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Marc Ducret solo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Teatro Studio - Auditorium Parco della Musica - Roma - 9.3.2010 Ben tre delle rassegne attive nel corso della stagione attuale presso l'Auditorium romano (la Chitarra, Solo e Contemporanea) convergono nel concerto del chitarrista francese Marc Ducret. Sempre attivo in particolar modo nei settori dell'improvvisazione e dell'avanguardia, Ducret è noto soprattutto per la sua lunga collaborazione ...
The Opposite: Interwined
by Eyal Hareuveni
This Swedish sextet was initiated by Malmö-based French keyboardist Loïc Dequidt and drummer Peter Nilsson--the latter one of the leaders of the Malmö-based Kopasetic Label's musicians collective, which investigates improvisational interplay through a democratic, collective group approach based on a dynamic rhythmic concepts that lean on Indian, African and Cuban traditions. Their instincts proved right since ...
12 Points! Jazz Festival, Stavanger, Norway: Europe's New Jazz
by Ray Comiskey
Unless you're into the downtown jazz scene in Gothenburg, chances are that the name Naoko Sakata won't mean a thing to you. And Mari Kvien Brunvoll? Again, you wouldn't have a clue unless you had your ear to the ground, figuratively speaking, in Molde, home of Norway's best-known jazz festival. Or Trio VD? They're named after ...
Le Sens De La Marche
By Marc Ducret
Label: Illusions Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Total Machine; Tapage; Le Menteur Dans L'Annexe; Aquatique; Nouvelles Nouvelles Du Front.
It's The Drummer, Stupid
by Mark Corroto
If you're a jazz misanthrope you probably think first to shoot the pianist," a saying taken from the Francois Truffaut film of the same name, Tirez sur le pianiste. Truth be told, the most effective way to pull the plug on a jazz band, a very good jazz band, is to take out the drummer. An ...
Kalle Kalima and his Dance Suite for Domesticated Animals, Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
UMO Jazz Orchestra and Kalle Kalima Korjaamo, Helsinki September 25, 2009 When a guitarist attempts to compose for big band, there's an expectation of strong rhythmic motifs, but when the musician concerned is as suffused in contemporary idioms as is Kalle Kalima one gets much more. The big band in ...
The 7th Edition of the Victoires Du Jazz
By Jean-Marc Gelin The 7th edition of the Victoires du jazz, one of the most prestigious awards ceremonies on the French jazz scene, took place on the 1st of September at the Cite de la Musique in Paris, in the presence of Feredric Mitterand, the Minister for Culture. The Victoires du Jazz are awarded by a ...
Marc Ducret: Le sens de la marche
by Jean-Marc Gelin
From the word go, guitarist Marc Ducret's Le sens de la marche enters another world, an unsettled one full of surprise and anguish--one for which there can be no preparation. Vaguely reminiscent of Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Tim Berne, it's a musical hubbub of organized chaos--systematic in theory but brutal and brilliant in practice. The ...
Eric Revis: Laughter's Necklace of Tears
by David Adler
Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straight-ahead to absolutely free. He debuted as a leader in 2004 with Tales of the Stuttering Mime (11:11), and he imbues his sophomore ...
State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words
by Kurt Gottschalk
State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words Ralph Gibson Paperback; 184 pages ISBN: 0300142110 Yale University Press 2008 Saxists have their mouthpieces and drummers their cymbals, but there's no fetish object quite like the guitar. It's played most often by peacocks, strutting and ...


