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Article: Album Review

Bruno Råberg Quartet with Phil Grenadier, Allan Chase and Austin McMahon: Hot Box

Read "Hot Box" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 1, 2015

Bassist Bruno Råberg and trumpeter Phil Grenadier had previously offered a brilliant duo collection with the 2012 Plunge (Orbis Music) and here--under Råberg's leadership--expand to a quartet formation for the equally imaginative Hot Box. The collection features compositions both by the Swedish born Råberg and group improvised pieces. Unlike the Råberg/Grenadier duo outing, the leader's electronic ...

Article: Live Review

Young Jazz 2015

by Angelo Leonardi
June 1, 2015

Young Jazz 2015 Foligno 20-24.05.2015 Giunto all'undicesima edizione, lo Young Jazz Festival si conferma il massimo appuntamento italiano dedicato ai giovani talenti del jazz internazionale, in una logica che privilegia le sperimentazioni e le nuove tendenze. Accanto alle consuete aperture al contesto cittadino e al sociale (con la mostra ...

Article: Interview

Dave Douglas: There's Wisdom Everywhere in the Universe

by Dave Wayne
May 25, 2015

We're republishing this June 2013 in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music record label. When All About Jazz last spoke with trumpeter, multi-bandleader, teacher, composer, marathon runner, podcaster, and record label head honcho Dave Douglas in November, 2011, he was in the Ukraine on the last leg of a ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Wadada Leo Smith, fenomenologia di un maestro

by Luca Canini
May 18, 2015

Non tutti i maestri sono uguali. C'è chi sceglie di farsi da parte, riducendo al minimo gli sconfinamenti, gli azzardi, i contatti con situazioni potenzialmente rischiose. E c'è chi invece si ostina a cercare, a condividere; tenendo fede a quella che del jazz è la suprema vocazione: la fisiologica tendenza a includere, in un continuo sovrapporsi ...

Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
May 11, 2015

Bray Jazz Festival 2015 Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2015 Sunshine and squall. The sun and the clouds chased each other's tails throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend of the Bray Jazz Festival. In a way the weather mirrored the music--a pleasingly eclectic, bracing mixture--and the fortunes of the ...

Article: Lyrics

Storie (minime) di chitarra

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 11, 2015

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 ...

News: Recording

Woodwind Expert Steven Lugerner Announces Digital Single With Fred Hersch; West Coast Dates; Upcoming CD By Jacknife

May 6, 2015

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Daniel - Galichet - Metzger: Killing Spree

Read "Killing Spree" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 29, 2015

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 ...

Article: Rediscovery

Trilok Gurtu: Bad Habits Die Hard

by John Kelman
April 16, 2015

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 ...

Article: Live Review

Gabriele Coen Trio al Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
April 1, 2015

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 ...