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Wayne Shorter Quartet: Toronto, February 12, 2011
by Alain Londes
Wayne Shorter QuartetMassey HallToronto, CanadaFebruary 12, 2011 During a recent NPR interview with Michelle Mercer, the author of Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter (Tarcher, 2004) talked about how the saxophonist is still capable of keeping people interested through his continuous playing and writing. His quartet has not recorded ...
Giora Feidman a Bologna
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chiesa di Santa Cristina - Bologna - 09.02.2011 A volte capita che rassegne di musica classica o contemporanea permettano di ascoltare protagonisti del jazz, o vicini al jazz, che ben raramente vengono invitati dalle manifestazioni jazzistiche. È il caso di “Contrasti - il clarinetto da Mozart al jazz," che nell'ex chiesa di Santa Cristina a Bologna ...
Polar Jazz: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, February 3-7, 2011
by John Kelman
Polar Jazz / Arctic MoodLongyearbyen,Svalbard, Norway February 3-7, 2011 Flying into Longyearbyen is a surreal experience. It's a two-day trip from North America--one day to get to Oslo, Norway, and the second to make the final trek above the Arctic Circle to the islands of Svalbard, about halfway between the ...
Lest We Forget: Remembering Myrna Lake at the Lenox Lounge 2006
by Daniel Kassell
In his All About Jazz review of Yesterdays (Jazzing Music, 2008), Samuel Chell described singer Myrna Lake's recording as “an exploration of the power of memory itself, a musical narrative yielding the discovery that memory, like the songs that are eventually designated standards, is a moment in the present, an instant distinguished by heightened awareness ...
Peter Nero/Philly POPS, with Ann Hampton Callaway, February 6, 2011
by Lewis J Whittington
Peter Nero and the Philly POPS with Ann Hampton CallawaySingin' & Swingin'Kimmel Center Verizon HallPhiladelphiaFebruary 6, 2011 Peter Nero is so charming a bandleader for the Philly POPS that he could easily get away with phoning the music in, but with the pianist/conductor, that is never the case. The ...
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
by AAJ Italy Staff
Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 30.01.2011 E' sempre un piacere ascoltare la musica di Abdullah Ibrahim. Il suo jazz così gioioso e solare. Semplice, verrebbe da dire. Non fosse che questo termine viene spesso frainteso, e scambiato per banalità. Ma la semplicità della musica del pianista sudafricano non ammette fraintendimenti. E' delicatezza, pura ...
Steve Lehman Octet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Metastasio Jazz Teatro Metastasio - Prato - 24.01.2011 Attesissimo per l'unica data italiana del suo tour europeo, l'ottetto dell'altosassofonista newyorchese Steve Lehman ha aperto l'edizione 2011 della rassegna pratese Metastasio Jazz, purtroppo tartassata dai tagli alla cultura e perciò ridotta quest'anno a tre sole date. Lehman, trentatre anni, è uno dei compositori emergenti della scena jazzistica ...
Piers Faccini, New York City, February 9, 2011
by Ernest Barteldes
Piers FacciniLiving RoomFebruary 9, 2011New York, NYOn the opening date of his February 2011 residence at New York City's Living Room, British singer-songwriter Piers Faccini featured mostly music from his recent release, Two Grains of Sand (tôt Ou tard, 2009), a record he describes on his webpage as inspired “by the ...
Danilo Rea - Paolo Fresu
by AAJ Italy Staff
Auditorium Parco della Musica - Roma - 06.02.2011 La domenica sera Roma sembra quasi una città normale. Al ristorante del Parco della Musica la gente per passare tra i tavoli ti chiede anche «permesso». Gesti normali che durante la settimana ti puoi anche dimenticare. Sarà perché sono tutti lì a pregustare un concerto che promette delizie. ...
Thailand International Jazz Conference, January 28-30, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Thailand International Jazz Conference Mahidol University School of Music Bangkok, Thailand January 28-30, 2011It's almost impossible to go anywhere in Thailand without hearing music at all hours: people sing for their own enjoyment as they go about their daily business, displaying a lack of inhibition generally absent in ...
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