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William Parker's Healing Song in Tampere
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 1, 2003 Bassist and musical visionary William Parker says that by 2010 all musicians will be playing what he calls “cosmic music.” If images of everyone’s favorite Saturnian Sun Ra jump to mind, you wouldn’t be mistaken. Parker’s “Healing Song”, a collaboration with his wife the ...
Samuli Mikkonen in Tampere: Composed Moods and Spontaneous Energy
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 2, 2003 Since Louis Armstrong, jazz has been a soloist’s art form where listeners long to hear the individual unfold their emotions in either tightly-constructed phrases or volcanic bursts of sound. In contrast, classical music has built a tradition of expressing emotion through the ...
Louis Sclavis in Tampere: Memories of a Naples that Never Was
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 2, 2003 Memory holds a sprawling store of sensations, some of them real and some of them imagined. At its most powerful, memory merges the two to create an image that resonates with emotion and meaning. Napoli’s Walls, the latest project and album from ...
Triade with Mikko Innanen: The Improviser's Journey
by Matthew Wuethrich
Jazz Bar Jyväskylä, Finland October 24, 2003 An improviser searches for meaningful ways to connect one moment to the next; the meaning they find often depends on where they start. The French trio Triade and Finnish saxophonist Mikko Innanen understand just how valuable choosing the right starting point is. CD samples, Arnold ...
TUM Records: Putting Finnish Jazz Top-Shelf
by Matthew Wuethrich
Finland has been growing its own jazz dialect for over thirty years, developing a crop of world-class players that unfairly get only scant coverage outside their home country. Helsinki-based TUM Records, with three new releases in the past four months, are giving Finnish jazz the world-class presentation it deserves. Among the doom and gloom forecasts for ...
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
by Matthew Wuethrich
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King Lloyd Bradley Penguin Books 2001 On April 22, 1978 30,000 people filled Kingston’s National Stadium to see the One Love Peace concert. On the bill was singer Dennis Brown, pop-reggae sensation Inner Circle, the vocal trio The Mighty diamonds, the toaster Trinity, the spliff-toting ...
So What: Reconciling Miles the Man and his Music
by Matthew Wuethrich
So What John Szwed Simon & Schuster 2002 After reading Miles’ autobiography, writer Pearl Cleage related in a 1990 essay how and why she decided to stop listening to Miles Davis’ music. Entitled “Mad at Miles,” the essay challenges the reader with this image: “Can we make love to the ...
Musical Mutations: Farmer's Market at Finland's SummerJazz
by Matthew Wuethrich
“Holy Miscegenations, Batman!” “You’re right, Robin. They’ve crossbred pop, jazz, and various world musics with Bulgarian folk melodies! And yes, his accordion was hooked up to a Hammond amplifier. What should we make of this? Is it a comedy act? Hyper-charged Vaudeville for the Media Age? A post-modern joke? Improvised madness? Technical wizardry from a bunch ...
Charlie Mariano & Dieter Ilg: Relaxin' at Jyv
by Matthew Wuethrich
After a 60-year career in jazz, playing with everyone from Stan Kenton and Charlie Mingus to being one of the first into the ”ethnic jazz” genre, Charlie Mariano does not feel the need to impress anybody. His relaxed set with German bassist Dieter Ilg at Jyväsklyä’s Summer Jazz festival showed two top musicians with graceful, prodigious, ...
Ahava & Tony Elgland: Defining Space at Jyv
by Matthew Wuethrich
Space, both physical and musical, plays a vital role in how a performance unfolds. Physical space-the performance space-can open new possibilities for the performers; while musical space-the role silence plays-can create tension and mood in a piece. Performing in Jyväskylä’s spacious Taulumäen Church as part the Summer Jazz festival, Ahava, a quartet led by vocalist Mia ...
