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I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Samuel Blaser

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Samuel Blaser" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Clifford Jordan plays Leadbelly -These Are My Roots (Atlantic Records -1965). Ho condiviso l'ascolto di questo fantastico disco durante una session a Brooklyn circa due anni fa con il sassofonista Michael Blake e il bassista Michael Bates. 02. Michael Blake -Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside Records -2014). Con Michael, che è uno ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Bates: Northern Spy

Read "Northern Spy" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Did you ever get a bit envious listening to a recording and thinking the band is having way too much fun making music? I'm not saying Northern Spy stirs up jealousy, but damn the trio of bassist Michael Bates, saxophonist Michael Blake and drummer Jeremy “Bean" Clemons are up to some serious jollification here.This, ...

Article: Interview

Secondo capitolo per il trio di Giovanni Guidi

Read "Secondo capitolo per il trio di Giovanni Guidi" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


A distanza di un anno da City of Broken Dreams, l'ECM pubblica in questi giorni il nuovo capitolo del trio di Giovanni Guidi con Thomas Morgan e João Lobo, This Is the Day. Un lavoro particolarmente raffinato e maturo, con nuove splendide composizioni e una ricca empatia. Il pianista umbro ce ne parla in quest'intervista.

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Tiddy Boom

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1. Skinny Dip; 2. Tiddy Boom; 3. Hawk's Last Rhumba; 4. Boogaloop; 5. Coastline; 6. Letters in Disguise; 7. A Good Day for Pres; 8. The Ambassadors.

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Tiddy Boom

Read "Tiddy Boom" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini


Michael Blake cita espressamente tre sassofonisti nelle rarefatte note di copertina di questo album: Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young e Ross Taggart. I primi due sono la fonte di ispirazione di questo eccellente Tiddy Boom, mentre Taggart viene menzionato soprattutto per ricordarne la figura, di recente scomparsa. Ma non sarebbe sbagliato tirare fuori dall'armadio anche ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Tiddy Boom

Read "Tiddy Boom" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Tenor saxophonist Michael Blake has played a prominent factor within the backbone of New York's progressive jazz scene, having performed with big bands, small ensembles and on Tiddy Boom, re-aligning with New York Jazz Collective comrades, pianist Frank Kimbrough and bassist Ben Allison. In-demand session drummer Rudy Royston complements a group that proffers sympathetic support to ...

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Article: Album Review

Scott Neumann Neu3 Trio: Blessed

Read "Blessed" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Questo disco nasce dal desiderio del batterista Scott Neumann di incidere in trio con Michael Blake, sassofonista conosciuto nel lontano 1985 e successivamente incrociato in vari progetti. La storia musicale, la personalità e la mentalità aperta di Mark Helias sono gli elementi che hanno successivamente portato il leader a scegliere senza tentennamenti il contrabbassista. Nasce così ...

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Article: Catching Up With

John Lurie's Art For Art's Sake

Read "John Lurie's Art For Art's Sake" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The release of The Invention Of Animals (Amulet, 2014) finds the return of saxophonist and visual artist John Lurie to the musical spotlight he left nearly twenty years ago. First recognized in the late 1970s for his Downtown band The Lounge Lizards, a band that introduced many listeners to artists such as Marc Ribot, Michael Blake, ...

Album

One from None

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. One from None (Bates); 02. Van Gogh (Bates); 03. Dogfish (Bates); 04. Recurring Dream (Blaser); 05. Balance (Bates); 06. Uncertain Salvo (Bates); 07. Rising Moon (Blaser); 08. It Began to Get Dark (Blaser).

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Article: Interview

Ted Nash: The Goal Is Creativity

Read "Ted Nash: The Goal Is Creativity" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


A New York City morning often starts early, sometimes 6 a.m., for this musician who is trying to elongate the hours available in a day. There's a lot to get to. Practicing the saxophone or flute. Sitting down to go through the elusive and demanding task of writing music worthy of the plateau, which these days ...


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