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Le Rex: Wild Man / Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba
by Stefano Merighi
Due organici praticamente identici (fiati + batteria) con un ruolo importante riservato alla tuba. Sembrano lontani i tempi in cui questo strumento aveva ritrovato agilità e stupore, sotto le dita di Howard Johnson o Bob Stewart. Ora i fremiti bassi e rugosi dell'ottone glorioso sono esaltati nei ritmi delle musiche di Henry Threadgill ...
Three saxophonists' very different paths since "Propagations"
by John Eyles
Back in 2007, Marc Baron on alto, Bertrand Denzler on tenor and Jean-Luc Guionnet also on alto were three-quarters of the unnamed saxophone quartet that recorded the ground-breaking album Propagations (Potlatch, 2007), alongside Stéphane Rives on soprano. Together, the four reinvented the rule book for a saxophone quartet in the new millennium, ignoring the conventional vocabulary ...
Christmas Roundup 2016: Aguankó, Jeff Collins, & Vinnie Zummo
by Mark Sullivan
It's that time of year again. While some people genuinely love holiday records, others are just looking for some alternative to have available for self-defense against the onslaught of traditional holiday pop music. Regardless of what camp you're in, here are two new releases, plus three that are new to me: Latin jazz, mainstream jazz, bossa ...
Leonard Cohen and His Legacy
by Nenad Georgievski
In recent years, nobody has raged against the dying of the light more spectacularly and thrillingly as singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen. For 50 years he had been telling stories of love, faith, death, despair, solitude, war, politics, and exaltation. Before embarked on a successful and eventful career in the show business he had a successful ...
Blues Spotlight: Robert Finley / Donald Jay Johnson And Gas Blues Band / The King Brothers
by James Nadal
The blues is an essential element in American music, and continues to thrive, with new releases and artists coming out on a regular basis. The three artists spotlighted here are all experienced musicians, and have a genuine affinity for the blues, as it is their inherent music. While one makes his stunning recording debut, the other ...
I racconti dal profondo di Pacorig e De Rossi
by Neri Pollastri
Antichi compagni di numerose avventure, un paio d'anni fa coautori del bel CD Kepos, Giorgio Pacorig e Zeno De Rossi escono adesso per Artesuono con un lavoro in duo, Sleep Talking, che nasce principalmente dal desiderio di suonare assieme e, da parte di Pacorig, di dedicarsi finalmente al solo pianoforte dopo anni nei quali aveva usato ...
Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun & Havana Moon DVD/CD
by Doug Collette
It might be fair to say that any concert appearance by a band with fifty years plus history is an occasion in itself and doubly so (or more) to offer that observation about the Rolling Stones. Who would've guessed in 1963, 1973 or 1983 that the group would not only still be together in 2016, but ...
Jazz for President - Le suite di Delfeayo Marsalis e Ted Nash
by Angelo Leonardi
Gli anni sessanta sono lontani e con essi la controversia su jazz e politica. Com'è noto, la musica è un'arte asemantica e i musicisti non possono trasmettere significati (in questo caso politici) con il linguaggio delle note. Però gli artisti esprimono eventuali scelte ideologiche iscrivendo la loro musica in un quadro semantico più generale, fatto di ...
Allison Miller & Honey Ear Trio: Lean; Swivel
by Doug Collette
Allison Miller may well be the renaissance woman of modern jazz. High-profile mainstream gigs like appearing with the band on Late Night with Seth Myers hardly hint at the diverse complexity of her collaborations and work under own name, most conspicuously including the band Boom Tic Boom. She parses out individual components of her artistry with ...
Bobo Rondelli e Piero Ciampi cantano Livorno
by Neri Pollastri
Piero Ciampi è oggi un nome noto. A lui è intitolato perfino uno dei più importanti concorsi musicali italiani dedicati alla canzone d'autore, che ha da poco celebrato il ventennale. E di lui, della sua storia drammaticamente romanzesca, si sa e si parla spesso. Ma non è sempre stato così: per lungo tempo, anche dopo la ...
