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When is a Jazz Festival (Not) a Jazz Festival?
by John Kelman
This article was first published at All About Jazz on May 20, 2011. It's becoming almost pandemic for jazz festivals around the world to be challenged for deciding to broaden their programming into areas either peripherally related to jazz... or, in some cases, away from jazz entirely. Festivals like the near-iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, ...
A Supreme Love
Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: See Discogs.com for complete track listings.
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Label: dStream
Released: 2023
Track listing: Improvisations That Speak with Admirations; Side Riding of Old Jazz Folk; The Scene of a Dues Paying Member; Here for Lol Coxhill; Here for Steve Lacy; Here for Lee Konitz, Here for Kenny Wheeler; Looped Unlooped; Double Shuffle with the Town Travellers.
Remembering Tony Oxley: Combination
by Ian Patterson
The sad news of the passing of free-spirited English drummer/percussionist Tony Oxley on December 26, 2023, is tempered by the knowledge that his was a life well lived, and his musical legacy a lasting one. As a member of Ronnie Scott's house band in the latter half of the 1960s, Yorkshireman Oxley played with some of ...
Don Thompson & Rob Piltch: Bells... Now and Then
by Pierre Giroux
Multi-instrumentalist Don Thompson and guitarist Rob Piltch are two Canadian musicians who, in 1981 and 1982, recorded an album entitled Bells for the Umbrella label. The material has been remastered and reissued as Bells...Now and Then, bookended by two new recordings of compositions by Thompson. Don Thompson has been a highly-regarded part ...
Marco Postacchini Big Band: One Finger Snap
by Angelo Leonardi
Radicata nella tradizione del mainstream orchestrale (quella di Count Basie, Gerald Wilson e Thad Jones in particolare) la big band di Marco Postacchini è un'ottima “Swing Machine" che presenta in questo disco un variegato repertorio che spazia da composizioni di Herbie Hancock ("One Finger Snap") a Steve Swallow ("Eiderdown"), si tinge di colori latini (Antonio Carlos ...
Mauro Sigura: Dunia
by Chris May
The Turin-born, Sardinia-based oud and bouzouki player and composer Mauro Sigura gave us one of the most singular albums of 2020 with Terravetro (S'ard Music). Leading an acoustic group, Sigura blended Sardinian and Levantine folk musics with North European jazz. The lineup was oud/bouzouki, piano, bass, drums and, on half the tracks, trumpet. (A review can ...
Art Lande and Sam Williams Interview
by Steven Roby
This episode features an interview with Grammy-nominated musician Art Lande and jazz saxophonist Sam Williams. We discussed tracks from their current album Portals, and the duo's upcoming show at Dazzle. Grammy-nominated Art Lande is an internationally known pianist, composer, improviser, drummer, and educator who has performed with a long list of the Who's Who ...
Steve Arguelles: Here
by Vincenzo Roggero
In che modo ci si approccia ad una registrazione di solo batteria, se sei un batterista che non crede negli assoli di batteria? Su questa domanda le note di copertina argomentano in modo brillante, lucido, esaustivo. Il musicista in questione è Steve Arguelles veterano della più vivace scena britannica, membro fondatore dei fondamentali ...
