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Mike Reed: The Speed of Change & Proliferation
by Troy Collins
Chicago-based composer, bandleader and percussionist Mike Reed is one of the Windy City's most active young musicians and well-connected music presenters. In addition to leading his own ensembles and working with various collectives, Reed is founder of the Emerging Improvisers Organization, director of the Pitchfork Music Festival and a co-curator of the Chicago Jazz Festival.
El Gallo Rojo: Linee di "Galleggiamento", tra rasoi affilati, standard alieni e insospettabili candori
by AAJ Italy Staff
Già da qualche tempo le produzioni discografiche dell’etichetta/collettivo El Gallo Rojo si stanno segnalando all’attenzione del pubblico e della critica per la vorace originalità e la qualità musicale. Realtà catalizzatrice di forze creative molto eterogenee, El Gallo Rojo continua a produrre dischi di grande interesse [tra l’altro caratterizzati da un progetto grafico forte e riconoscibile] secondo ...
Slightly After the Fact: Mark Murphy's Once to Every Heart / Marc Johnson's Shades of Jade
by Eric J. Iannelli
From the usual vantage, singer Mark Murphy's Once to Every Heart and bassist Marc Johnson's Shades of Jade would seem to have little in common, save for the forename of their bandleaders and the fact that they're both on Universal imprints (Verve and ECM respectively). The first is a vocal album of standard ballads backed by ...
Torna la Ictus di Andrea Centazzo e rivive l'avanguardia storica (ma non solo)
by AAJ Italy Staff
A metà degli anni ’70 tra gli scaffali dei negozi di dischi - quelli più aperti al nuovo - era possibile trovare long playing confezionati in copertine, eleganti, laminate, il più delle volte proiezione visiva della musica che contenevano. Erano i dischi “Ictus”, etichetta fondata nel 1976 dal percussionista Andrea Centazzo, attiva fino al 1984 e ...
Michael Dessen / Cosmologic: Between Shadow and Space / Eyes in the Back of My Head
by Clifford Allen
Somehow it's not at all surprising to read in Michael Dessen's bio that he studied with trombonist George Lewis and pianist Anthony Davis, two of this music's most well known academes. Dessen is a trombonist, composer-improviser and scholar who explores new media arts, the internet and cross-cultural migration through sound. Improvised music has a hard time ...
Duke Ellington: New York New York, The Treasury Shows, Vol. 13 & A Tone Parallel to Harlem
by George Kanzler
Duke Ellington New York New York Storyville 2008 Duke Ellington The Treasury Shows Vol. 13 Storyville 2008 Claude Bolling A Tone Parallel to Harlem Fremeaux and Assoc.
Satoko Fujii: Trace a River, Cloudy Then Sunny & Kuro
by Kurt Gottschalk
Satoko Fujii Trace a River Libra 2008 Junkbox Cloudy then Sunny Libra 2008 Gato Libre Kuro Libra 2008 The ...
Piano Trios: Junior Mance, Steve Elmer, Don Friedman & Frank Hewitt
by Tom Greenland
Junior Mance Live at Café Loup JunGlo 2008 Steve Elmer Fire Down Below self-published 2008 Don Friedman Straight Ahead No Coast Jazz 2008 Frank ...
Effendi: Francois Richard & Alain Bedard
by Martin Longley
Francois Richard Nouvel Orchestra Effendi 2008 Alain Bedard Sphere Reflexion Effendi 2008 The Montreal label Effendi has been operating for nearly a decade, founded by the bassist ...
Solo Piano: Kaori Osawa & Genevieve Foccroulle
by Francis Lo Kee
Kaori Osawa Aluminum Leo 2007 Genevieve Foccroulle Anthony Braxton: Piano Music (1968-2000) Leo 2008 Kaori Osawa's Aluminum, though not a traditional approach to solo piano (if one ...

