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Article: Interview

Kind of Purple: Jazz Musicians On Prince

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 21, 2016

"Do you know who Prince kinda reminds me of, particularly as a pianist? Duke! Yeah, he's the Duke Ellington of the eighties to my way of thinking."--Miles Davis The tops of the pop charts isn't where we often expect to find genius. Brilliant performers sometimes, expert attention grabbers maybe more often, but it's not ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Read "Vista Accumulation" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 30, 2016

L'elenco delle formazioni a cui ha prestato i propri servigi è da paura comprendendo, tra gli altri, Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Dave Douglas Quintet, Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, ossia una bella fetta della scena avant jazz statunitense, ma come leader il pianista Matt Mitchell è solo alla seconda prova. Vista Accumulation, che giunge ...

Article: Live Review

Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Bird Calls at The Wexner Center for The Arts

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2016

Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa brought his quintet to the Wexner Center at The Ohio State University February 27, 2016, to play his book of original compositions precipitated by the music of Charlie Parker. The audience to this sold out show was left with the proverbial question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Article: Album Review

Dan Weiss: Sixteen: Drummers Suite

Read "Sixteen: Drummers Suite" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 16, 2016

Dan Weiss began his professional drumming career touring with the likes of saxophonists David Binney, Lee Konitz, Rudresh Mahantthapa, among others. Weiss has also been studying tabla with Pandit Samir Chatterjee for two decades and has been named a top drummer in a number of prominent polls. Sixteen: Drummers Suite bears more than a passing resemblance ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Marta Sanchez

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 13, 2016

01. Jaki Byard --The Last from Lennie's (Prestige--2003). Ho ascoltato spesso Jaki Byard durante l'ultimo anno. Ora sto indirizzando la mia attenzione su questo disco con Joe Farrell. La versione di “After You've Gone," suonata in trio è sorprendente. Subito dopo l'esposizione della melodia piano, basso e batteria eseguono dei soli. Lo stride di Jaki ...

Article: Year in Review

2015: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 4, 2016

The year 2015 was a curious blend of ups and downs, with glimmers of optimism offset by its losses. Venues opened to great fanfare, but others closed for a variety of reasons. UNESCO's International Jazz Day became firmly entrenched as the exclamation point on Jazz Appreciation Month activities in April. Daily arts journalism took a hit ...

Album

Vista Accumulation

By Matt Mitchell

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: Disc 1: Select Your Existence; All the Elasticity; Numb Trudge; ‘twouldn’t’ve. Disc 2: Utensil Strength; Wearing the Wig of Atrophy; Hyper Pathos; The Damaged Center

Album

Bird Calls

By Rudresh Mahanthappa

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: Bird Calls #1; On the DL; Bird Calls #2; Chilllin’; Bird Calls #3; Talin is Thinking; Both Hands; Bird Calls #4; Gopuram; Maybe Later; Bird Calls # 5; Sure Why Not?; Man, Thanks for Coming.

Article: Album Review

Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart

Read "Brazen Heart" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
November 30, 2015

Leading a quintet whose debut recording, Be Still (Greenleaf Music, 2012) was an elegiac song cycle dedicated to his late mother, Dave Douglas' Brazen Heart, sadly, finds the trumpeter / composer in mourning once again. Damon Douglas, Dave's brother, passed away in June 2015. Yet, the overall tenor of Brazen Heart is completely different than Be ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Read "Vista Accumulation" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 31, 2015

Growing up in a neighborhood, how do you get from, “Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!" to “Congratulations, Mr. Mitchell, on your son winning the Doris Duke Impact award and being named a Pew Fellow"? We are talking about the musical, not the suburban neighborhood here and in seemingly a blink of an eye, ...