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CrossCurrent 3: A Cry for Cultural Development
by Gian Paolo Galasi
CrossCurrent Festival 3: Press Conference Piazza Loggia, Café Aquarium Brescia, Italy June 21, 2011 This space may not be the most fitting for an extended cultural/sociological analysis of how artistic expression and economical acknowledgment feeds each other, but there are events that can be taken as a good starting point for ...
Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel
by John Kelman
He puts out albums under his own name so rarely, while amassing a discography as a sideman/co-leader that's almost unparalleled in its sheer size and stylistic breadth—with over 100 recordings to date, since he first showed up in saxophonist James Carter's groups of the mid-1990s—that it's cause for celebration any time pianist Craig Taborn gets around ...
Tim Berne: Insomnia
by Troy Collins
Recorded in the summer of 1997, the previously unreleased Insomnia offers an expanded variation of composer/saxophonist Tim Berne's critically lauded 1990s quartet, Bloodcount. The group, which featured Berne (on alto and baritone saxophones), tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Chris Speed, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Jim Black, was widely revered for its ability to fashion dramatic opuses that seamlessly ...
Tim Berne: Insomnia
by Charles Walker
Tim BerneInsomniaClean Feed2011 In the medical world, a blood count is a clinical tool, a method of aggregating data in order to make a diagnosis. In short, it's a way of picturing the lay of the land and from there determining the best path forward. Alto saxophonist Tim ...
The Rub And Spare Change
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Twenty Three Neo; The Rub And Spare Change; Inside The Box; Jack's Last Call; Tonal Suite; Too Big To Fail.
Ground Rush
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Mr. Mc; 02. Fife; 03. Filthy Rich (Arguelles/Formanek/Rainey); 04. Blood Eagle;
05. From One JC to Another; 06. Bulerias; 07. Know Excuses (Arguelles/Formanek/Rainey);
08. Redman.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Julian Arguelles tranne quelle indicate.
Hugo Carvalhais: Nebulosa
by Mark Corroto
Fans of American saxophonist Tim Berne are often inclined to seek out his latest recordings. Two 2010 sessions finds him as a sideman--bassist Michael Formanek's The Rub And The Spare Change (ECM), and this superb discovery from another bassist, Hugo Carvalhais.The Portuguese bassist composed all the music, played by Berne and fellow countrymen Gabriel ...
Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che Ecm, la storica etichetta bavarese di Manfred Eicher, stia tornando ad occuparsi anche di jazz avventuroso e creativo ? Parrebbe proprio di sì a giudicare dalla pubblicazione di The Rube and The Spare Change ultima fatica discografica a proprio nome di Michael Formanek, dodici anni dopo Am I Bothering You (Screwgun 1998). E che uscita! ...
Best Jazz Albums of 2010
For the music obsessed, every year has a musical identity that's colored by the new albums and songs that receive steady play on our various devices. I generally love doing these year-end things because it gives me a chance to go back to pieces that jumped out at the time. More than that, it's interesting to ...
Michael Formanek CD Release Show at Jazz Standard
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Michael FormanekJazz StandardNew York, NY October 27, 2010 Bassist Michael Formanek celebrated the release of The Rub and Spare Change with two sets at the venerable Jazz Standard, October 27, 2010. It was noteworthy as his debut for ECM Records and first new CD in about a dozen years.
