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Sun Ra Quartet in Italy, 1978
by Robert Dugan
The poet T.S. Eliot said “Mankind cannot take too much reality." Some people feel the same about keyboard player, bandleader and composer Sun Ra. Approaching Ra's output, both concert and studio recordings, can be daunting even for the initiated. Because the music was originally released in haphazard fashion, and has gone in and out of print ...
Basso & Valdambrini, maestri del jazz moderno in Italia
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' un ricordo lontano, non riesco a dargli una data precisa, immagino attorno al 1990. All'Alpheus di Roma si faceva ancora jazz e mi recai a vedere Oscar Valdambrini e Gianni Basso di nuovo assieme, in compagnia di Dino Piana e suo figlio Franco. Il nome di Valdambrini era sempre pronunciato con profondo rispetto dai trombettisti ...
Stunt Records: Re/Defining Mainstream
by Jakob Baekgaard
In Denmark, Stunt Records is the jazz label which appeals to the widest audience. The music it releases could be characterised as mainstream jazz, but it doesn't have the negative connotations that sometimes go with the term. It simply means that the label knows how to combine adventurousness and accessibility. When it comes to genre, the ...
Saxophone and Drum duets: rue victor masse; Control This; Common Denominator; Two in NYC.
by John Sharpe
Ray Warleigh rue victor masse psi 2008 Michael Blake / Kresten Osgood Control This Clean Feed 2009 Bonnie Kane / Federico Ughi Common Denominator W.O.O. Music ...
Foot Job Band and Tongs: between porno, rock and a jazz place
by Mark Corroto
Back in 1980s and early 1990s in New York, musicians were reinventing jazz and the “downtown scene," as it was called, was focused on the The Knitting Factory club. Artists like saxophonists John Zorn, John Lurie and Thomas Chapin, guitarist Marc Ribot and cellist Tom Cora became famous. While they were schooled in the traditional, their ...
Lionel Hampton Centennial
by Laurel Gross
Lionel HamptonCentennial CelebrationPablo/Telarc - Concord2009 Lionel Hampton Big BandThe European Concerts, 1953-1954Fremeaux & Associes2009 Lionel HamptonMostly BluesNimbus Records2009 Straight out of ...
Young Trumpets: Ben Holmes and Sun Trios
by Elliott Simon
Ben Holmes TrioBen Holmes TrioSelf Released2009 Sun TrioTime is NowCam Jazz2009 Young creative musicians are the lifeblood of any art form and these two contrasting trumpet trio releases from disparate ...
String Theory: Dissonance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder & If You Should Go
by John Sharpe
The Dom Minasi String Quartet Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Konnex Records 2009 Tomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult If You Should Go Cadence Jazz Records 2008 Guitarist ...
Chris Welcome / Shayna Dulberger Twofer: Refrain & The Push-Pull Quartet
by John Sharpe
Chris Welcome Refrain Empty Room Music 2009 The Push-Pull Quartet At the Stroke of Twelve Tigerasylum Records 2008 Brooklyn shows some similarities with the fertile Chicago scene ...
Three for Xmas
by A. Henkin
Wynton MarsalisChristmas Jazz JamSomerset Entertainment2009 Trio WestPlays Holiday Songs, Vol. 2Yummyhouse2009 Carla BleyCarla's Christmas CarolsECM2009 Recording Christmas music, or an entire album ...
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