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Unscientific Italians, Andrea Keller & Tyler Mitchell
by Maurice Hogue
Music from the Southern Hemisphere highlights the first hour with tunes from new releases from Australia (Andrea Keller, Sandy Evans & Sam Anning) and New Zealand's Hatnohathat Trio. Hour two brings more from the L.A. band, The Gathering, in anticipation of their upcoming release next month, and bassist Tyler Mitchell with the indomitable 97-year old Marshall ...
2021: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...
Heliocentric Worlds 1 & 2 Revisited
By Sun Ra
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Heliocentric; Other Nothingness; Other Worlds; The Cosmos; Heavenly Things; Nebulae;
Dancing In The Sun; The Sun Myth; House Of Beauty; Cosmic Chaos.
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
by Chris May
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz Submarine Deluxe 2021 There is much to like about this lovingly put together history of the so-called free jazz of the 1960s and 1970s. Over a decade in the making, the film, directed by self- declared genre obsessive Tom Surgal, is a compilation ...
Paul Bley Trios: Touching & Blood Revisited
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Paul Bley (1932—2016) wasn't just a witness to jazz history, he was a key contributor. Bley performed with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Sonny Rollins, yet his true sound was set in motion when he performed with Ornette Coleman in California, evidenced by Live At The Hillcrest Club 1958 (America Records, 1971). While ...
Adam Kahan: Capturing the Essence of Jazz in a Film
by Victor L. Schermer
Too many are the documentaries produced and directed in a formulaic way using archival clips, photos, and hastily staged interviews that are intended to make a series of facts evident and bring out a few key points. At their best, they give a reasonably realistic illustrated depiction of people, places, and things. That is why a ...
On the Road con Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
by Gioele Pagliaccia
La prima volta che vidi Idris Ackamoor fu al Centro Stabile di Cultura una domenica nel novembre 2018. Gli organizzatori di questo storico locale a San Vito di Leguzzano, un piccolo paese a mezz'ora da Vicenza circondato da fonderie e campi di grano, mi avevano chiesto se potevo prestare la mia Ludwig al batterista dei Pyramids, ...
Andrea Grillini e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
Il tratto principale della mia musica Sostanzialmente mi immagino delle fotografie, ricche di dettagli. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Con i musicisti che suonano con me esiste un legame affettivo e umano. Sono persone con cui è nato uno scambio di informazioni, sancito da una profonda ...
Steve Swell: Astonishments
by John Pietaro
Among the trombonists of New York's downtown scene, or uptown for that matter, no one even comes close to Steve Swell. His level of artistry, ability to create within any sonic cloud, compositional strengths and sheer fortitude set a new standard decades ago. Deemed a veteran of the new music that tore up the 1970s and ...
Tony Adamo Receives Permission To Rename And Write Lyrics To A Future Sun Ra Song
Tony Adamo wrote about and released music on Eddie Harris, B.B. King, Eddie Henderson, Art Blakey, James Brown, Mark Murphy, Eddie Gale, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra, the song entitled “Sun Ra Goes to Mars.” The Eddie Harris estate gave Adamo permission to write spoken word to his “Listen Here.” Adamo renamed it “Listen Here Listen ...
