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Michael Mantler

Michael Mantler was born in 1943 in Vienna, Austria, where he studied trumpet and musicology at the Academy of Music and Vienna University. In 1962 he went to the USA to continue his studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. He moved to New York in 1964 and started playing trumpet with Cecil Taylor and others. During that period he was also involved in the formation of the Jazz Composer's Guild, a collective of musicians and composers, struggling for better working conditions and opportunities to present their new music without compromise. Together with Carla Bley he formed a large jazz orchestra to perform new compositions, resulting in their first recording Communication. After the Guild discontinued its activities, he toured Europe twice during 1965/66 with the Jazz Realities Quintet, featuring Steve Lacy and Carla Bley

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

By NERI POLLASTRI

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra A Jazz Supreme Sala Vanni Firenze 29.11.2019 Fresca dell'uscita del suo primo, omonimo disco (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione), si è esibita sul palcoscenico della Sala Vanni, per A Jazz Supreme, la Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra, formazione che prende il nome dal Torrione di ...

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra: Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Dopo tre anni di attività la Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra pubblica il suo debutto. Il nome è ispirato alla storica Jazz Composer's Orchestra di Carla Bley e Michael Mantler e al suo progetto di base: un collettivo di compositori orientati a superare le gabbie stilistiche del modern mainstream orchestrale. L'organico è emanazione del ...

The Baba Orchestra: Another Ride on the Elephant Slide

By ANGELO LEONARDI

La lezione orchestrale della Jazz Composer's Orchestra di Carla Bley e Michael Mantler (e indietro nel tempo di Bob Graettinger) rivive e si rinnova in quest'album magistrale della Baba Orchestra. Un lavoro sorprendente che non è possibile trascurare anche se ci giunge in ritardo. Leader del progetto è la giovane violinista e compositrice ...

Carla Bley's Trio at the Jazz Standard

By AKINFE FATOU

Carla Bley's Trio Jazz Standard New York, NY March 19, 2019 Carla Bley is extraordinary, savvy, and enigmatic. The Guggenheim Fellow (1972), German Jazz Trophy winner ("A Life of Jazz"—2009), 5-time GRAMMY-nominee and NEA Jazz Master (2015) was joined by her spouse Steve Swallow on electric bass and Andy Sheppard on ...

Carla Bley Trio at Dazzle

By GEOFF ANDERSON

Carla Bley Trio Dazzle Denver, CO March 24, 2019 At age 82, Carla Bley has been around. But not everywhere. Remarkably, her two nights at Dazzle last weekend marked her first appearances in Colorado as a performer. Still, the depth and scope of her past music-making is unmatched ...

European Jazz Conference Lisbon 2018: Portuguese showcases

By HENNING BOLTE

Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB); Livraria Ler Devagar European Jazz Conference Lisbon 2018 Lisbon, Portugal September 13-15, 2018 European Jazz Conference Lisbon 2018: Portuguese showcases This year's annual European Jazz Conference, a convention organized by the European Jazz Network, took place at Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) in the Portuguese capital ...

David Helbock

Two rewards and the audience prize at the world biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the Jazzfestival Montreux, a lot of enthusiastic/international reviews for his CDs and the most important prize in Austria 2011 - the "Outstanding Artist Award" - David Helbock, the pianoplayer coming from a small little village in Austria called Koblach, is with no doubt, has already had a great international musical career. Helbock is not only a great pianist, he is also a very individual thinker, who is investing not only a lot of dexterity but also quite an amount of brain activity to his projects

Comment c'est

By MICHAEL MANTLER

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2017

Steven Wilson: To the Bone

By JOHN KELMAN

From the moment that he decided to “go solo"--despite his previous flagship group, Porcupine Tree, beginning in the late '80s as a solo project that only evolved into a group when it became popular enough to necessitate putting together a band in order to perform live--Steven Wilson has, in many ways, defied categorization and expectation, while ...