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Samuel Blaser Quartet: As the Sea

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by Dave Wayne

Since bursting on the the international jazz scene in the mid-2000s, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser has established himself as one of his instrument's foremost practitioners. His playing combines the precision and detail of a top-flight classical instrumentalist with the unfettered, emotionally direct and rhythmically rich approach that characterizes the best jazz players. Blaser--still in his early ...

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Article: Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower vol. 3

Read "Tower vol. 3" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Each one of French guitarist Marc Ducret's Tower series albums has featured different lineups and instrumentation. With Tower vol. 3, he employs a three-man trombone attack with percussion and piano performers; as stated in the album liners, the band “plays comments on the music already played." Therefore, the musicians redevelop and dissect previous works appearing on ...

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Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013

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by Henning Bolte

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013Copenhagen, DenmarkJuly 12-14, 2013The annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with more than a thousand concerts during ten days--spread over more than hundred places and stages across the city--is a special, unique affair. Like other big jazz festivals, it also has its headliners--big names, mostly American, like Terence Blanchard, Richard Bona, Chick ...

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Article: Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 3

Read "Tower, Vol. 3" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

French guitarist Marc Ducret's new sextet, known also as the Real Thing #3 band, was supposed to mark the end of his Tower cycle of compositions, now spread over four discs and at least five projects: a solo guitar, quartet, quintet and the as-yet- unrecorded 12-member Tower-Bridge orchestra. This project was initiated by Ducret in 2008 ...

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Article: Album Review

AVC: Busk

Read "Busk" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The UK label Babel has been nurturing unique talent for the better part of twenty years, judiciously releasing only about a half-dozen albums in a given year. Many of their artists play on the fringes of jazz and some go way beyond the pale. AVC are hardly outliers but neither is the quintet a predictable, formulaic ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzdor Berlin 2013: Berlin, Germany, June 5-8, 2013

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by Henning Bolte

Jazzdor Berlin 2013Kesselhaus in der KulturbrauereiBerlin, GermanyJune 5-8, 2013The Jazzdor festival is part of Berlin's still highly attractive cultural and artistic climate of the post- wall era. The seventh edition of this four-day festival took place during the first week of June, 2013 at the Kesselhaus of a former brewery in ...

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Matthieu Metzger: SelfCooking

Read "SelfCooking" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

SelfCooking offers a glimpse into the busy mind of a restless musician, French saxophonist Matthieu Metzger. Deep thoughts about weird compositions that have lurked in his memory, accidental explorations while playing with the extended family of saxophones and the joyful cooking of sonic textures, spiced with electronic treatments, some are his own design of real time ...

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Article: Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: As The Sea

Read "As The Sea" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Allocating his time between Europe and New York City, Swiss-born trombone maestro Samuel Blaser has recorded for prominent record labels, specializing in the outside jazz realm. Thus, As The Sea is the quartet's follow-up to Boundless (hatOLOGY, 2011). Blaser's recognizable plight to lay out nouveau frontiers remains a continuum. No wonder why he's garnered the assistance ...

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Article: Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: As The Sea

Read "As The Sea" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The whole of some musical outfits is greater than its separate parts. The Berlin-based, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's Quartet is one of these outfits, comprised of resourceful musicians with strong personalities, distinct approaches that together complement the strengths of this band but also pushes it into newer terrains. Blaser is conservatory trained and ...

Article: Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 4

Read "Tower, Vol. 4" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Un uomo e la sua chitarra. In completa solitudine, dividendosi tra la cinquecentesca Civitella Ranieri, nel cuore antico dell'Umbria, e la cucina del sassofonista Matthieu Metzger, Marc Ducret approda al quarto capitolo del progetto Tower. A documentarlo, come i precedenti, la rediviva Ayler Records, etichetta con doppio passaporto: svedese di nascita, francese d'adozione. Quarto capitolo che, ...


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