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Notable & Nearly Missed in 2013
by C. Michael Bailey
More music is released each year than can be realistically followed by a given writer. I typically listen to much more music than I write about, not because this music is not worthy somehow but there is so little time. So, this year, I am going to write a “Notable & Nearly Missed" column to catch ...
French New Wave (5-CD Box Set) Released On Jazz On Film Records
“Jazz was an integral part of the artistic scene that centred around the St-Germain-des-Pres. So it was only logical that the young, new wave directors made films by day using the same music they heard in the clubs at night.” Marcel Romano supervisor at Miles Davis’ Lift to the Scaffold studio recording, Dec. 1957) Jazzwise magazine ...
At the Corner: Ran Blake / Sara Serpa / Christine Correa
by C. Michael Bailey
The common element between Sara Serpa's Aurora and Christine Correa's Down Here Below is obviously pianist Ran Blake. Enigmatic to a fault, Blake has made a potent name for himself among improvised music enthusiasts. Blake is an intellectual amalgam of pianists Thelonious Monk and Martial Solal distilled to a dissonant essence. A long ...
Hal Galper Trio: Airegin Revisited
by Dan McClenaghan
Hal Galper's Airegin Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the “elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several distinctive and idiosyncratic trio recordings. Galper, like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal, has gone deeper ...
Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet: Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Austrian-American Renaissance woman Elisabeth Lohninger is many things. She is a singer, composer, producer, writer, teacher and studio owner. Over the past several years Lohninger has found time to record four collections with her quartet: Beneath Your Surface (Lofish, 2005), The Only Way Out is Up (Lofish, 2007), Songs of Love and Destruction (Lofish, 2010), and ...
LazJaz Trio Features French Jazz Composers on Nov. 11 Recital at Acoustix Jazz Lounge
LazJaz Trio, featuring Charles Laz, piano instructor at the Nice Conservatory, will give a jazz recital in Atlanta featuring the works of French composers on Nov. 11 at Acoustix Jazz Lounge & Restaurant, 840 Marietta St. (corner of Northside Drive, 404-879-0111) near GA Tech Campus, from 7:30 to 11:30 pm. The recital will feature the jazz ...
Lee Konitz and Martial Solal: Star Eyes 1983
by C. Michael Bailey
Lee Konitz and Martial SolalStar Eyes 1983Hatology2009 Even in his eighties, pianist Martial Solal has proven to be the Higgs' Boson of jazz. He readily demonstrates the substantial mass he brings to music most recently on his uniformly excellent Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You ...
Stefano Bollani: And Now For Something Completely Different
by Ian Patterson
Impersonating singer Paolo Conte and other Italian cultural icons comes as naturally to pianist Stefano Bollani as interpreting the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Michael Jackson, Brian Wilson, or Maurice Ravel--or indeed, writing novels. To say that Bollani is multitalented is a bit like saying Art Tatum could play the piano a bit. Oh, and Bollani ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: London, England, November 16, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Nik Bärtsch's RoninLondon Jazz FestivalKing's PlaceLondon, EnglandNovember 16, 2011 Looking at the listings for day six of the London Jazz Festival, the term “spoilt for choice" sprang to mind. At the Barbican, pianists Stefano Bollani and French veteran Martial Solal led a double bill supported by Marcin Wasilewski's ...
