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Storie (minime) di chitarra
by Alberto Bazzurro
Non c'è strumento stilisticamente più tentacolare della chitarra, assolutamente centrale nel rock e nel blues, nel flamenco e in tanta musica latinoamericana, nel country e in svariata canzone d'autore, nella tradizione gitana e in altri anfratti ancora dello scibile sonoro planetario (nel jazz e nella classica occupa posizioni magari più appartate ma solidissime), destino tutto sommato ...
Woodwind Expert Steven Lugerner Announces Digital Single With Fred Hersch; West Coast Dates; Upcoming CD By Jacknife
The greatest improvisers keep an eye open for stimulating new musical settings. San Francisco Bay Area woodwind expert Steven Lugerner, a rising star with a bevy of exceptional albums, has proven adept at creating situations that take jazz’s foremost masters into unexpected realms. His latest album, the digital-only release Gravitations Vol. II, is a gorgeous duo ...
Daniel - Galichet - Metzger: Killing Spree
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist Matthieu Metzger extends his multi-tracked applications and concepts, evidenced on Self Cooking (Ayler, 2012) with this aggressive trio format, steeped in punk jazz, free jazz, metal jazz and progressive rock. Hold on to your seats as they say because these folks will knock your socks off with a consortium of high-velocity, in-your-face metrics and astute ...
Trilok Gurtu: Bad Habits Die Hard
by John Kelman
Trilok GurtuBad Habits Die HardArt of Groove2014 (1996) Well, it's been a good couple weeks since the last Rediscovery, leaving the pile of potential choices even higher than usual. So what better way to resume operations than to revisit an album that already sounded terrific when it was first released in ...
Gabriele Coen Trio al Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 31.1.2015 Gabriele Coen era già passato da Firenze con il programma del suo ultimo lavoro Yiddish Melodies in Jazz: l'aveva fatto nell'estate di due anni fa, nel cortile della Sinagoga, ed era stato uno splendido concerto. Ma in quell'occasione si era presentato in quartetto con ...
Bill Laswell: No Boundaries
by Nenad Georgievski
For some people music is a mere entertainment product, a pastime amusement. For others music is a powerful force and the act of its creation carries within itself a sense of discovery. Bill Laswell's music, production and remixes have always carried that sense of discovery and riskiness. Multifariously creative and independent, he has always been revered ...
Caterina Palazzi e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Caterina Palazzi: Schizofrenia, angoscia, tenebre... AAJI: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me C.P.: Passionalità AAJI: Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stata più felice. C.P.:Il momento in cui sono ...
Live From Birmingham: Amy Roberts, Richard Exall, Bruce Coates, John Edwards, Mark Sanders, GoGo Penguin & Mammal Hands
by Martin Longley
The Amy Roberts/Richard Exall Jazz Band Solihull British Legion March 8, 2015 Shockingly, this regular club at Solihull British Legion, so accustomed to traditional New Orleans trotters, had booked a band that specialises in jazz from a slightly later time period. Precedents already existed, though, and the regulars have ...
Twin Cities
by Andrea Canter
Welcome to the first in a series of Jazz Near You articles where we raise the awareness of advocacy and catalyst organizations whose efforts are making a positive impact on their local jazz communities. This article was co-written by Don Berryman The Jazz Police website launched in spring 2004, initially intending to ...
Hypercolor: Hypercolor
by Dave Wayne
The past few months have seen a stream of truly--and in some cases mind-bogglingly--wonderful guitar-centric power trio albums. Yet, the eponymous debut of the Brooklyn-based avant-jazz-rock band Hypercolor stands out, but not for the reasons you'd think. Sure, the trio consists of musical brainiacs James Ilgenfritz and Lukas Ligeti; genre omnivores whose own work and collaborations ...
