Results for "Lucas Niggli"

Lucas Niggli

Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard, Lucas Niggli: Lawns

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 19, 2026

Since Carla Bley's passing in 2023, the growing fascination with her songbook--which had already been steadily building for years--has increased exponentially, as more and more musicians turn to her unique blend of melodic clarity and emotional ambiguity. And so, by now, pieces such as “Ida Lupino" and “Lawns" have cemented their place in the pantheon of ...

Javon Jackson, Luciano Biondini, Naïssam Jalal, Florian Pellissier & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 16, 2026

Recent and new releases in a playlist that crosses borders--whether cultural or musical--with a special focus on jazz renditions of popular music (from Dylan to Radiohead to Pavement).Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Florian Pellissier Quintet “The Movie Critic" Pacifiques Biches (Hot Casa) 0:16 ...

all this this here

By Barry Guy

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2023
Track listing: Comment Dire; Waiting; Time Thing; Lysandra; Brief Dream; And Two Haiku; Time Thing 2; What Is The Word.

Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band: all this this here

by John Sharpe
October 17, 2023

Bassist and composer Barry Guy combines a number of his passions on All This This Here in a stunning act of synthesis. For the third major work for his Blue Shroud Band, following its eponymous debut (Intakt, 2016) and Odes And Meditations For Cecil Taylor (Not Two, 2018), Guy sets to music Nobel winning playwright Samuel ...

Jacques Demierre: The Hills Shout

by John Eyles
June 20, 2023

Swiss pianist Jacques Demierre has a relatively small recording history considering that it dates back to June 1984. Along the way, it includes collaborations with such luminaries as Cyril Bondi, Sylvie Corvoisier, d'incise, Barry Guy, Insub Meta Orchestra, Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, Lucas Niggli, and Barre Phillips, in such fine recordings as Brainforest (Intakt, 2006) by ...

Still Storm

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Weinende Gletscher; Singing no Song; Saltwatermelons; Behind the Mist; The Valley Beyond; Dark Desire; Shall We? ; Jungle Juggle; Auf Socken; Critical Mass; Still Storm; High Moon; Il tempo sospeso; Bakossi Bird; Ozone Drone; Nebelblüten.

Matthias Loibner, Lucas Niggli: Still Storm

by Mark Corroto
August 27, 2022

If Scottish pop singer Donavan is your only reference to the term “hurdy-gurdy," as in his 1968 hit “Hurdy Gurdy Man," welcome to this extraordinary device for improvisation. This medieval hand-cranked string instrument, which also has keys, is a kind of magic buzzing drone box which is part bagpipes, part violin and part sitar. The Austrian ...

Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige 2022

by Libero Farnè
July 11, 2022

Bolzano e provincia Varie sedi 24.6--3.7.2022 Quarant'anni di vita non sono pochi per un festival. Questo è il traguardo raggiunto dal Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige, che vede anche concludersi la solerte direzione artistica di Klaus Widmann, iniziata diciotto anni fa affiancando, poi subentrando a Nicola Ciardi, il fondatore della manifestazione ...

London Jazz Composers Orchestra 50 Year Anniversary

by John Sharpe
March 26, 2020

London Jazz Composers Orchestra Alchemia and Manggha Museum Krakow, Poland March 6-8, 2020 Intro Fifty years and counting. One of the most important larger bands in European jazz, The London Jazz Composers Orchestra celebrated its golden anniversary over three days in Krakow which culminated in a triumphant performance of “Harmos." ...