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Kendrick Scott: Making Walls into Bridges
by Rob Garratt
Kendrick Scott authored one of the most compelling jazz releases of last year with A Wall Becomes a Bridge (Blue Note, 2019), a nuanced meditation on identity, history and prejudice, shepherded under the direction of producer and former band mate Derrick Hodge. Pairing gorgeous, searching improvisatory canvases with break beat interludes and samples from guest DJ ...
2020 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide
by Ludovico Granvassu
Believe it or not, it is that time of the year again! The holidaze are barely over and a new edition of Winter JazzFest is upon us. Knowing a jazz marathon is the perfect antidote to the holiday shopping and social marathons, producer Brice Rosenbloom and his cohorts have put together a program of gargantuan proportions. ...
Antoine Berjeaut: Moving Cities
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Moving Cities nasce dalla collaborazione tra il trombettista francese Antoine Berjeaut e il batterista e produttore chicagoano Makaya McCraven, entrambi esponenti di “rottura" e fra i più attivi delle proprie scene jazz di riferimento: Berjeaut ha portato una ventata d'aria fresca nel jazz di Francia grazie a una serie di progetti collettivi molto innovativi e a ...
People Are Fragile
Label: Flood Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: I Alone Love The Unseen In You; If I Knew Who I was; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; When You
Break; Shake It All Down; Daddy's Gonna Die Soon; Deep River; My Man's Gone Now; The Feeling Of Heavy;
Pictures In The Atmosphere; Did Anyone Ever Sow You A Lie?; Recall.
Junius Paul: Ism
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Il bassista e contrabbassista Junius Paul rappresenta dagli inizi degli anni 2000 l'anima ritmica della scena jazz di Chicago: già collaboratore di Makaya McCraven in Universal Beings (International Anthem, 2018), uno dei dischi jazz rivelazione degli ultimi anni, Paul è membro fra i più attivi della Art Ensemble of Chicago e dell'Association for the Advancement of ...
EFG London Jazz Festival 2019
by Luke Seabright
A truly great event that advocates for an art form like jazz will celebrate both its history and its younger incarnations. It can breathe life into the music's traditions while exposing new ways forward. The EFG London Jazz Festival, through its vast programme of concerts in venues across the city, succeeds in doing just that. This ...
Brandee Younger: Soul Awakening
by Serena Antinucci
Sembrerebbe quasi che Brandee Younger abbia preferito ripetitive udienze private con la luna, prima di decidere se liberare il suo ultimo lavoro discografico. Forse, in questi dialoghi confidenziali, la luna le avrà svelato i misteri antichi del mondo, della musica, donandole immagini uniche piene di incanto. A queste è rimasta aggrappata per lunghi sette anni, prima ...
Nice Jazz Festival 2019
by Martin McFie
Nice Jazz Festival Théâtre de Verdure Nice, France July 16-20, 2019 Sebastien Vidal, the artistic director of the Nice Jazz Festival, expressed his goals for 2019 as diversity and inclusivity. The Festival takes place in the center of the city, near a tram line station. They welcomed forty ...
North Sea Jazz Festival 2019
by Ljubinko Zivkovic
North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands July 12-14, 2019 For a while now, jazz festivals have lost their exclusivity and being a musical source for just jazz fans or those who wanted to get involved in the scene. More commercial artists from other musical genres have actually become a ...
2019 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
by C. Andrew Hovan
2019 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Pittsburgh, PA June 20-23, 2019 Now in its ninth year, the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival continues to grow and prosper as one of the country's best jazz festivals. Tied to the efforts of the city's August Wilson African American Cultural Center, the festival continues to prosper under ...
