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Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition

by Ian Patterson
July 30, 2014

1st Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Luslawice/Krakow Poland July 16-19, 2014 He was one of the great jazz virtuosos, right up there some would say with Django Reinhardt, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. Most frequently, however, he was compared to John ...

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1st International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition Won By Bartosz Dworak

July 23, 2014

The 1st Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition was won by twenty six year old Polish violinist Bartosz Dworak. The competition was conceived of and organized by the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation in order to honor the memory and promote the musical legacy of the great Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert, who died in 1979 from cancer ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz: Birdies For Lulu

Read "Birdies For Lulu" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 14, 2014

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman are a dynamic duo within the neoteric strategies of modern jazz, coupled with their substantial artistic output. They intersperse classical inferences with shades of folk, avant-garde schemas, and bristling improvisational segments into the big picture. This incarnation of the quartet now features upper-echelon session bassist Scott Colley and venerable ...

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Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition Draws World's Greatest Upcoming Violinists To Kracow

July 5, 2014

The first edition of the International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition will be held from July 16-19, as part of the 19th Summer Jazz Festival in Piwnica pod Baranam in Kracow, Poland. In addition to commemorating the great Seifert, the organizers of the competition, which is open to entrants from all over the world, hope that ...

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JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014

by Henning Bolte
June 6, 2014

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014 Bergen, Norway May 21-25, 2014 Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries-old merchant tradition, ...

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Michael Musillami Trio: Pride

by Karl Ackermann
June 5, 2014

With ten albums as a leader in his portfolio, guitarist and composer, Michael Musillami remains disproportionately under the radar in the public domain. Working in formats from duo to octet and inspired by classic artists like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Musillami has a gifted touch for arranging the traditional and highly improvisational together in accessible ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Play National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29

May 27, 2014

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman will play the Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29. Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time. Courvoisier has led several groups over ...

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Live at Theatre Vidy-Lausanne

By Mark Feldman

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Five Senses of Keen (Mark Feldman) 12:22; 2. For Alice (Sylvie Courvoisier) 8:23; 3. Orpheus and Eurydice (Mark Feldman) 15:22; 4. Pindar (Courvoisier, Feldman) 2:13; 5. Melpomene (Courvoisier, Feldman) 3:03; 6. Simonides (Courvoisier, Feldman) 4:49; 7. Calliope (Courvoisier, Feldman) 4:36.

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Brian Landrus: The Low End Theory

by Daniel Lehner
November 14, 2013

Specialists don't usually have the luxury of controlling much of their destiny. For a low woodwind expert like Brian Landrus, it would be of little surprise to anyone to find that, though he'd have the freedom to experiment with sounds and timbres for his own records, he would be little more than a hired gun for ...

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John Abercrombie Quartet: 39 Steps

by Andrew Luhn
October 14, 2013

Guitarist John Abercrombie has had a long and successful association with ECM records and for his latest release, 39 Steps, he completes his quartet with a piano. Abercombie had success with this format in the 1970s with Richie Beirach, George Mraz, and Peter Donald, but in the past 10 years his ECM releases have been more ...