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Kip Hanrahan, Ingrid Jensen and other great new releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
The bonanza of new releases goes on. So let's dive right in and find out more about the much-awaited return of Kip Hanrahan; music inspired by fictional or real whales (courtesy of David Crowell & Simon Jermyn and Garth Stevenson); a heart-felt Kenny Wheeler Tribute by Ingrid Jensen and Steve Treseler, the second installment of Nicole ...
October Revolution 2018: John Zorn, The music of Legendary Hasaan with Christian McBride, Wolf Eyes & Marshall Allen, and more!
ACCLAIMED PHILADELPHIA FESTIVAL EXPANDS LINEUP The October Revolution of Jazz & Contemporary Music, a four-day international music festival presented by Ars Nova Workshop, in partnership with FringeArts, has confirmed several additional artists for its 2018 lineup as well as announcing single-day tickets. Featuring some of the most groundbreaking and uncategorizable artists in modern music, Ars Nova ...
Eamon Dilworth: Viata
by Karl Ackermann
From its Romanian orgin, Viata translates to “Life." It is the new, independently produced album from Eamon Dilworth and his nameless quintet. Trumpeter Dilworth is not well-known in the U.S. but has received numerous awards in his native Australia. He has studied with some top brass talent including Lew Soloff, Ambrose Akinmusire, Dave Douglas and Avishai ...
Kirk Knuffke/Ben Goldberg: Uncompahgre
by Troy Dostert
Two of the most in-demand horn players in the current creative music scene, cornetist Kirk Knuffke and clarinetist Ben Goldberg delight in making music that combines a deep respect for the history of jazz with an unmistakable spirit of adventure and risk. Both are seasoned veterans with nothing to prove, and they can do it all, ...
Myra Melford: Alive In The House Of Saints Part 1
by Vincenzo Roggero
All'inizio degli anni novanta Myra Melford, Lindsey Horner e Reggie Nicholson piombarono sul mondo del jazz con un piano trio che miscelava come pochi tradizione e modernità, blues e avanguardia, gospel e sofisticata scrittura. Ciò era percepibile già in Jump (1990) e Now & Now (1992) i primi due album in studio per Enemy, ma è ...
Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, Miya Masaoka: M Z M
by Stefano Merighi
Magnifico trio di veterane della musica improvvisata che superano se stesse con una musica acuminata, provocatoria, anarchica ma dall'assoluto rigore interno. Vale a dire che pur infrangendo continuamente le regole del bon ton musicale e rischiando assai nel rifiuto quasi assiomatico del discorso narrativo, il trio trova con naturalezza una conversazione paritaria ma soprattutto sensata, cpunta ...
Culture Clubs: Part IV: When Jazz Met Europe
by Karl Ackermann
The Geography of Jazz--When Jazz Met Europe In 2004 Maureen Anderson, a researcher at Illinois State University contributed a dissertation to the journal, African American Review, titled The White Reception of Jazz in America. Ostensibly, her article deals with stories published in high profile periodicals and journals from 1917 and into the 1930s, written by white ...
Paula Shocron: Paths to a New Sound
by Jakob Baekgaard
When Werner X. Uehlinger, the founder of Hat Hut Records, was asked about a statement on why he liked Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron's music, the answer was clear, short and succinct: “The quality of surprise." Uehlinger discovered Shocron's music through her work with the SLD Trio and he liked their debut Anfitrión so much that the ...
Tiger Trio: Unleashed
by John Sharpe
Three leading exponents of their instruments unite on Unleashed. Since their first collaboration in Vancouver in 2009, French bassist Joëlle Léandre and American flutist Nicole Mitchell have enjoyed a simpatico outlook, as evidenced by a clutch of Rogue Art releases including Before After (2011) and Sisters Where (2014), as well as Flowing Stream (Leo, 2014). Joining ...
Alive In The House Of Saints Part 1
By Myra Melford
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Evening Might Still; Now & Now 1; Between Now & Then; Parts I & II Frank Lloyd Wright Goes West To Rest.
