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Clarence Becton: Straight Ahead Into Freedom
by Barbara Ina Frenz
Clarence Becton is a musicians' musician—meaning, someone well-known in musician circles. He belongs to the generation of American jazz heroes who grew up under economically and socially difficult circumstances, and for that very reason, succeeded in gaining a comprehensive education, emancipating himself, and embodying the history of jazz music by directly learning from and working with ...
Matthew Shipp: Let's Do Lunch!
by Yuko Otomo
When Matthew Shipp asked me to design the cover art for his Points album (Silkheart Records, 1992), I showed him works from the on-going drawing study I was engaged in. He picked one graphite drawing and said, “Wow! This is exactly what's happening inside my mind when I play the piano!" Here, we talk ...
Francesco Massaro: Bestiario marino
by Neri Pollastri
"Coordinamento di autoproduzioni per la socializzazione di musica inedita in nuovi contesti di fruizione": così si definiscono nel loro sito internet i pugliesi Desuonatori, che qui realizzano un altro eccellente lavoro, stavolta a nome del polistrumentista Francesco Massaro. Alla testa di un quartetto in equilibrio tra improvvisazione, contemporanea e jazz, ispirato da oniriche visioni ...
Carol Liebowitz / Nick Lyons: First Set
by Roger Farbey
The first seven tracks presented here emanate from a series of live concerts performed in 2012, the final number “Another Time" being studio-recorded in 2007. The live concerts took place in front of an audience in the loft of Connie Crothers under whom Carol Liebowitz studied piano. This improvisational pair recalls the duo performances ...
Joshua Breakstone/The Cello Quartet: 88
by Mark Sullivan
Veteran guitarist Joshua Breakstone pays tribute to some of his favorite pianist/composers here. He tells a story about a fellow Berklee student (a saxophonist) who asked legendary saxophonist Sonny Stitt if he could sit in. Stitt shut him down with the question “how many keys on a saxophone?" The novice couldn't answer--there are 23--but everyone knows ...
John Coltrane Birthday Celebration: Harnessing The Coltrane Effect
by Paul Rauch
Richard Cole Group Tula's Jazz Club Seattle WA September 23, 2016 The calendar read September 23, 2016, the 90th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane, and as in many cities in America, and around the world, the music of this master innovator is being celebrated in performance, ...
Abdullah Ibrahim in Stunning Recital at the 30th Annual Oslo Jazz Festival
by John Ephland
Abdullah Ibrahim Universitetets Aula 30th Annual Oslo Jazz Festival Oslo, Norway August 16, 2016 Alternately rhapsodic and episodic, pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim filled the airs of the 500- seat Universitetets Aula with melody upon melody, all of it improvised yet seemingly composed. The occasion was the ...
Giorgio Albanese Quintet + Orchestra: Vento di Maestrale
by Neri Pollastri
Fisarmonicista eclettico dalle molte collaborazioni e compositore coraggioso, Giorgio Albanese presenta qui un lavoro piuttosto originale, con un organico di grande spicco, selezionato -tutti sono usi alla ricerca musicale più ardita -e cangiante -quattro brani sono in quintetto, uno in solo e l'ultimo si avvale di un'orchestra. Le composizioni fondono tradizioni e stilemi diversi, ...
Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2015
by Jack Bowers
In 1975, Howard University, a bulwark of higher education in our nation's capital since 1867, formed its first Jazz Ensemble and named a young trumpeter / educator, Fred Irby III, as director. One year later, Irby ushered the ensemble into a recording studio to verify its prowess, a tradition that has continued uninterrupted for forty years. ...
Blue Note On Blu-Ray
by Mark Werlin
Jazz music is best appreciated with “big ears" and an open mind. Just as exposure to new music casts older, familiar works in a different light, newer formats can expand a listener's perspective on the strengths and limitations of the original recordings. SACDs, Blu-Ray discs and hi-res downloads accurately represent the affective details of ...
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