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Sylvie Courvoisier: D'Agala

by Mark Corroto
January 22, 2018

If you have a pigeonhole into which you would like to place pianist Sylvie Courvoisier's music, maybe stop reading right now. The Swiss-born, now twenty-year native of New York, apportions her many talents to multiple ensembles and musical styles--solo to large ensemble, chamber works, Downtown jazz, flamenco, European classical and improvisation. Needless to say, stagnant is ...

Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: D'Agala

by Troy Dostert
January 16, 2018

Swiss-born pianist Sylvie Courvoisier has spent close to twenty years in the states honing her distinctive approach to classically-inflected jazz improvisation. Along the way she's worked with a who's-who of leading-edge musicians, including veterans like John Zorn, Evan Parker and Ellery Eskelin, but also the younger generation of avant-gardists such as Mary Halvorson and Nate Wooley. ...

Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz Winter 25

by Libero Farnè
January 8, 2018

Umbria Jazz Winter 25 Varie Sedi Orvieto 28.12.2017--01.01.2018 Raggiunto il traguardo dei venticinque anni, come sempre Umbria Jazz Winter con la sua programmazione in ogni ora del giorno ha invaso le strade e i vari ambienti pubblici e privati della città tufacea, registrando una notevole affluenza di pubblico, che nella ...

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Paimon: Book of Angels Volume 32

By Mary Halvorson

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2017
Track listing: Chaskiel; Beniel; Ruhiel; Dahariel; Yeqon; Uzza; Verchiel; Jesodoth; Phul; Rachmiah.

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Away With You

By Mary Halvorson

Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Spirit Splitter (no. 54); Away with You (no. 55); The Absolute Almost (no. 52); Sword Barrel (no. 58); Old King Misfit (no. 57); Fog Bank (no. 56); Safety Orange (no. 59); Inky Ribbons (no. 53).

Article: Album Review

Tomas Fujiwara: Triple Double

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by John Sharpe
December 29, 2017

Drummer Tomas Fujiwara's dynamite new outfit Triple Double deploys the cream of the NYC scene in three instrumental pairings, a mini musical Noah's Ark if you will. Marching ahead are the trumpet and cornet of Ralph Alessi and Taylor Ho Bynum respectively, flanked by the twin guitars of Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, with Fujiwara bringing ...

Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases Of 2017

by John Sharpe
December 28, 2017

Here are ten new releases and two partial reissues, reviewed on All About Jazz, which stood out among the 200 or so discs that I heard this year. Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary HalvorsonCrop Circles (Relative Pitch Records) Over the last fifteen years or more, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist ...

Article: Live Review

Thumbscrew alla Casa del Jazz di Roma

by Mario Calvitti
December 22, 2017

Thumbscrew Casa del Jazz Roma 06.11.2017 Il progetto Thumbscrew nasce dall'incontro di tre forti personalità della scena dell'avanguardia jazzistica newyorkese, la chitarrista Mary Halvorson, il contrabbassista Michael Formanek e il batterista Tomas Fujiwara. Tra loro è scattata subito un'alchimia che li ha portati alla fondazione del trio, che ha già ...

Article: Year in Review

Troy Dostert's Best Releases of 2017

by Troy Dostert
December 16, 2017

Looking over the vast quantity of fine music released in 2017, it is reassuring to know that even in these troubled times, the spirit of creativity and endurance that jazz has always embodied continues to hold strong, especially as the music continually finds new forms of expression that move beyond stylistic boundaries. It was a particularly ...

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Jazztopad Festival 2017

by Henning Bolte
December 13, 2017

Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music Jazztopad Festival Wroclaw, Poland November 21-26, 2017 Jazztopad is the yearly Jazz Festival of Poland's Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw. Wroclaw is a vibrant, hip, internationally oriented city that never sleeps, a city with character, lots of peculiar neighbourhoods, ...