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Lithuanian Vocalist Andre Pabarčiūtė Launches New Website
Lithuanian vocalist, composer and pianist Andre Pabarciute is one of the most original artists representing her country's creative music scene today. Her performances have been characterized as “works of art that pulsate with energy, intuition and improvisation." Today marks the launch of her new website at andre.lt. Created by developer and Design4Music.org founder Max Micheliov, Andrė ...
Roberta Piket: Making a Difference
by Victor L. Schermer
Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. She thinks hard when she ...
Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite: 5000 Poems
by John Sharpe
There was a time when the addition of a chordal instrument such as piano to a horn-led free jazz quartet would have been viewed as a nod to the mainstream. But not the case now and especially not when the pianist in question is John Blum and the group is trombonist Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite. ...
Undivided: Exploring Consciousness in Ukraine
by Alex Martynov
UndividedPhilarmony Concert HallLviv, UkraineOctober 1, 2009 It's been a long time since head-solo-head was the only possible structure for jazz improvisation. Jazz symphonies, jazz operas, unprepared hour-long improvisations, recorded as well as performed live, frequently depart from the conventional formulaic pattern. Another popular form is the suite. The ...
Five Spot: Poltva
by Alex Martynov
There is not a great number of releases from the Ukrainian free-jazz scene. Admittedly, this scene is not very crowded with performers; still, it has something worth documenting. One of the most interesting albums of 2008 is from the international quintet Five Spot and Poltva. The name of the album is symbolic: Poltva is the name ...
Klaus Kugel/Mark Tokar: Free Jazz, Ukraine Style
by Alex Martynov
Two days after their own concert at the biggest ten-day-long Ukrainian jazz festival, Jazz Bezz 2008, I had a chance to talk with Ukrainian bassist Mark Tokar and German drummer Klaus Kugel at an informal setting. Their group with Lithuanian saxophonist Petras Vysniauskas already has some history behind it but only recently was christened Buchkys (which ...
