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ECM Fest at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
ECM Fest SFJAZZSan Francisco, CA March 26-29, 2015 In 1969, German record producer Manfred Eicher founded ECM, a label which would change music history. Since then his Edition of Contemporary Music" imprint has more than lived up to its name, issuing well over a thousand albums by ...
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra: Imaginary Cities
by Eric J. Iannelli
Writing jazz music, says Chris Potter, is a bit of a zen exercise." A lot of what you're thinking about when you're writing is the stuff that's not there. You're thinking about the solos and the way the band is going to play it together--things that can't be notated." For Imaginary Cities, ...
Michael Musillami: Pride
by Alberto Bazzurro
Metà in studio (novembre 2013) e metà dal vivo (2007), questo doppio CD offre uno spaccato alquanto eloquente delle potenzialità del chitarrista Michael Musillami (tutte sue le composizioni) e del suo ormai rodatissimo trio (numerose le incisioni già realizzate), che ospita ora il pianoforte di Kris Davis (e in due brani anche il sax tenore di ...
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra: Imaginary Cities
by Karl Ackermann
In the twenty year span since his debut as a leader on Presenting Chris Potter (Criss Cross, 1994), the Chicago born/South Carolina raised artist has been among the most prolific and in-demand reed players in jazz. Having performed and/or recorded with a wide range of artists from guitarist Pat Metheny to pop legends Steely Dan, Potter ...
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra: Imaginary Cities
by John Kelman
While he is, perhaps, best-known as a reed and woodwind multi-instrumentalist of tremendous power and versatility--the torch-bearer and logical successor, even, to the late, great Michael Brecker--Chris Potter has also demonstrated remarkable breadth as a bandleader and composer. It's hard to imagine that it's been only 23 years since the 44 year-old first came onto the ...
Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Dianne Reeves and more to Play Michael Brecker Cancer Benefit
Once-In-A-Lifetime Concert to Also Feature: Randy Brecker, Mike Mainieri, Joey Calderazzo, Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Evans, Branford Marsalis, Steve Wilson, John Patitucci and Antonio Sanchez New York, NY — On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin and Dianne Reeves along with other prominent musicians will honor the memory of their friend ...
George Hoar: Soul Sojourn
by Mark Sullivan
Bassist/pianist George Hoar has had extensive training and playing experience in jazz with Rufus Reid, Dave Samuels, Harold Mabern, Harvie S and Art Resnick. But his stylistic influences also include world music and Western concert music from the Renaissance and the Baroque, which are very much in evidence here. Hoar leads off the program on piano, ...
November Music 2014
by Henning Bolte
November Music s' Hertogenbosch November 8-9, 2014 November Music is a festival of contemporary music, new music in the broadest sense, held in the medieval town of s'-Hertogenbosch in the southeast of The Netherlands and home of painter Jheronimus Bosch (1450-1516). Besides the core of contemporary composers' music there are neighboring branches ...
Take Five With Rik Wright
by AAJ Staff
Meet Rik Wright: A graph of Rik Wright's influences would read like a wave, running a gamut from jazz to rock and back again. As a guitarist he has taken on influences, often subconsciously, as varied as Andy Summers of The Police and John Abercrombie. Compositionally speaking, Wright hangs with a different crowd altogether, mingling ...
Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: Birdies for Lulu
by Alberto Bazzurro
Sodalizio ampiamente collaudato, quello tra la pianista svizzera e il violinista chicagoano, che in questo nuovo capitolo, inciso a fine 2013, esprime molte delle pieghe espressive che riconosciamo ai due musicisti, sia come singole entità che come coppia. Così il trittico iniziale (inclusa anche la coda finale), frutto della penna di Mark Feldman, ...


