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Ellery Eskelin - Andrea Parkins - Jim Black

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 18, 2007

Area Sismica - Forlì - 17.11.2007 Il trio Eskelin-Parkins-Black è un gruppo longevo: attivo dal 1994, ha accumulato una nutrita discografia, una ricca esperienza live e l'affiatamento proprio delle formazioni mature. Ed è infatti considerata una delle realtà più significative del nuovo jazz contemporaneo. Ellery Eskelin è indubbiamente il cuore e la mente creativa del gruppo: ...

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Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, NYC

by Budd Kopman
December 17, 2007

The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New York November 20, 2007 This year's Thanksgiving week stand at the Jazz Standard, the third year in a row for the band, started off with what can only be described as a magical experience. The club ...

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Barry Guy - Maya Homburger - Maddalena Crippa

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 17, 2007

Parma Jazz Frontiere Palazzo Sanvitale - Parma - 09.12.2007 Ha avuto un'importanza relativa conoscere l'ordine e gli autori dei brani, correttamente riportati dal programma di sala: partiti da “Veni Creator Spiritus", un inno pentecostale attribuito a Rabano Mauro, vissuto tra l’ottavo e il nono secolo, e passati a Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, compositore boemo della ...

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Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije - X edizione

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 17, 2007

La Grave (Francia), 19-29 Luglio 2007 “Du Spirituel dans la musique": questo titolo kandinskijano sintentizza il motivo conduttore della rassegna che da dieci anni si svolge tra le montagne del Delfinato, care a Olivier Messiaen. Il tema della relazione fra trascedenza e musica è stato sviluppato, grazie allo sforzo organizzativo di Gaëtan Puaud, nell’arco di undici ...

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Kneebody Brings Fresh Sound to San Francisco Jazz Fest 2007

by Aaron Nicholas Arabian
December 16, 2007

Kneebody 25th Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California November 7, 2007 While yesterday's jazz greats had swing, bebop, and hard bop forming the core of their influences, the young improvisers of today have been brought up with a whole spectrum of musical influences, ...

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Caetano Veloso in Ann Arbor, Michigan

by C. Andrew Hovan
December 16, 2007

Caetano Veloso University of Michigan's Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor, Michigan November 9, 2007 Although the University Musical Society based at the University of Michigan has always had somewhat broad tastes in music, making each season a delightful potpourri of genre mixing, recently they have delved heartily into Brazilian music, ...

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Azar Lawrence: Cookin' at the Jazz Bakery

by Chuck Koton
December 15, 2007

Azar Lawrence QuartetJazz BakeryCulver City, CANovember 25, 2007 For those jazz fans who have been wondering where Azar Lawrence has been since the late 70s, there is good news: He is alive and well and burnin' up clubs in the L.A. area again. After a too long detour out of ...

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John Abercrombie Organ Trio at The Jazz Standard, NYC

by Budd Kopman
December 14, 2007

The John Abercrombie Organ TrioThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkNovember 15, 2007 If one did not know who John Abercrombie was, the natural thing would be to assume by the name of the group that he was an organist leading a trio with a drummer and a guitarist or a ...

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Billy Bang & The Aftermath Band

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 13, 2007

Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 02.12.2007 Strano concerto, questo di Billy Bang. Da un personaggio come lui, frequentatore abituale di una certa avanguardia, ti aspetteresti qualcosa di speciale. Trattandosi poi di un progetto incentrato sul Vietnam, ovvero una delle grandi ferite, mai rimarginate, della società americana, ecco che le aspettative si alzano ulteriormente. ...

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Maria Schneider Flies into Boston: "Look, Up in the Sky! It's an Orchestra!"

by Jason West
December 12, 2007

Maria Schneider Orchestra Berklee Performance HallBoston, Massachusetts November 17, 2007 The power of Maria Schneider's musical imagery calls to mind a variation on a superhero movie tagline: “You will believe a band can fly." And fly they did on what was their Boston debut, with the orchestra's diminutive blonde bandleader, ...