Results for "Keith Jarret"

Josep-Manel Vega

Born: March 10, 1965

He began studying musical language and harmony with his grandfather (Josep Baiget),  classical guitar with several teachers (Jordi Belza, Mariano Capella, Guillem Pérez-Quer, William Waters, Danielle Kassner), contemporary music (Joan Munné, Xavier Prats) and flamenco (Manuel Castilla). However, it was by exploring on his own that he developed a personal musical language focused on improvisation, inspired by musicians such as Keith Jarret, Bill Frisell, Ralph Towner or Nguyên Lê.

ON A TIGHTROPE (2022 and beyond)

December 2021

by Pat Youngspiel
December 15, 2021

Johannes Luley Follow Your Heart My Sonic Temple 2021 The likes of of Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie and Kenny Wheeler are closely linked, not only musically but most of all because a majority of their recordings was released on ECM Records. They're also quite the musicians to look up ...

Meet Larry Tamanini, Jostein Gulbrandsen, Joe Finn, Jon Hemmersam

by Dom Minasi
December 11, 2021

Welcome back to Guitarists Rendezvous. This is the third installment in a series that introduces you to emerging or established guitarists who fly just under the radar of public recognition. Each fielded the same questions and recommended a video. Larry Tamanini Meet Larry Tamanini who hails from jny: Philadelphia. He is a steady fixture ...

Trøen Arnesen Quartet: Tread Lightly

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 16, 2021

The line that separates borrowing from stealing can be quite narrow in music, and even after judges rule on the matter, one may remain torn between the one and the other. It continues to be a very common issue in the mainstream pop world as the recent ruling against pop stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams ...

Bill Cunliffe: Always Doing It The Right Way

by Jim Worsley
March 18, 2021

Most notably a jazz pianist, it comes as more than a surprise that Bill Cunliffe was not in the same orbit as jazz until he was in college. With the sheer volume of top shelf jazz he has written and recorded since, he would seem to have made up for any lost time. That time, those ...

Yuri Honing: Sounds And Vision

by Ian Patterson
June 5, 2020

Strange that such a gruesome tale, drowning in blood, could have inspired so much great art. So it goes with Bluebeard, the seventeenth century French folktale, which continues to inspire artists to this day. Dutch saxophonist/composer Yuri Honing's Bluebeard (2020)-- his fourth album on Challenge Records with his acoustic quartet--is not just a highly personal take ...

Dan McCarthy's Epoch and City Abstract on Origin Records

by Friedrich Kunzmann
September 30, 2019

Canadian vibesman Dan McCarthy has come a long way since the release of his already very accomplished debut album Interwords (self produced) in 2006. Since moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2004, McCarthy has been able to collaborate with some of the city's finest improvisors, such as Steve Swallow or Ben Monder who are also the ...

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Matteo Bortone

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 8, 2016

01. Tigran Hamasyan -Luys I Luso (ECM -2015). Una delle ultime uscite che preferisco; per la scrittura, ma soprattutto per l'atmosfera cupa che mi tiene inchiodato. Molto poetico e ipnotico. 02. Keith Jarret -Life Between the Exit Signs (Vortex -1967). A mio avviso il miglior album di Jarrett, il suo primo ...

Shai Maestro: Music as a journey of being a human

by Urszula Orczyk
October 20, 2014

This article was originally published in the Polish magazine JazzPRESS Shai Maestro, talented 27-year-old pianist and a composer, has earned his spurs being a part of Avishai Cohen's band. Now he has a band of his own--Shai Maestro Trio (although he says it's not “his" band but “theirs": Shai, Jorge Roeder and Ziv Ravitz). ...

Claudio Filippini: Facing North

by Robin Arends
February 4, 2014

Pianist Claudio Filippini, born in Pescara in 1982, is one of the bright young stars of Italian jazz. With his album The Enchanted Garden (CAM Jazz, 2011) he was hailed as the new “wonder boy" of Italian jazz. Now he is regarded as a pianist/composer of international stature, with his album Facing North (CAM Jazz, 2013) ...