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Overseas IV

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Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. They Will Hear the Drums - and They Will Answer; 02. White Amour; 03. 1786; 04. Silkweavers'Song; 05. Men on Horses; 06. Robbers and Fairground Folk; 07. Michelle Marie; 08. Nineteen to the Dozen; 09. Det Kalde Havet; 10. Youth Hopeth All Things, Believeth All Things. Tutte le composizioni sono di Eivind Opsvik.

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Enjoy Jazz Festival: Heidelberg / Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 30-November 7, 2012

by John Kelman
November 26, 2012

2012 Enjoy Jazz FestivalHeidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 30-November 7, 2012After a week in northern Sweden covering the 2012 Umeå Jazz Festival--where the were days shortening and the temperature dropping--moving south to Heidelberg, Germany was a welcome respite from the oncoming onslaught of winter that's also approaching back home in Canada. For this year's coverage of ...

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The Black Butterflies: Rainbows for Ramon

by Matt Marshall
July 4, 2012

The Black ButterfliesRainbows for RamonSelf Produced2012Judging by its title alone, some might expect Rainbows for Ramon, the sophomore release by The Black Butterflies, to be a flighty affair that trills off into flowery musical fields fit for skipping unicorns. It is not this (thankfully), even though joyful melodic ...

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Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 4-8: June 21-23, 2012

by John Kelman
July 1, 2012

Days 1-3 | Days 4-8 TD Ottawa International Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 21-Jul 1, 2012With a total of five main venues--the main stage at Confederation Park, the Studio and Fourth Stage in the National Arts Centre, the OLG Stage tent across the street from Confederation Park at City ...

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Eivind Opsvik: Overseas IV

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 25, 2012

Overseas è il nome della band che il contrabbassista e compositore norvegese Eivind Opsvik fondò nel lontano 2002. Nel corso di dieci anni e quattro pubblicazioni Opsvik ha dato ampia testimonianza della sua evoluzione artistica e della sua capacità di coagulare attorno a questo progetto prestigiosi esponenti della scena prog-jazz newyorchese, esaltandone peculiarità non sempre esibite ...

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Victoriaville 2012

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 4, 2012

Festival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, CanadaMay 17-20, 2012There are many ways to weigh a music festival, but one method that sets a fairly reasonable standard for excellence is whether or not there was at least one point that elicited feelings of good fortune. Not just if it was enjoyable or if highly respected ...

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The Black Butterflies: Rainbows For Ramon

Read "Rainbows For Ramon" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 4, 2012

The Black Butterflies' debut, 1 De Mayo (Self Produced, 2010), introduced an ensemble that found beauty in brashness and an all-inclusive recipe for musical creation. The group found its way by liberally mixing free jazz, Latin music, blues, John Coltrane-like spiritualism, primal urges and strong rhythmic elements, giving their music a sense of raw immediacy that's ...

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Wayne Krantz: Howie 61

by John Kelman
May 10, 2012

Wayne KrantzHowie 61Abstract Logix2012He's long been a musician's musician and a guitarist's guitarist--there's a reason Steely Dan's Donald Fagen recruited him for his last solo disc, Morph the Cat (Reprise, 2006), and saxophonists David Binney and Chris Potter called him up for Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011) and Underground ...

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John Zorn: Gnostic Preludes

by Nenad Georgievski
April 20, 2012

John ZornGnostic PreludesTzadik2012 Composer John Zorn is a man of many projects, genres and styles. When once asked about styles, in Option, he replied “I'm not afraid of styles; I like them all." He also has a short attention span and because of that his music is ...

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Bill Frisell and Bill Morrison: Columbus, OH, March 31, 2012

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2012

Bill Frisell TrioThe Great FloodThurber Theater, Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OHMarch 31, 2012Sometimes you can hear a song lyric for years, but it is not until it is sung just so that it hits home. Bill Frisell's Trio presented an original soundtrack to a film by director Bill Morrison about ...