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Massimo Biolcati: Persona
by Martin Gladu
Given the industry's current state of affairs, maintaining a record label, let alone an improvisatory music based one, requires creativity to say the least. One such venture to really start garnering attention to itself is Michele Locatelli's six year-old ObliqSound. While theirs is still a relatively young history, the New School University alum and the label's ...
The Producer
by Martin Gladu
The Producer Dunstan Prial Hardcover; 347 pages ISBN: 9780312426002 Picador 2007Dunstan Prial's book The Producer sheds a new light on the life of John Hammond--producer, A&R executive, writer/journalist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People board member and all-round jazz enthusiast. Armed with ...
Ryan Blotnick: Music Needs You
by Martin Gladu
As Jack Kerouac's call for a “rucksack revolution" enticed America's youth to discover themselves and the world through rallies and road trips, musicians, for their part, have found taking the road at the same time an uprooting obligation and liberating transience. After all, as the proverb goes, travels do broaden the mind.A young globe-trotter ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Martin Gladu
Is Carla Bley a Naive artist? The commercial exploitation of her works notwithstanding, one finds, in the simplicity and recurrence of themes; progressions and forms; and idiosyncratic style--as well as in the peculiar ponderous feel to much of her compositions, self-trained, instinctive approach to music-making and libertarian personality--many of the same features found in Naive artistry.
John Taylor: Whirlpool
by Martin Gladu
John Taylor is the pianist of weightlessness. Although overly simple, this aphoristic description of the English virtuoso's dense yet liberated musical discourse renders justice not only to its inherent quality, but to the effect it imparts to listeners. Suspended above an evanescent pulse, swift, jolted rhythms loose their grip; upwardly clouting modulating, mellifluous aural jaunts of ...
Making Records: The Scenes Behind The Music
by Martin Gladu
Making Records: The Scenes Behind The Music Phil Ramone with Charles L. Granata Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 9780786868599 Hyperion 2007For an artist, there can be few human presences in a recording studio as reassuring as that of Phil Ramone--as his collaborations with some of ...
John Vance: Dreamsville
by Martin Gladu
In love as in song, heartfelt declarations are better served softly whispered into the ear. Out of the marketing gambit dubiously called “lounge jazz" (a most cringing sobriquet), one can nevertheless denote a relation to the authentic art form: its kinship to the great Tin Pan Alley songbook. In a few simple metaphors and verses, these ...
Various: Live - Jazz Legends
by Martin Gladu
Despite the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's conservative jazz radio programming, one would be hard-pressed to extirpate negative comments from musicians about the behemoth, as all have come to respect its continued presence and assistance maintaining an appreciative national audience. Indeed, true to its mission statement, the multi-platform state-owned network has always proactively fostered domestic talent, providing artists ...
Tied Up In Strings: Guitarists Daniel Bruce & Didier Verna
by Martin Gladu
Its history deeply ingrained with that of the blues, country & western and rock 'n' roll, the electric guitar has acquired its lettres de noblesse in jazz in the hands of but a few truly innovatory players. Iconic figures such as Charlie Christian, Freddie Green, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Jim Hall and more recently, Adam Rogers, ...
Paul Bley: Solo In Mondsee
by Martin Gladu
The body may feel a bit tired, but the resolute, searching mind, is still very much intact; as sharp as an eagle's eye and as terrifying as a boxer's aim. Pianist Paul Bley has been searching relentlessly for half a century, yet his playing remains as fresh as spring water. His phrases are still as temperamental ...
