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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mike Westbrook

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mike Westbrook

All About Jazz is celebrating Mike Westbrook's birthday today! Mike Westbrook has led, and composed for, a succession of Big Bands and small groups since the early 1960\'s. He has toured extensively throughout Europe and further afield and made 40 albums. His principal compositions for Jazz Orchestra include Citadel/Room 315 featuring John Surman, On Duke\'s Birthday ...

Article: Album Review

Ferdinando Faraò & Artchipel Orchestra: Play Soft Machine

Read "Play Soft Machine" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi


Rivisitare materiale altrui è sempre un'operazione ad alto rischio. Soprattutto quando si decide di riarrangiare composizioni che si considerano intoccabili o che raramente sono state oggetto di riscritture successive alle originali. Parliamo del repertorio dei Soft Machine e, in particolare, di quello risalente al periodo 1969-1971, stagione irripetibile e generosa di idee e situazioni messe in ...

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Article: Live Review

Take Five UK 2015

Read "Take Five UK 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Take Five UK Edition X Bore Place Kent, England February 9 -14, 2015 Nestled in the heart of the Kent countryside is Bore Place, an organic farm that dates to the seventeenth century. Here, the mobile phone signal is unreliable and internet connection is dickey at best. The only sound ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Osborne: Dawn

Read "Dawn" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Alto saxophonist Mike Osborne's career was relatively short--barely 20 years between his first gigs with the pioneering Mike Westbrook Band and his retirement from the music scene because of mental health problems in 1982. His discography is lengthy, but albums as leader are rare. Dawn draws together recordings from three relatively early sessions in Osborne's career--early, ...

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Article: Album Review

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Brooklyn Babylon

Read "Brooklyn Babylon" reviewed by Luca Canini


Che Brooklyn sia il cuore musicale della New York del terzo millennio è ormai un dato di fatto. Le spietate leggi del mercato immobiliare, da una decina d'anni o giù di lì, hanno costretto improvvisatori e jazzisti ad attraversare l'East River, in fuga da una Manhattan sempre più cara. Brooklyn nuovo rifugio e nuova frontiera, dunque, ...

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Article: Album Review

I Compani: Verdi 2.00

Read "Verdi 2.00" reviewed by Libero Farnè


I Compani, affiatata compagine olandese diretta da Bo van de Graaf, è ben nota per aver affrontato a più riprese la musica di Nino Rota e per aver reinterpretato in anni recenti L'ultimo tango a Parigi di Gato Barbieri. In occasione del secondo centenario della nascita di Giuseppe Verdi, il gruppo ha pensato bene di misurarsi ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9

Read "TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Anat Fort / Susanna Torben Waldorff Wah Wah / Norma WInstone Partisans TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 For the last three days in Ottawa before heading to Montréal for five days of the Festival ...

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Article: Interview

Canterbury e dintorni secondo Ferdinando Faraò

Read "Canterbury e dintorni secondo Ferdinando Faraò" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi


Fasano, solare cittadina pugliese in provincia di Brindisi, è da 17 anni teatro di un festival jazz eterodosso e controcorrente che, oltre a valorizzare talenti locali e a tenere alta la bandiera del jazz italiano (nel corso degli anni la rassegna ha ospitato, tra gli altri, Franco Cerri, Antonello Salis, Roberto Ottaviano, Franco D'Andrea, Stefano Bollani, ...

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Article: Album Review

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Read "Unrecorded Beam" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Uno scrittore/pensatore originale e decentrato come Henry David Toureau, un musicista altrettanto originale come Billy Bottle--multistrumentista alla corte di Mike Westbrook, sentimentalmente colluso con la Canterbury Scene -, un'etichetta d'avanguardia e intransigente come Leo Records, ed ecco servito Unrecorded Beam. Unrecorded Beam è il senso della vita visto attraverso la natura, i suoi ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper

Read "Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper" reviewed by Colin Harper


Exclusive extract adapted from Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond By Colin Harper. Published (UK and US) March 26, 2014 by Jawbone Press “British jazz is awash with young talent which, given a healthy set of circumstances and a fair share of work, could produce a generation of ...


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