Glory

Read "Morning Glory" reviewed by Roger Farbey


This is the first John Surman-authorised reissue of his seminal album released on the Island Records label in 1973 (ILPS9237) that acted as a signal delineation between what preceded it (a relatively conventional approach with an emphasis on blistering baritone saxophone outings) and what was to follow (the far more pastoral ECM years, albeit with the ...

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John Surman: Westering Home

Read "Westering Home" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Originally released on Chris Blackwell's Island Records, John Surman's first solo album was a complete departure from his previous works. It presaged the canon of pastoral solo recordings he was to produce later for ECM in contrast to his more robust and conventionally orchestrated recordings. His second and final album for Island, Morning Glory, ...

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Bob Downes Open Music: Blowin' With Bass

Read "Blowin' With Bass" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi


Bob Downes, compositore e polistrumentista britannico, estrae dal proprio magic box un'altra chicca che farà fellce gli appassionati di jazz, o meglio, di British Jazz. Il movimento che, a partire della fine degli anni Sessanta, produsse un pimpante manipolo di musicisti-pionieri che ancora oggi calcano le scene internazionali come Evan Parker, John Surman, Keith Tippett, John ...

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Tim Garland: Songs to the North Sky

Read "Songs to the North Sky" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Noto internazionalmente per la sua collaborazione con Chick Corea, il non ancora cinquantenne polistrumentista inglese Tim Garland presenta in questo doppio CD una fotografia della sua attuale attività creativa, documentando nel primo disco il suo trio Lighthouse e nel secondo la sua suite per trio jazz e orchestra d'archi Songs to the North Sky.

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Francesco Chiapperini e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Francesco Chiapperini e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by AAJ Staff


All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Francesco Chiapperini: Molte mie composizioni hanno un suono “scuro." Sono infatti spesso caratterizzate da una tensione sonora che provoca, nelle orecchie di chi le ascolta, una sensazione di sofferenza. Ed è proprio tale sensazione che associo alla musica che, quindi, assume per me ...


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