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Michel Benita Ethics: River Silver

by John Kelman
February 22, 2016

It's no secret that music is something that can dissolve borders, transcend cultures, and speak with a language understood by all. That the decreasing size of the world has made it possible for artists from disparate countries to collaborate and create music that is truly greater than the sum of its parts--imbued not just with the ...

Article: Live Review

Andy Sheppard Quartet At The Mac

by Ian Patterson
October 13, 2015

Andy Sheppard Quartet The Mac Belfast, N. Ireland October 9, 2015 Three years on from his Belfast Festival performance with Trio Libero, saxophonist Andy Sheppard returned to the Northern Irish capital with his new quartet comprised of that trio plus Norwegian guitarist/sound sculptor Eivind Aarset. That the gig went ahead ...

Article: Interview

Andy Sheppard: Tales From the Bristol Underground Jazz Revolution

by Ian Patterson
May 5, 2015

"Jazz has always been an underground thing. It doesn't have the power and might of opera, but it should," says Andy Sheppard, shortly after the UK premier of Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015) at the Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival. “Everyone in the music industry has a respect for jazz music, and they should, I think, ...

Article: Album Review

Andy Sheppard Quartet: Surrounded By Sea

Read "Surrounded By Sea" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
May 5, 2015

Saxophonist/composer Andy Sheppard has found a home in ECM. It's maybe not the perfect home for an artist as eclectic as Sheppard, for it's hard to see some of his other projects--notably the Scofield/Lovanoesque quartet Hotel Bristol--fitting in with the ECM aesthetic. Still, Sheppard's melodic improvisational approach and the airy lyricism on Movements in Color (ECM, ...

Article: Live Review

Bergamo Jazz 2015

by Libero Farnè
March 31, 2015

Sotto la direzione artistica di Enrico Rava per il quarto anno consecutivo, Bergamo Jazz 2015 ha proposto un ampio ventaglio di espressioni jazzistiche, ognuna delle quali fortemente caratterizzata; quasi a ribadire la natura poliedrica di questa musica, la ragione stessa della sua sopravvivenza, vale a dire la sua tentacolare commistione di generi, approcci e forme diverse, ...

Article: Live Review

Andy Sheppard Quartet at Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
March 15, 2015

Andy Sheppard Quartet Colston Hall Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival Bristol March 7, 2015 A “local hero" is how the emcee described saxophonist/composer Andy Sheppard. Bristol resident Sheppard is neither immortal nor a demi-God, but he is uber-talented and a warrior of sorts; a road warrior who has clocked up ...

Article: Live Review

Garana Jazz Festival 2014

by Adriana Carcu
August 1, 2014

Garana Jazz Festival Wolf's Meadow Garana, Romania July 10-13, 2014 One of Europe's most visited festivals, taking place on a meadow over 300 ft. high in the Western Carpathians, just had its 18th anniversary. The lineup, a brand mark of the festival director, Marius Giura, combined again tradition ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzdor Berlin 2013: Berlin, Germany, June 5-8, 2013

by Henning Bolte
June 21, 2013

Jazzdor Berlin 2013Kesselhaus in der KulturbrauereiBerlin, GermanyJune 5-8, 2013The Jazzdor festival is part of Berlin's still highly attractive cultural and artistic climate of the post- wall era. The seventh edition of this four-day festival took place during the first week of June, 2013 at the Kesselhaus of a former brewery in ...

Article: Album Review

Vincent Peirani: Thrill Box

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by Bruce Lindsay
April 27, 2013

Thrill Box is Vincent Peirani's debut release on the ACT Music label. Its title refers to Peirani's instrument of choice, the accordion. For many, the accordion springs most readily to mind as an East European folk instrument, for others it evokes images of Morris dancers on warm English spring evenings (although that's more usually the concertina) ...

Album

Back in Town

By Michel Benita

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Released: 2012
Track listing: CD 1: 01. Dawn (Romano) - 5:10; 02. Sud-Ouest Jump (Ferris) - 6:06; 03. Calabrian Nights (Ferris) - 8:35; 04. Waiting (Benita) - 5:56; 05. Country Boy (Benita) - 4:36; 06. Blue Bambu Blue (Romano) - 4:56; 07. Lulu's Back in Town (Dubin/Warren) - 7:14. CD 2: 01. Urtext's Blues (Fresu) - 3:28; 02. Dixie (Benita) - 5:21; 03. Tempo (Romano) - 7:06; 04. Animal Love (Ferris) - 9:15; 05. Station to Station (Fresu) - 8:06; 06. Ready to Go (Ferris) - 4:24; 07. On a Misty Night (Dameron) - 8:51.