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Vicenza Jazz 2018 - Prima Parte
by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz Varie sedi 10--20.05.2018 “The Birth of the Youth" era l'allusivo sottotitolo della ventitreesima edizione del festival vicentino, come sempre sotto la direzione di Riccardo Brazzale. Il tentativo, affrontato anche dalla grafica neo-psichedelica del manifesto e dai saggi di vari autori nel prezioso quaderno, era quello di celebrare il ...
Bill Carrothers: Red Planet
by Mike Jurkovic
Since the '80s, Michigan pianist Bill Carrothers has inventively and tirelessly fashioned himself an enviable discography, which includes 2008's Home Row (Pirouet Records, 2008) with Gary Peacock and Bill Stewart and 2010's tribute to revered trumpeter Clifford Brown Joy Spring (Pirouet Records, 2010 ). A critical fave on the touring circuit, he's highlighted gigs the world ...
Andrew Kushnir: Influences
by Don Phipps
Judging from the album cover, a coffee-filled cup on a drum, one might anticipate that drummer Andrew Kushnir's debut album, Influences, would be a hard charging affair. And Kushnir and his trio (Ryan Slatko on piano and Rick Rosato on bass) do not disappoint. The trio offers up some head-bobbing jazz at its finest.
Band Ambition: Sherrie Maricle and Diva
by Richard J Salvucci
In the iconic photo A Great Day in Harlem (1958), bandleader and pianist Count Basie has taken a seat on the curb. Eleven neighborhood kids and one ringer, Taft Jordan Jr, are seated single file to Basie's right. Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams stand behind the kids, chatting. They are bookended, appropriately, by Oscar Pettiford ...
Umbria Jazz Winter 2014
by Libero Farnè
Umbria Jazz Winter 22 Orvieto -27.12.2014-01.01.2015 “Fabrizio Bosso, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu... Anat Cohen, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano... vi aspettano a Orvieto per Umbria Jazz Winter." Più o meno di questo tenore era lo spot pubblicitario trasmesso per tutto dicembre sulle stazioni radio della RAI, uno dei media partner del festival; i ...
Roberto Gatto Perfect Trio
by Neri Pollastri
Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 22.02.2014 Poteva non essere scontato che l'incontro tra un batterista come Roberto Gatto--veterano del jazz nostrano, ben piantato nella tradizione ancorché aperto a molteplici esperienze--e un musicista inquieto e sperimentatore come Alfonso Santimone potesse avere esiti indiscutibilmente positivi, essendo la diversità tra i due ...
Claudio Cojaniz - Franco Feruglio: Blue Africa
by Neri Pollastri
Il pianista Claudio Cojaniz rinnova la sua pratica del duo con il contrabbasso--frequentata con successo oltre vent'anni orsono assieme a Giovanni Maier nel mitico album Due--e lo fa con un suo antico compagno di strada, Franco Feruglio, che nel frattempo ha accumulato esperienze nei più diversi territori della musica--dalla classica contemporanea a Ludovico Einaudi, dalla musica ...
David Ake: Bridges
by Dan Bilawsky
Experimentalist composer Gavin Bryars once proclaimed that “music history has flowed under the bridges for many years." That particular quote adorns the inside flap of pianist David Ake's Bridges which, like Bryars' statement itself, contains many a mystery about music, bridges and history. The pieces that Ake presents herein are modernistic, wide-ranging and wholly original. Melodic ...
Old Time Musketry: Different Times
by Dave Wayne
Brooklyn-based Old Time Musketry is a band whose moniker foreshadows one aspect of the sound it's after, steeped in folk music and Americana. But the quartet's debut, Different Times, contains so much more. First and foremost, Old Time Musketry is a jazz quartet. Sure there's quite a bit of accordion and clarinet on this recording, but ...
Maroney / Ilgenfritz / Niescier / Drury: Mind Games
by Eyal Hareuveni
This quartet blurs the borders between orthodox and unorthodox forms of playing, between cerebral, intriguing music making and playful, harmonic articulations, and between sonic explorations of timbral variations, colors and shades, and organic, fluid textures. All these contradictions are blended into a mysterious kaleidoscope of nuanced details, a musical universe of a unique quartet with a ...
