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Intervista a Michel Portal

Read "Intervista a Michel Portal" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Incontriamo Michel Portal all'hotel Lagorai di Cavalese dopo una mattinata passata su e giù per le montagne a camminare per raggiungere “i suoni delle dolomiti" dove appunto Portal e Sclavis erano l'appuntamento clou della manifestazione [per leggere l'intervista a Louis Sclavis clicca qui]. Portal è un po' deluso perché non era previsto un simile freddo e ...

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Article: Live Review

Gent Jazz Festival 2011: Days 1-4

Read "Gent Jazz Festival 2011: Days 1-4" reviewed by Martin Longley


Days 1-4 | Days 5-8 Gent Jazz Festival Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 7-10, 2011 There has been a radical change to the Gent Jazz Festival site since last year. The historic Bijloke zone remains historic, but it now has a new concrete 'n' ...

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Article: Live Review

North Sea Jazz Festival, July 8-10, 2011

Read "North Sea Jazz Festival, July 8-10, 2011" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


North Sea Jazz FestivalJuly 8-10, 2011AhoyRotterdam, The Netherlands The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands is staggering in size, touted as the world's largest indoor jazz festival and that's certainly a good bet. With 13 stages running from late afternoon until the early morning hours, it's far more than a ...

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News: Event

Jazz at Chateau Palmer with Michel Portal and Yaron Herman on March 25

Jazz at Chateau Palmer with Michel Portal and Yaron Herman on March 25

Listen to Château Palmer, a Margaux great growth, and its Alter Ego: the 2010 vintage interpreted by Michel Portal and Yaron Herman performing at a concert given at Château Palmer on Friday, 25 March 2011, broadcasted live on France Musique and on the Web A première and a preview during En Primeur week! In March 2010, ...

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Article: Album Review

Michel Portal: Bailador

Read "Bailador" reviewed by Charles Walker


For all the lip service paid to the idea of jazz as a universal language, the modern performing landscape is still, by and large, segregated into separate continental categories, each with a host of attendant stereotypes. For every Randy Weston or David Murray, musicians who have made studious efforts at cross-border communication, there are dozens of ...

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Baïlador

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2010

Article: Album Review

Michel Portal: Turbulence

Read "Turbulence" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Musicista vero, autentico purosangue, Michel Portal non ama andare in sala d'incisione. E' cosa nota, che viene ricordata anche nelle note di copertina di questo CD, e che non collima perfettamente con le logiche dell'industria discografica. “Se Portal non registra nuovi album, ristampiamo un album del passato", devono aver pensato alla Le Chant du Monde. Tenendo ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Frode Gjerstad: A Feral Storm from Norway

Read "Frode Gjerstad: A Feral Storm from Norway" reviewed by Clifford Allen


In February 2010, Norwegian alto saxophonist and clarinetist Frode Gjerstad took the collective Circulasione Totale Orchestra to the United States for a few select performances, the first time the multinational group had been convened on American soil and a massive undertaking and feat of organization for the 62-year-old improviser. The orchestra consists of musicians from Norway, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities

Read "Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities" reviewed by Clifford Allen


The city of Chicago continues to find itself in a jazz renaissance well into the waxing years of the 21st century--a status that many of America's cities can't easily lay claim to. With the pedigrees of individual improvisers and composers like reedman Ken Vandermark and flutist Nicole Mitchell well established in the 1990s, a slightly younger ...

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Article: Album Review

Andy Emler: Crouch, Touch, Engage

Read "Crouch, Touch, Engage" reviewed by Jean-Marc Gelin


With Crouch, Touch, Engage, Andy Elmer is back. He is one of the most influential pianist/composers to have appeared on the French scene in the last 15 years, having explored all the possible links between jazz and rock. He has collaborated with some major jazz artists, including (Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Trilok Gurtu and the late ...


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