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Article: Live Review

Uri Caine Trio Alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

Read "Uri Caine Trio Alla Sala Vanni di Firenze" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Uri Caine Trio SuperJazz Sala Vanni Firenze 18.10.2016 Per la prima data della serie Superjazz alla Sala Vanni di Firenze di scena il nuovo trio di Uri Caine, con Mark Helias al contrabbasso e Clarence Penn alla batteria. La formazione ha da poco pubblicato il disco Calibrated Thickness del quale ...

Article: Live Review

Uri Caine Plays Verdi

Read "Uri Caine Plays Verdi" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Uri Caine Plays Verdi Festival Verdi Teatro Farnese Parma 29-30.10.2016 Cronaca di un evento che ha lasciato un po' di amaro in bocca. La presenza del jazz nei circuiti della musica classica non è certo una novità. Anche recentemente c'è stata più di un'occasione per sondare le ragioni e ...

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Article: Album Review

BassDrumBone: The Long Road

Read "The Long Road" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


BassDrumBone has been in the business of making bold, muscular music for forty years, starting their unusual instrumental collaboration in 1977, and releasing their first album, Ohaspe on Auricle Records, in 1979. Trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerry Hemingway employ a free form, powerhouse approach--there's not much pussyfooting going on with this instrumentation, ...

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Uri Caine: gli ultimi progetti

Read "Uri Caine: gli ultimi progetti" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Gli ultimi due album di Uri Caine confermano la sua statura di musicista poliedrico e inclassificabile. Il pianista di Filadelfia spazia da sempre tra scuole e generi con disincanto e spirito critico ed è uno dei rari compositori e interpreti d'oggi che esprime costante originalità. In questi due dischi, autoprodotti, non abbiamo sorprese stilistiche, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

Read "Early Americans" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Three years on from the ballad standards of Sixteen Sunsets (Outline, 2013), Jane Ira Bloom--one of the few specialist soprano saxophonists--returns with a lustrous collection of originals. At one extreme, the trio of Bloom, Mark Helias and Bobby Previte fairly bristles with collective energy; at the other, it seduces with caressing, impressionistic lyricism. At whatever tempi, ...

Article: Album Review

Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

Read "Early Americans" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Inciso a metà luglio del 2015, questo è con tutta probabilità il miglior album di Jane Ira Bloom che ci sia passato per le mani. Le grandi curiosità iniziali, attorno a questa esile donna che oltre trent'anni fa faceva parlare di sé accanto ai maestri dello strumento che si stava imponendo come una sorta di cornucopia ...

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I nuovi percorsi del Polish Jazz

Read "I nuovi percorsi del Polish Jazz" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Una nuova generazione si fa avanti con determinazione sulla scena del Jazz polacco e molti trovano accoglienza nel catalogo della For-Tune. L'etichetta si propone ambiziosamente di “salvare dall'oblio i fenomeni musicali di natura eterna." Non si rivolge esclusivamente al jazz o agli artisti polacchi e il suo catalogo ospita anche lavori di William Parker, Mary Halvorson, ...

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Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

Read "Early Americans" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


One jazz music's premier soprano saxophonists, Jane Ira Bloom, crafted a career-defining recording with Sixteen Sunsets (Outline Records, 2013). So how does she follow that up? With an alteration of her quartet trajectory. Bloom's recorded output has consisted, over a career that began in the late 90s, of a series of mostly quartet sets, featuring terrific ...

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Article: Hi-Res Jazz

Songlines: An Independent Voice for New Music

Read "Songlines: An Independent Voice for New Music" reviewed by Mark Werlin


The independent Vancouver-based record label Songlines Recordings was established in 1992. Inspired by the contemporary jazz music scene in Vancouver, label founder Tony Reif began recording Canadian, American, Dutch, German and French composer-performers. Over the next two decades, the core group of musicians who recorded frequently for Songlines included Benoît Delbecq, Harris Eisenstadt, Gordon Grdina, Wayne ...

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Article: Album Review

Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

Read "Early Americans" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Over a fruitful career versatile soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has demonstrated a singular artistic voice and a restlessly explorative spirit. Since 2010 she has gone from the free flowing, edgy and electrifying Wingwalker (Outline 2010) to the serene and ethereal Sixteen Sunsets (Outline 2013) and now she presents the earthy and exuberant Early Americans. Her ...


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