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Michael Gibbs & The NDR Big Band: Play a Bill Frisell Set List / In My View
by Ian Patterson
Though his recording career dates back to the early 1960s, Zimbabwe-born arranger, composer and musician Michael Gibbs hasn't always been as prolific as a leader as he might have been. Five albums in the first half the 1970 represented his most industrious period of creativity, as teaching, television and film work and arranging for a surprisingly ...
Michael Janisch: The Whirlwind, Paradigm Shift and London's Label of the Moment
by Phil Barnes
However you look at it Michael Janisch is an extraordinarily driven, highly motivated, success story. Not only has he been the founder, owner and force behind London's wonderful Whirlwind Recordings for the last five years, but he has also just released one of 2015's finest albums in the adventurous 2CD set Paradigm Shift. It's no coincidence ...
Art Pepper: Art Pepper Live at Fat Tuesday’s
by C. Michael Bailey
The discovery and release of Art Pepper Live at Fat Tuesday's is a surprising and welcome event that has some precedence in jazz reportage. “Art Pepper, 1926-1982" is a much anthologized obituary on Pepper by jazz writer Gary Giddins, originally published in his book Rhythm-a-ning (Da Capo Press, 1985) written shortly after the saxophonist's death. In ...
Renato Sellani: Glad There Is You
by Neri Pollastri
Il primo novembre del 2014 se ne andava a Milano, a ottantotto anni, Renato Sellani, decano dei musicisti jazz italiani. Nato a Senigallia ma residente a Milano da oltre mezzo secolo, Sellani aveva collaborato con centinaia di musicisti, tra i quali alcune icone del jazz come Dizzy Gillespie e Lee Konitz. C'è chi sostiene che, alla ...
Marike van Dijk: The Stereography Project
by Angelo Leonardi
Il fermento creativo in ambito orchestrale che caratterizza oggi la scena statunitense si arricchisce di una talentosa giovane sassofonista e compositrice olandese: Marike van Dijk. Trasferitasi a New York nel 2008 dopo un lunga pratica al sax contralto (dall'età di 11 anni) e un master degree al conservatorio di Rotterdam, la van Dijk ha ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Konitz
All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Konitz's birthday today! Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form ...
Yago Vazquez/Scott Lee/Jeff Hirshfield: Stream
by Karl Ackermann
These are good times for piano trios. Emerging groups like those of Pier Luigi Salami and Romain Collin, as well as the more establish work of Stefano Battaglia, have contributed to a recent spate of highly creative and renewed approaches to the format. Add to that list pianist Yago Vazquez, bassist Scott Lee, and drummer Jeff ...
Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde
by Mark F. Turner
In Ye Olde, trombonist Jacob Garchik uses progressive rock, jazz and plenty of imagination to create what might be a mashup of Game of Thrones and 21st century music. He's performed with Henry Threadgill and Lee Konitz and produced the outstanding 2012 solo project The Heavens: The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album (Yestereve Records). These proclivities continue ...
Nicola Fazzini Minimum Sax: Random2
by Alberto Bazzurro
Poco più di mezz'ora di sax alto solo, suddivisa in quarantasei microtracce a loro volta ricondotte a dieci gruppi primari (vedi elenco dei brani in calce): questa la struttura del primo lavoro solitario di Nicola Fazzini, milanese di nascita ma trevigiano d'adozione (e in mezzo discreto giramondo), il quale parla di “composizioni originali nate da un ...
"Doors: Chicago Storylines," New CD By Alto Saxophonist/Composer Caroline Davis, Due Nov. 6
Following the release of her much-praised 2012 debut, Live Work & Play, alto saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis relocated from Chicago to New York City and got to work on an ambitious project that had been germinating for seven years. To honor her eight-year residency in Chicago, she combines spoken stories and original compositions on her ...
