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Steph Richards, Kuba Plużek and More
by Maurice Hogue
The much-acclaimed Australian saxophonist Sandy Evans' passion for combining jazz improvisation and Indian music continues unabated on her latest recording Bridge of Dreams. She brought together some top musicians from India, including the incredible vocalist Shubha Mudgal, Sandy's frequent accompanist tabla player Bobby Singh and the Sirens Big Band from Sydney for the project. Recently, the ...
Russ Lossing, Jasper Blom and More
by Maurice Hogue
Sometimes a recording catches you by surprise. Such is the case with Swedish bassist Thomas Markusson's Open. Only one of the musicians was familiar, the pianist Naoko Sakata who moved from Japan to Sweden where she could play the kind of music that wasn't popular in Japan. Sakata definitely found the right company. Markusson is a ...
Berlin Jazzfest 2017
by Henning Bolte
Haus der Berliner Festspiele Jazzfest Berlin Berlin November 4-5, 2017 This year it was the last edition of Berlin Jazzfest under the aegis of British artistic director Richard Williams. With its “In All Languages" adage running through the six-day program as red thread, the festival still had promising ...
Forget Old Europe: 15 European Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About
by Enrico Bettinello
Since the first half of the 20th century, the Old Continent has played a pivotal role both in welcoming and supporting jazz artists from the United States. Over the following decades it has expressed generations of passionate musicians with increasingly original languages and ever greater improvisatory skills. In the 21st century there are countless ...
Mn'JAM experiment: Live with a Boom
by Chris M. Slawecki
Can computers be programmed to improvise? That's just one of the questions you'll consider in response to Live with a Boom, the first multimedia presentation by Melissa Oliveira and João Artur Moreira (JAM) with other like-minded colleagues in the Mn'JAM experiment. You can trace the modern, global (perhaps post-modern, post-global) sound of Oliveira's ensemble ...
Sometimes Jazz Takes Guts
by Chris M. Slawecki
Brownout Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath II Ubiquity Records 2016 Brownout bandleader and guitarist Adrian Quesada listened to a lot of different music, including blood-curdling heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath, while growing up in South Texas. Even while creating original music more reflective of their Mexican and American funk, ...
Reinier Baas vs. Princess Discombobulatrix
By Reinier Baas
Label: Mainland Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. The Village Awakens 03:57
2. The Dance of Princess Discombobulatrix / The Wizard's Awakening 06:50
3. Seduction of The Duke of Waalwijk 03:39
4. The General Serenades 03:40
5. A Stroll In The Enchanted Forest 01:13
6. Duke vs General / Wizard vs Princess 05:06
7. Discombobula Disappears 02:31
8. Introduction to Rise and Fall 02:16
9. The Rise and Fall of The Duke of Waalwijk 03:43
10. Introduction to Waltz 02:05
11. Waltz of The Enormous Wizard Zendor 02:27
12. Discombobula Re-appears 02:26
13. The Horrible Revenge of Princess Discombobulatrix 04:53
14. Lament / The Dramatic Demise of Princess Discombobulatrix 11:30
Smooth Jazz Apocalypse
By Reinier Baas
Label: Mainland Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1.
Squalor 05:57
2.
Orthodox 05:02
3.
Ballad 03:49
4.
Gregarious 04:42
5.
A World Within #16 07:01
6.
Epilogue 05:34
7.
Orthodox (reprise) 02:40
8.
Smooth Jazz Apocalypse 03:17
November Music 2014
by Henning Bolte
November Music s' Hertogenbosch November 8-9, 2014 November Music is a festival of contemporary music, new music in the broadest sense, held in the medieval town of s'-Hertogenbosch in the southeast of The Netherlands and home of painter Jheronimus Bosch (1450-1516). Besides the core of contemporary composers' music there are neighboring branches ...
