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Verona
By Myra Melford
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Released: 2012
Track listing:
The Cloth
1. The Cloth - 5:44; 2. Via Talciona - 22:32; 3. Dust to Dust (part 1) - 9:59; 4. Omega - 9:49; 5. Long Goodbye - 7:02.
Verona Skyscraper
1. Skyscraper Mutiny - 11:41; 2. Crossdresser - 13:23; 3. Testament - 23:44.
Is Jazz Dead? Or Is It Just Pining for the Fjords?
by Duncan Heining
Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address?)Stuart Nicholson288 pages, softcoverISBN: 978-0415975834Routledge2005Stuart Nicholson's Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved To A New Address?) came out in 2005 and has proved a remarkably successful book for both author and his publisher. ...
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012
by Ted Harms
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...
Art Lande: Revealing the Infinite
by Florence Wetzel
Born in New York City on February 5, 1947, pianist and drummer Art Lande has been a font of creativity throughout his long and multifaceted career. Lande grew up in Long Island and started studying piano at age four; he attended Williams College, then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969. During the early ...
John Geggie / Lorne Lofsky / Joe Sullivan / Jim Doxas: Ottawa, Canada, May 26, 2012
by John Kelman
John Geggie / Lorne Lofsky / Joe Sullivan / Jim DoxasGeggie Concert SeriesNAC Fourth Stage, Ottawa, CanadaMay 26, 2012For his final show of the 2011/2012 Geggie Concert Series, Ottawa bassist John Geggie put together a group of Canadian musicians who are all deserving of broader international recognition. A down-the-middle mainstream jazz ...
Trio M: The Guest House
by AAJ Italy Staff
La formula è quella canonica del trio con piano-basso e batteria, ma la classe dei musicisti è tale e tanta da generare un avvincente flusso sonoro che fluttua liberamente. Già il brano iniziale è paradigmatico di una fluida ridefinizione del modello seguito, con sontuosi contrasti fra linee cantabili ed armonizzazioni scure e dissonanti. Qui basso e ...
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris: Verona
by AAJ Italy Staff
Di Butch Morris non ce n'è mai abbastanza. Sono passati la bellezza di 27 anni dall'ormai leggendario Current Trends in Racism in Modern America, che il primo febbraio del 1985, eseguito da un ensemble di dieci elementi (tra i quali Frank Lowe, Tom Cora e John Zorn), inaugurò il filone delle Conduction. 27 anni sono lunghi ...
Hera: Where My Complete Beloved Is
by Eyal Hareuveni
It may be symbolic that the albums of the innovative Polish ensemble Hera are released by the label Multikulti. After all, the label's name follows Don Cherry's all-embracing vision of a new world music, a vision where distant and foreign traditions enrich each other, artificial genre distinctions and geographical boundaries are blurred, and stereotypical divisions between ...
Drummer Matt Wilson Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!
Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, ...
Matt Wilson: Have Drums, Will Travel
by Lawrence Peryer
Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, ...
