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Un ricordo di Giorgio Gaslini
by Marcus A. Woelfle
Nel 1995, mentre si esibiva al Festival monacense “Big Band Meeting -Jazz & More" Giorgio Gaslini, concesse un'intervista a Marcus A. Woelfle. La ECM aveva appena pubblicato Skies of Europe dell'Italian Instabile Orchestra con l'omonima suite di Gaslini che diede lo spunto all'intervista. Per ricordare il pianista da poco scomparso, All About Jazz Italia ripropone questa ...
For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2
by Greg Masters
Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions Sony-Legacy Music, October 2007 “There is no architecture and no build-up. Just a vivid, uninterrupted succession of colors, rhythms and moods." —Arnold Schoenberg, describing his Five Pieces for Orchestra in a letter to Richard Strauss, 1909, quoted in The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2014, Day 2
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State Park Newport, RI Saturday, August 2, 2014 From the first crushing strike against the drums, Brian Blade's heavy hand and swirling rolls captivated the audience attending a rainy installment of the Newport Jazz Festival. Blade led his Fellowship Band through “Stoner Hill," a dour, gray ...
Claudio Fasoli Four: London Tube
by John Kelman
One of the pleasures of traveling to events abroad is the opportunity to learn about musicians who may be established at home, but are deserving of more attention abroad. Such was the case when covering the Fondazione Siena Summer Jazz Workshop 2013 in Siena, Italy, and the chance to experience saxophonist Claudio Fasoli, both in action ...
For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2, a new book by Greg Masters
NEW YORK, NY – Crony Books is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2, by Greg Masters. While For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 1, issued earlier this year, focused on Masters' collected writings on the visual arts, this new volume gathers reviews of music and books, ...
Jazz à Juan 2014
by Jean-Pierre Goffin
54th Jazz à Juan Juan-les-Pins, Antibes France On the sunny Côte d'Azur, Juan-les-Pins offers a jazz festival every year by mixing all-stars bands, and daring to take risks in offering new artists not exclusively from the jazz sphere. Jazz à Juan (Jazz in Juan) is first of all a wonderful site, ...
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic: Sketches of Spain Revisited
by Jack Bowers
One by one, the trio of classic big-band collaborations by Miles Davis and Gil Evans is being rediscovered and reinvented by contemporary jazz ensembles: Miles Ahead, Porgy & Bess and last but not least, the tasteful and picturesque Sketches of Spain, reappraised here by trumpeter Orbert Davis (no relation to Miles) and the splendid Chicago Jazz ...
Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960
by Nenad Georgievski
Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960 William Claxton and Joachim E. Berendt 552 ISBN: 3836544687 Taschen 2013 A single photograph can say and convene more than a thousand words. Although music itself can't be photographed, only a handful of photographers ever got closer to ...
Smoke Sessions: Cyrus Chestnut, Orrin Evans and Eric Reed
by C. Michael Bailey
Cyrus Chestnut Midnight Melodies Smoke Sessions 2014 Elegance and economy characterize Cyrus Chestnut's art. Chestnut's career was the one Kenny Kirkland could have had had Kirkland's fate been different. Chestnut (and Evans and Reed) represent the generation given way to with the passings of Mulgrew Miller and Cedar ...
Tom Chang: Tongue and Groove
by Mark F. Turner
It's a natural extension of New York guitarist Tom Chang's repertoire to combine heavy metal with jazz improvisation in “Spinal Tap/Goes to 11" the opening track of his release Tongue and Groove. Born in South Korea, he moved to Canada with formative teen years listening to rock icons like Joni Mitchell and Led Zeppelin. What comes ...
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