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Une, Deux, Trois: Solo, Duo and Trio Improvisation from Europe
by Clifford Allen
At one point in time, the term “European Improvisation" meant something quite specific, carrying with it an air of otherness to American jazz audiences, solidarity to European jazz audiences, and presented rarified and sometimes unruly music based on folk, classical and open forms. In the ensuing decades, the world has grown a bit smaller, and intercontinental ...
New Voices: Sarah Manning, John Escreet, Kneebody
by J Hunter
Jazz is like the human body. It needs fresh air, constant activity and a steady stream of nutrients to stay hale and hearty. Conversely, if all the genre does is sit in a comfy chair and try to live on what came before, it becomes sedentary, incurious and--ultimately--self destructive. Fortunately, the young keep jazz active and ...
Dave Liebman: Live / As Always and Quest for Freedom
by John Kelman
Quite possibly the hardest-working saxophonist--if not the hardest working musician, period--these days, not a month goes by when there doesn't seem to be a new release from veteran jazzer Dave Liebman.In the twelve months since autumn 2009 alone, Liebman has been spotted in freer terrain, collaborating with another active saxophonist, Evan Parker, ...
Eclectic electric jazz comes of age
by Mark Corroto
Back in the 1980s, the marriage of jazz and electronics produced the unfortunate, creativity destroying “jazz fusion" genre. That was because drum machines, synthesizer produced horn lines and computer generated hand claps were often too perfect. A sort of “sanitized for your protection" version of motel drinking glasses. Think about the then innovative trumpeter Miles Davis' ...
In Praise of John Russell
by John Eyles
English guitarist John Russell is from the wave of free improvisers who came after the so-called first generation typified by such “founding fathers" as guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist Evan Parker, trombonist Paul Rutherford and drummer John Stevens. In his teens, Russell played at the Little Theatre Club, the cradle of free improv in London, and took ...
Altri/Ritmi d’estate 2010 - Danzare è d’obbligo sotto il soul-leone!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come da tradizione, AllAboutJazz Italia stila per voi una lista di dischi tutti da ballare e vivere in questa estate davvero torrida. Tra nu-soul e elettronica, granite funk e nostalgie da spalmare sulle spalle per non scottarsi, esotismi da ombrellone e notti di lustrini che sembrano stelle, tuffiamoci quindi dentro questi Altri/Ritmi d'estate! AA.VV. Music for ...
Soul e fusion oltre cortina nella ristampe della Vampi Soul!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Marta Kubišová Ne! The Soul of Marta Kubišová Vampi Soul - distr. Goodfellas Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Se sulla carta l'idea di una cantante soul cecoslovacca rischia di apparire bizzarra quanto quella di un gondoliere tibetano, bastano le prime note di “Tak Dej Se K Nam A Projdem Svet" per proiettare l'ascoltatore in un mondo nel quale, ...
Rag, Saddle and All: Curlew and George Cartwright / Davu Seru
by Clifford Allen
Saxophonist and composer George Cartwright might not be an oft-repeated name in creative improvised music, but he should garner a weighted whistle whenever he does crop up. Raised in Mississippi and now calling Minneapolis home, Cartwright was co-leader of the seminal New York post-RIO/squirrely downtown jazz ensemble Curlew, alongside cellist Tom Cora, throughout the 1980s and ...
A Triple Bill of Keys & Drums
by Robert Iannapollo
Three albums by keyboards and drums duos--two of them recorded in the early 1990s, the third in the noughties--demonstrate the wide and varied territory this pared down instrumentation can inhabit. Andrew Hill / Chico HamiltonDreams Come TrueJoyous Shout!2008 On paper, the duet of late pianist Andrew Hill and drummer Chico ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Apti & Real People
by Robert Iannapollo
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak CoalitionAptiInnova2008 Anders Mogensen/Rudresh Mahanthappa/Kasper Tranberg/Jacob Anderskov/Carlo DeRosaReal PeopleBlackout2008 Over the past ten years alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has succeeded where others have failed in fusing Indian musical traditions into modern jazz. His sinewy lines, ...
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