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Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXXII Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
September 15, 2017

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz Sant'Anna Arresi Piazza del Nuraghe 01-10.09.2017 Max Roach e la sua We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Erano queste le coordinate di riferimento della trentaduesima edizione del festival Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz. Percussioni, dunque, ma anche lotte per i diritti civili, per le conquiste ...

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Jazzahead! 2017

by Henning Bolte
May 11, 2017

Jazzahead! Trade Fair/Festival Bremen April 27-29, 2017 Jazzahead!, the annual market place of/for jazz in Hanseatic city of Bremen in North-Western Germany, with a total of 40 showcases and a concluding club night with more than 110 concerts, is impossible to cover adequately in one report. In this article you'll find a ...

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Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017

by Francesco Martinelli
April 14, 2017

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, Italy March 19-26, 2017 The Bergamo Jazz Festival, one of the most long-lived and prestigious Italian festivals, celebrated in 2017 its 39th edition. Since about ten years the Town of Bergamo nominates a musician as artistic director, and the 2017 edition has been the second under ...

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Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017

by Libero Farnè
March 31, 2017

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, varie sedi 19-26.03.2017 Il Bergamo Jazz Festival, che nel 2018 doppierà la boa della quarantesima edizione, per il secondo anno consecutivo è stato diretto da Dave Douglas, il quale ha imbastito un programma decisamente vario, coinvolgendo un numero sempre maggiore di sedi nella Città Alta e nella ...

Article: Interview

Dave Douglas and the Art of Festival Direction

by Libero Farnè
March 18, 2017

Dave Douglas' fame as a forward looking musician is well-known. His contribution to today's music scene, however, is not limited to his playing. Besides having pioneered in 2005 a unique model of musician-run label with the progressive Greenleaf Music, he has been artistic director of the Banff Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music from 2002 to ...

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Dave Douglas, direttore artistico di Bergamo Jazz Festival

by Libero Farnè
March 6, 2017

Basta un'occhiata veloce al programma di Bergamo Jazz 2017 per rendersi conto di alcune prerogative caratterizzanti. Innanzi tutto spicca la diffusione degli eventi in diversi spazi della città, più che nelle edizioni passate. Ai collaudati luoghi da concerto principali, in primis l'Auditorium di Piazza della Libertà e il Teatro Sociale, oltre al prestigioso Teatro Donizetti, si ...

Article: Album Review

Pia Boda: Chasing Pixies

Read "Chasing Pixies" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 30, 2016

The debut solo album of Los Angeles-Born, Danish saxophonist and educator Pia Boda is an evocative attempt to relive old Viking stories about elves and fairies. The symbolic images about a living nature, the chase of the invisible elves and fairies who were supposed to hover in the air, and we can only sense “contours of ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Michel Benita Ethics: River Silver

by John Kelman
February 22, 2016

It's no secret that music is something that can dissolve borders, transcend cultures, and speak with a language understood by all. That the decreasing size of the world has made it possible for artists from disparate countries to collaborate and create music that is truly greater than the sum of its parts--imbued not just with the ...

Article: Album Review

Lars Møller's Aarhus Jazz Orchestra feat. David Liebman and Marilyn Mazur: ReWrite of Spring

Read "ReWrite of Spring" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 17, 2016

In the early twentieth century, at a time when the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was barely known, he had already composed the celebrated works Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911). The 1913 work, The Rite of Spring, was to become renowned both as a ballet and as a stand-alone orchestral score. The Paris premier at the newly ...

Article: Year in Review

Jakob Baekgaard's Best of 2015

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 1, 2016

These ten albums are just a few of the many great releases of 2015. Music was and still is a light in a world filled with problems and fear. When it is best, it encourages openness and contemplation and brings us closer together as humans. John Law These Skies In Which We ...