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Article: Album Review

Jerry Granelli: Dance Hall

Read "Dance Hall" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini

by Maurizio Comandini
January 8, 2018

L'arzillo Jerry Granelli, batterista sensibile e cazzuto, aveva centrato nel 1992, con l'album A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing, uno dei picchi più importanti della sua lunghissima carriera. Un lavoro ormai mitico, dove metteva assieme due chitarristi illustri come Bill Frisell e Robben Ford per un modernissimo omaggio al Buddy Bolden immaginato dallo scrittore ...

Album

Red Hook Soul

By Michael Blake

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2017
Track listing: Red Hook Soul; Volunteered Slavery; The Nitty Gritty; Video Games; King Curtis; I Love You More Than Words Can Say; Did You Call Her Today?; Everybody Needs Love; Lucky Old Sun.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mondo Jazz: Traveling (Part 1)

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 24, 2017

Jazz and Travel... what a natural fit! In this installment of Mondo Jazz we explore music that was inspired by the relentless travels that jazz musicians have to endure in order to share their music with their audiences, their departures and arrivals, their discoveries, adventures and misadventures using trains and planes and the places ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mondo Jazz: Walking

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 14, 2017

Welcome to the first Mixcloud podcast on All About Jazz. It contains the first episode of Mondo Jazz, a new radio show devoted to international jazz airing every Wednesday night from 10 PM to midnight on Radio Free Brooklyn. Mondo Jazz is dedicated to the proposition that jazz is a language that originated in ...

Article: Live Review

Erik Friedlander's Oscalypso al Carambolage di Bolzano

by Giuseppe Segala
February 10, 2017

Erik Friedlander's Oscalypso Piccolo Teatro Carambolage Bolzano 06.02.2017 Eleganza, precisione, arrangiamenti che coniugano intricati contrappunti a trasparenti unisoni, attenzione ai contrasti dinamici e agli impasti timbrici. Senso dell'esplorazione e della sorpresa. Sembrerebbe la descrizione dell'approccio musicale cameristico tipico di quello che è stato collocato sotto la definizione di Cool Jazz. Quella ...

Article: Live Review

Erik Friedlander At National Concert Hall, Dublin

by Ian Patterson
February 8, 2017

Erik Friedlander Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland February 4, 2017 The sense of privilege was inescapable. To be one of a small number of people present at an intimate performance of music so beautiful felt like a royal invitation. Cellist Erik Friedlander was born the year ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Red Hook Soul

Read "Red Hook Soul" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini

by Maurizio Comandini
January 26, 2017

Il saxofonista canadese Michael Blake è ormai newyorkese fino in fondo all'anima ma se date retta ai profumi che si spargono nell'aria ascoltando questo ottimo Red Hook Soul si direbbe che, quando serve, almeno una parte della sua anima si trasferisca magicamente nelle vie di New Orleans, a caccia di quel groove solido, viscerale e fantasioso ...

Article: Interview

Erik Friedlander: A Little Cello?

by Ian Patterson
January 9, 2017

Normally lumped into the 'miscellaneous instruments' category of jazz awards, the cello has been something of a bit player in the colorful history of jazz. That said, today there are arguably more cellists in jazz and contemporary improvised music--and some extraordinary ones at that--than ever before. One of the best known cellists is undoubtedly Erik Friedlander, ...

Article: Year in Review

Il meglio del 2016 Secondo Paolo Peviani

by Paolo Peviani
January 9, 2017

Dal punto di vista discografico, quella del 2016 è stata un'annata molto ricca. Nessun picco straordinario ma tanti buoni, ottimi dischi, da ascoltare e riascoltare con attenzione. Dal mio piccolo e per forza di cose parziale osservatorio, ho avuto l'impressione che i grandi nomi del jazz -al netto di qualche eccezione -non abbiano prodotto grandi cose. ...

Album

Fulfillment

By Michael Blake

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Sea Shanty; Perimeters; The Ballad of Gurdit Singh; Arrivals; Departures; Battle at Baj Baj; Exaltation; The Soldier and the Saint.