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Luca Vitali - Il suono del Nord
by Luca Canini
Il Libro Aurore boreali, fiordi, salmoni, un re che si chiama Harald, fenomenali sciatori, un paio di attaccanti spilungoni che hanno lasciato il segno anche in Italia e una scena jazz da crepare d'invidia. Cresciuta rigogliosa nonostante la Novergia non sia esattamente al centro del villaggio globale. E nonostante gli evidenti limiti rappresentati ...
Tampere Jazz Happening 2014
by Henning Bolte
Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland October 30--November 2, 2014 On the way from the airport to the city of Tampere you pass by Nokia, situated fifteen kilometres west of Tampere, the Scandinavian city famous for its gumboots and cables, and famous for its mobile phones. For a while 'Nokia' was synonymous ...
Frank Lowe: Out Loud
by Mark Corroto
Musical archeology has become somewhat of a trend these days. It might be explained, in part by the rebirth of vinyl and the excavation of long out-of-print titles, but also there are scores of devoted collectors who've discovered unpublished recordings of significant artists. For the serially neglected avant-garde of jazz, some of these finds have been ...
William Hooker & Liudas Mockūnas: Live at Vilnius Jazz Festival
by Mark Corroto
Did somebody say “bring it?" Must have, because the combination of muscleman drummer William Hooker and Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas surely delivers the goods in this 53-minute duo improvisation performance at the Vilnius Jazz Festival in October 2013.The four lengthy tracks are part of a continuous set the two seared into their audience's ears. ...
Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio + Peter Evans: The Freedom Principle
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado requires a proper foil to his music making. Not so much a player who is his converse, but more like a complementary player. One who completes or enhances his sound. In trumpeter Peter Evans, he has found his homogeneous antithesis. Heard on two recent recordings, the LP-only release Live In Lisbon> ...
Akira Sakata / Johan Berthling / Paal Nilssen-Love: Arashi
by Eyal Hareuveni
This is a trio of like-minded, fearless musicians who like their music hot, steamy and climatic and would not settle for less than that. The Scandinavian rhythm section of prolific Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, member of the power trio The Thing and Swedish double bassist Johan Berthling, member of the like-minded trio Fire! (both feature Swedish ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms: From the Region
by Mark Corroto
An imagined overheard conversation in heaven between Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi goes something like this: “If only all music could swing this hard, there would be no need for war."Okay, maybe it wasn't MLK and Gandhi, but it could have been Horace Silver and Joey Ramone.In a trio format, Vibraphonist ...
Three new releases on Rune Grammofon
by John Eyles
Norway's Rune Grammofon label long ago established itself in the front rank, initially based on releases by the group Supersilent plus releases including its members Deathprod (Helge Sten), Ståle Storløkken and Arve Henriksen. In addition, the label has gradually built up an impressive roster including such Scandinavian artists as Alog, Fire!, Jenny Hval, Motorpsycho and Susanna ...
Gilbert Holmstrom New Quintet: Tiden Ar Kort!
by Vincenzo Roggero
Gilbert Holmstrom è una vera e propria leggenda della scena jazz svedese, il suo stile e la sua figura hanno influenzato molti musicisti delle generazioni successive tra cui Mats Gustafsson che ha il merito di aver contribuito alla ristampa di Waves from Albert Ayler , gran disco del 1975 licenziato con il trio denominato Mount Everest. ...
Save the Date - Giugno 2014
by Luca Canini
È stato un maggio entusiasmante. Il quartetto di Michael Formanek e l'Arkestra a Vicenza, l'omaggio a “Butch" Morris confezionato da Wayne Horvitz passato da Novara e Bologna, gli Overseas IV di Evind Opsvik a Correggio e Foligno, Andy Moor e Yannis Kyriakides visti a Forlì e Venezia: una meraviglia appresso all'altra per un mese di grande ...
