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Das Rosa Rauschen: 8 Miniaturen (aus dem Zyklus 10 Miniaturen)

Read "8 Miniaturen (aus dem Zyklus 10 Miniaturen)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 20, 2015

È il sassofonista berlinese Felix Wahnschaffe, fresco cinquantenne con una serie di partnership di tutto rispetto (Schlippenbach, Vitous, Lacy, Rivers, Tchicai, Nabatov, Takase...), il principale artefice del quartetto protagonista di questo album (sue tutte e otto le “miniature" del titolo), entro le cui geometrie regna un bell'amalgama, capace per lo più di evitare la trappola dell'ovvietà ...

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Michael Mantler - The Jazz Composers Orchestra Update

By Michael Mantler

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: 01 Update One 4:47 02 Update Eight 6:00 03 Update Nine 5:45 04 Update Eleven 7:01 05 Update Five 5:03 06 Update Six 7:23 07 Update Ten 6:45 08 Update Twelve Pt. 1 6:50 09 Update Twelve Pt. 2 2:48 10 Update Twelve Pt. 3 2:29

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The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update

By Michael Mantler

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Update One; Update Eight; Update Nine; Update Eleven; Update Five; Update Six; Update Ten; Update Twelve Pt. 1; Update Twelve Pt. 2; Update Twelve Pt. 3.

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Michael Mantler: The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update

Read "The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
November 13, 2014

Trumpeter Michael Mantler has been a fixture on the US music scene for so long that it's easy to forget the global nature of his career. Born in Vienna, Austria, he came to the US in the early 1960s working with Cecil Taylor and co-founding the Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association (JCOA). The resulting JCOA self-titled album ...

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Karen Mantler: Business is Bad

Read "Business is Bad" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 29, 2014

It's been nearly two decades since Karen Mantler last released an album under her own name on the XtraWATT label belonging to her similarly coifed mother, pianist/composer Carla Bley, but she's been anything but idle. Work on Bley albums like Appearing Nightly (Watt, 2008), recordings by father Michael Mantler like Folly Seeing All This (ECM, 1993), ...

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Markku Ounaskari / Samuli Mikkonen / Per Jørgensen: Kuara: Psalms and Folk Songs

Read "Kuara: Psalms and Folk Songs" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 2, 2012

While early reference points for jazz and improvised music may have come from the Afro-American tradition, global musicians of the 21st century have increasingly looked to their own cultural touchstones for music that speaks to them at a mitochondrial level. If music is a reflection of who we are and what we experience, then it only ...

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Michael Mantler: For Two

Read "For Two" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 13, 2012

Se risulta evidente che è la puntigliosa scrittura di Mantler a determinare le strutture, le dinamiche e il senso musicale complessivo dei singoli episodi, bisognerebbe anche capire quali pronunce, enfasi, coloriture, vibrazioni sono concesse e dovute all'improvvisazione dei due interpreti. Ogni composizione (alcune di brevità aforistica quasi weberniana, altre sviluppate in modo più dilatato e narrativo) ...

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For Two

By Michael Mantler

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2011

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Article: Book Review

Amy C. Beal: Carla Bley

by Chris May
December 4, 2011

Carla Bley Amy C. Beal Softcover, 114 pages University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252078187 2011 Remarkably, this is the first detailed, published study of the career and music of Carla Bley, the distinguished composer, keyboardist, band leader and activist. It is the seventh volume in the University of ...

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Article: Interview

Barry Guy: Striving For Absolute Spontaneity

by Maxim Micheliov
May 31, 2011

Barry Guy seems to be one of the most convincing figures in a long line of contemporary innovators whose discoveries possess everlasting value. Being a diverse improviser, a bassist of exceptional technique, an accomplished composer and a big band leader, this artist amazes by the scope of his interests and his variety of his accomplishments.