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News: Festival

Latviaʼs Rigas Ritmi Festival 2012 Now Brings Jazz To The Baltics Year Round

Latviaʼs  Rigas Ritmi Festival 2012 Now Brings Jazz To The Baltics Year Round

STARTING IN APRIL WITH AN EXQUISITE LINE UP OF INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS SPRING SEASON: April 26 - 28, 2012 SUMMER SEASON: July 4 – July 7, 2012 WINTER SEASON: December 1 - 9, 2012 New York, NY: Rigas Ritmi (“Rigas Rhythms“), the annual jazz festival in Riga, Latvia, is proud to announce the ...

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Article: Live Review

Marc Ducret: Helsinki, Finland, January 29, 2012

Read "Marc Ducret: Helsinki, Finland, January 29, 2012" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Marc Ducret SoloMalmintaloHelsinki, FinlandJaunary 29, 2012 A solo performance is by definition an intense experience, and when the musician is committed to a style which is itself close to impenetrable the result can be bewildering; in this case a performance is bound only by the resourcefulness of the audience.

Article: Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 2

Read "Tower, Vol. 2" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nel primo volume di questa serie, il chitarrista francese Marc Ducret aveva posto le premesse per lo sviluppo di un progetto molto interessante che conferma i suoi punti di forza anche in questo secondo volume. Al suo fianco, al posto dei musicisti danesi coinvolti nel primo episodio, troviamo due americani e un francese di assoluto valore. ...

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Article: Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: Boundless

Read "Boundless" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


In his relatively brief tenure as a professional jazz musician who derives influences from classical music studies and John Cage-tinted abstractions, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's craft teems with curiously interesting applications and concepts. He's recorded for other prominent European record labels, but debuts on the historic Swiss-based hatOLOGY label with Boundless.Blaser imparts a penchant ...

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Tower, Vol. 2

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Sur l'Electricite; Real Thing #3; Softly Her Tower Crumbled in the Sweet Silent Sun.

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Tower, Vol. 1

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2011

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Article: Album Review

Kevin Brow: Dolls & Guns

Read "Dolls & Guns" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Drummer/composer Kevin Brow is a forward thinker, his compositional acuity and scintillating technique in clear evidence on his debut and sophomore releases--Kopter (2008) and Fire Sink (2011), both on Fresh Sound New Talent--modern works as intellectual as they are risk taking. If these weren't persuasive enough, then Dolls and Guns nails the point home all the ...

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News: Recording

Marc Ducret, Tower, Vol. 2: Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada" as Avant Jazz Continues

Marc Ducret, Tower, Vol. 2: Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada" as Avant Jazz Continues

Guitarist Marc Ducret returns with his second volume of Tower (Ayler 119), a musical commentary on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada. I reviewed the first volume on my Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Site (www. gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com) several months ago. I review volume two here to ensure that the news of this project reaches the bulk of my readers. ...

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Article: Interview

Achille Succi: Nuances and Articulations

Read "Achille Succi: Nuances and Articulations" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Born ...

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Article: Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: Boundless

Read "Boundless" reviewed by Dave Wayne


In a relatively short time, Swiss-born trombonist Samuel Blaser has established himself as one of the most interesting and innovative low brass players to emerge from the international avant-jazz scene at the beginning of the 21st Century. He's also becoming quite prolific, releasing four CDs under his own name over the previous 12 months.Boundless, Blaser's debut ...


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