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Edward Ricart Quartet + Paul Dunmall: Chamaeleon
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sophomore album of guitarist Edward Ricart's powerful quartet (after Ancón, Slam, 2011), now augmented with legendary British saxophonist Paul Dunmall, is a masterful demonstration of free jazz mixed with inspirations from alternative, avant-rock outfits. Ricart, whose list of collaborations covers an impressive spectrum, ranging from hardcore punk band Black Flag and ...
Ornette Coleman / Bachir Attar / The Master Musicians of Jajouka:The Road to Jajouka
by Ian Patterson
Bringing together Moroccan traditional trance musicians with free spirits such as saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Zorn, bassist/producer Bill Laswell, guitarist Marc Ribot, DJ Logic and drummer Billy Martin has instant appeal. It sounds like an andrenaline-pumping, trippy exercise on paper and for much of the journey it's just that. And it's all for a good ...
Hong Kong International Jazz Festival Attracts Top Names
The Hong Kong International Jazz Festival is back with a host of great jazz from the 29th September to the 2nd October. Now in its sixth edition, this most iconic of Asian cities provides a spectacular backdrop to a truly exciting series of concerts featuring top international names including the Asaf Sirkis Trio, the Lars Danielsson ...
Matt Mitchell: Fiction
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Matt Mitchell's debut solo recording, Fiction, is actually a duo recording. And while it is a performance of fifteen compositions, the music was originally conceived of as etudes, or short pieces--exercises to improve the pianist's ability to incorporate improvisation into composed music.Mitchell is quite the in-demand sideman. He can be heard in Tim ...
Ornette Coleman / Bachir Attar / The Master Musicians of Jajouka: The Road to Jajouka
by Chris May
Jazz has been mixing it up with traditional Moroccan music for almost fifty years. Pianist Randy Weston was a pioneer in the late 1960s, followed by saxophonist Ornette Coleman in the early 1970s. A modern successor to those early adventurers is Boston's Club D'Elf, which describes itself as a “Moroccan-dosed psychedelic dub and jazz collective." Club ...
Studio A Sessions Begin This September!
Todd Horton's Soulsearch Music with Ill Eagle Productions will present a series of special concert events, called “Studio A Sessions", once a month, beginning this September at Studio A Philly, located in South Philadelphia. These events will be filmed and recorded for future broadcast. Each concert will feature an artist of exceptional talent and virtuosity. Their ...
Taking stock, a year half over
by Mark Corroto
This month, at the halfway point in the year of music, we are taking stock, and there have been so many great discs released. Here is my list (in no particular order) of the best albums so far. I predict many of these will make final top ten 2013 lists. Sorry, I couldn't keep my list ...
Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog: Your Turn
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se n'è stato buono buono nella cuccia per cinque anni il cane di ceramica, attendendo con pazienza che i padroncini Ches Smith, Shazad Ismaily e Marc Ribot si decidessero a sfornare il seguito del fulminante Party Intellectuals. Vero: i tre l'hanno portato a spasso per il mondo di tanto in tanto, allentando il guinzaglio e facendogli ...
Moers Festival: Moers, Germany, May 17-20, 2013
by Henning Bolte
Moers Festival 2013Moers, GermanyMay 17-19, 2013The internationally renowned Moers Festival again arrived at a turning point, with its 42nd edition. It was the last edition with the famous blue marquee in the vast Castle-park of the city of Moers. Next year, the festival will continue in a reconstructed solid hall, an old covered ...
Art Strike!
by Mark Corroto
"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...
