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Mark Whitecage

Mark Whitecage is internationally known as an innovative instrumentalist and composer in the fields of jazz and new music. He performs at the highest level of creativity, constantly transforming and reconfiguring his wealth of musical experience to offer a fresh and unique voice in any musical setting. In his five decades of experience, Mark has explored bop and post-bop, free-wheeling improvisation, electronics, musical opera, music for dance, solo to big band ensembles, even sound collages with homemade instruments. Mark says of his experience, "I've played in every type of band there is except klezmer." Born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1937, he began performing on alto sax at age 6 in his pianist father's family band along with his brother and sister

Nu Band: Live In Geneva

By JOHN SHARPE

Everything must change as the Nina Simone song puts it. That's as true in music as anywhere else, and changing one of the parts inevitably affects the whole. When NYC-based German trumpeter Thomas Heberer replaced the late lamented Roy Campbell in The Nu Band, it must have been heart-in-mouth time for colleagues bassist Joe Fonda, reedman ...

The Nu Band: The Final Concert

By JOHN SHARPE

The title refers to trumpeter Roy Campbell's last appearance with the outfit he founded with drummer Lou Grassi twelve years before. Campbell died in 2014 at the age of 61, 21 months after this March 2012 live date from Bad Hofgastein, Austria at the conclusion of a European tour. This limited edition LP constitutes the seventh ...

Poker di Michael Jefry Stevens

By GIUSEPPE SEGALA

Il pianista, compositore, teorico e didatta Michael Jefry Stevens ha impresso il proprio significativo contributo al jazz contemporaneo attraverso un lavoro che dura da circa quarant'anni, associato a un ampio ventaglio di musicisti e a formazioni di grande interesse, tra cui Mosaic Sextet e Liquid Time con Dave Douglas, The Fonda/Stevens Group con Joe Fonda, Conference ...

Joe McPhee: Flowers

By MARK CORROTO

For the longest time it was a commonly held belief that solo saxophone performances, especially freely improvised solo saxophone performances, were an acquired taste. Meaning they are things that one has come to like only through experience, but mostly it is a polite way to say you find the music distasteful. Certainly, much of improvised music ...

Remembering Dominic Duval

By DOM MINASI

Around 1985, I got a call from a close friend and my drummer at the time, Tony Lupo. Tony and I had been friends and playing together since 1963. At that time, we were both into Be-Bop and as we grew in age, our musical tastes and interest leaned towards outside playing. Of course, we never ...

Dominic Duval: Follow Your Melody

By MAXIM MICHELIOV

In memory of Dominic Duval: 1945-2016. This article was first published in October 2010. Bassist Dominic Duval is a mystery to many--even to those interested in free music. Seemingly emerging out of nowhere in the mid-1990s, over the course of 15 years he has built a formidable discography, firmly establishing him as one of ...

Max Johnson Quartet

By MARK WHITECAGE

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Elephant March; 02. Lost & Found (for Henry Grimes); 03. Disharmony in 5 Notes or Less; 04. 60-66; 05. Atonement; 06. Iset-Ra. Tutte le composizioni sono do Max Johnson.

Max Johnson Quartet: Max Johnson Quartet

By AAJ ITALY STAFF

Il disco si presenta nella solida confezione cartonata che caratterizza le uscite Not Two, etichetta polacca fondata nel 1998 da Marek Winiarski dal catalogo sempre più interessante. Ma la vera goduria per gli occhi è la rappresentazione in vivido stile flower- power degli strumenti presenti nell'incisione, veri capolavori grafico/pittorici dai colori sgargianti che sembrano rendere palpabili ...