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Fred Hersch: Alone At The Vanguard
by Wilbert Sostre
Alone at The Vanguard is pianist Fred Hersch's first solo performance at New York's Village Vanguard, after his serious illness and coma in 2008. The release was recorded during the final set on the last night of his six-day run in 2010, and the solo recital format gives the disc an intimate, almost classical music feel, ...
Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm - Portrait Of A Jazz Legend
by Jack Bowers
Stan KentonArtistry In Rhythm: Portrait Of A Jazz LegendJazzed Media2011 I thought that [Stan] was an echo of life itself: that life is precious, life is exquisite, and life is magnificent. He lived it, and his legacy points to some of those values. Whether we are able ...
Lee Konitz, poeta dell'ultravioletto
by AAJ Italy Staff
Di Lee Konitz, che alla fine del 2007 ha superato la soglia degli ottant'anni, negli ultimi mesi/anni non si parla più molto: un po' perché la sua lunghissima e attivissima carriera ha forse subito un comprensibile rallentamento, un po' perché la sua grandezza e originalità nel panorama jazzistico vengono date per acquisite dagli addetti ai lavori. ...
Stephan Crump & Steve Lehman: Kaleidoscope & Collage
by Nic Jones
Bassist Stephan Crump and alto saxophonist Steve Lehman are both musicians with little time for musical boundaries. Their CVs confirm this, but what they perhaps don't throw up so readily is that they are both closer to the future of this music than many of their contemporaries. In recent years, Crump has been an active member ...
Jazz vs Racism
by Greg Thomas
Jazz saved me from becoming a racist.Back in the early to mid-1980s, while attending Hamilton College in central New York, I learned details about the transatlantic slave trade that sickened and angered me. I read about the history of the abolitionist movement in the 1800s, and the civil rights movements of last century, as ...
Creative Music Studio Book Reissue to Coincide with CMS Day at Columbia
Creative Music Studio Book Reissue to Coincide with CMS Day at Columbia The book that tells the story of the legendary Creative Music StudioMusic Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York (Ann Arbor: Arborville Publishing, ISBN 0-9650438-4-3)is being reissued. The reissue coincides with events in 2011 designed to help cement the legacy ...
Lee Konitz – Piero Frassi Trio: Konitz Plays Konitz – Chapter 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'epoca di questa incisione (11 settembre 2008), Lee Konitz viaggiava spedito verso gli ottantuno (compiuti il successivo 13 ottobre), ma miracolosamente (e non per questo sorprendentemente: ci siamo felicemente abituati) ancora in possesso del suo inconfondibile suono, rilassato e tuttavia costantemente innervato da fremiti intestini, mai supino, con la bellissima cavata, chiara quanto in qualche modo ...
Fred Hersch: Alone At The Vanguard
by Dan Bilawsky
Creating an album title--Alone At The Vanguard--that reads as a double entendre and an oxymoron--whether intentional or not--is a great achievement, but not nearly as impressive as the music that pianist Fred Hersch presents on this live recording. While the Vanguard in the title is a direct reference to the hallowed basement club in New York ...
Either/Orchestra: New York City, February 11, 2011
by Daniel Lehner
Either/OrchestraLe Poisson Rouge New York, NYFebruary 11, 2011 If you graduated school to work for a law firm or a contracting company, your reunion would probably not be a raucous or joyous event. However, if you and your classmates went on to be the employees of Lee Konitz, Lester Bowie, ...
Fred Hersch: Alone at the Village Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Fred Hersch almost cashed out back in 2008, when he fell ill with AIDs-related complications and spent seven weeks in a coma. The recovery was arduous, the resumption of his wide-ranging and top-level musical artistry uncertain--an uncertainty erased without a trace by Whirl (Palmetto Records, 2010), a trio set so assured, vibrant and beautiful that ...


