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Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit
by Mark Corroto
Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...
Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist
by Andrey Henkin
In 2007, just in time for bassist Barry Guy's 60th birthday, Intakt Records released Portrait, equal parts compilation, introduction, overview and mere glimpse into the musical world of this instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. There are tracks from several editions of Guy's colossal London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO), pieces done with longstanding collaborators like Evan Parker and ...
Marilyn Crispell: Collaborations - Live at Nya Perspektiv Festivals 2004 and 2007
by AAJ Italy Staff
Collaborations raccoglie due diverse apparizioni di Marilyn Crispell al Nya Perspektiv Festival, in Svezia: nell'ottobre 2004 in quartetto e nel marzo 2007 in quintetto. Le due formazioni si distinguono per la presenza di diversi fiati. Fredrik Ljungkvist, che compare nel quartetto, espone una pronuncia tipicamente free non del tutto originale, ma comunque dinamica ed efficace: lirica ...
Trio 3 + Irene Schweizer: Berne Concert
by John Sharpe
Almost without anyone noticing, Trio 3 has become one of the great working bands in jazz. That's not the default outcome of longevity: though saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille first got together under the Trio 3 moniker back in 1992, they have become, if anything, a more cohesive unit over time. ...
The Jazz Session #52: Marilyn Crispell
Jason Crane interviews pianist Marilyn Crispell about her album of solo piano pieces, Vignettes (ECM, 2008). Crispell made an early name for herself with Anthony Braxton, and she’s since amassed an impressive list of recordings that include composed and freely improvised pieces. In this interview, Crispell talks about the nature of improvisation, the particular challenges of ...
Perspectives 2009
by Andrey Henkin
Perspectives 2009 Vasteras, Sweden March 5th-7th, 2009 For those who have not attended, or perhaps not even heard of, the Perspectives International Festival for Creative Music, held in Våsteras, 90 minutes northwest of Stockholm, there are two comparable equivalents. In some ways, Perspectives is similar to the Vision Festival--the names ...
Marilyn Crispell: Uncompromising Power and Grace
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Her notes crash like waves at sea on a stormy winter's night; they gently float and slowly fall like early morning mist; yet it's the silence--the silence between the notes--which provides the haunting poetic beauty that is the music of pianist Marilyn Crispell.Lloyd Peterson: Is there a decrease in listeners for creative music today?
John Geggie / Vic Juris / John Fraboni: Ottawa, Canada Feb. 28, 2009
by John Kelman
John Geggie / Vic Juris / John FraboniGeggie Concert Series 08/09, #4 National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada February 28, 2009 It's all too rare that a musician of Vic Juris' caliber comes to town. Returning to Ottawa as part of bassist John Geggie's annual Geggie Concert ...
Marilyn Crispell: Sibanye (We Are One), Phases of the Night & Geggie Project
by David Adler
Louis Moholo-MoholoSibanye (We Are One)Intakt2008 Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul LyttonPhases of the NightIntakt2008 John GeggieGeggie ProjecyActuelle2008 Put a pin anywhere in the lengthy ...
Louis Moholo-Moholo - Marilyn Crispell: Sibanye (We Are One)
by AAJ Italy Staff
A parte scontati riferimenti alle vicende elettorali d'oltreoceano, il titolo di questa incisione rimanda ad una unità d'intenti che si respira a piene mani lungo le sette tracce dell'album. Sibanye (We Are One) celebra l'incontro tra due spiriti liberi: quello esuberante, africano, militante, di Louis Moholo-Moholo e quello intellettualistico, rigoroso, matematico (ah, quella frequentazione con Braxton) ...
