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Jazzkaar 2017
by Martin Longley
Jazzkaar 2017 Tallinn, Estonia April 21-30, 2017 Jazzkaar covers most territories. This exceptional 10-day festival presents the best players on the indigenous Estonian scene, imports big-name acts from the USA, and also invites some choice artists from around the rest of Europe. Some shows represent jazz in mainstream mode, whilst ...
Nguyen Le & Ngo Hong Quang: Ha Noi Duo
by Ian Patterson
After exploring the pop culture of the 1960s/1970s in Songs of Freedom (ACT Music, 2011) and paying big-band tribute to Pink Floyd's iconic album on Celebrating The Dark Side of the Moon (ACT Music, 2014), French guitarist/producer Nguyên Lê returns to explore his Vietnamese ancestry on Hà Nôi Duo, with vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Ngô Hồng Quang and several ...
Improvised Music Company@25, Various Artists At Sugar Club
by Ian Patterson
Improvised Music Company@25 Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland November 26, 2016 It was an appropriately festive atmosphere in the Sugar Club to mark Improvised Music Company's twenty fifth birthday celebrations. Older musicians, perhaps just starting out a quarter of a century ago, rubbed shoulders with the current generation of aspiring ...
Arnold Ludvig Sextet: Iceland
by Dave Wayne
Situated in the North Atlantic, roughly equidistant from Scotland, Norway, and Iceland, the Faeroe Islands are one of the last places one would expect to find a thriving international jazz scene populated with world-class improvisers and a record label dedicated to documenting all of the action. Tutl Records, founded in 1977 by the Danish jazz musician ...
Henri Texier: Sky Dancers
by Angelo Leonardi
Torna Henri Texier, leggenda del jazz transalpino, con l'ultima mutazione del gruppo iniziato con Francois Corneloup al baritono e il figlio Sébastien al contralto. I due sassofonisti erano nell'organico dello Strada Sextet ((V)ivre, Label Bleu 2005), hanno animato il più recente Hope Quartet (con il batterista Louis Moutin) e li ritroviamo assieme qui, accanto al chitarrista ...
Michel Benita: "sono proprio un figlio degli anni '60/'70"
by Paolo Peviani
All About Jazz: Dopo due album come sideman, al fianco di Andy Sheppard, il tuo primo album da leader con l'ECM. Com'è andata? Michel Benita: La prima registrazione con Andy Sheppard, Trio Libero, mi ha in effetti offerto l'occasione di incontrare Manfred Eicher. La comunicazione con lui è stata subito facile. Aveva già ascoltato ...
Michael Gibbs: Still Pushing The Envelope
by Ian Patterson
In a career spanning well over fifty years, veteran composer/arranger Michael Gibbs has chalked up a truly impressive range of credits, from Mahavishnu Orchestra to Jaco Pastorius, from Gary Burton to John Scofield and from Kenny Wheeler to Norma Winstone. The Zimbabwe-born maestro has worked with the very best jazz musicians on both sides of the ...
Michael Gibbs & The NDR Big Band: Play a Bill Frisell Set List / In My View
by Ian Patterson
Though his recording career dates back to the early 1960s, Zimbabwe-born arranger, composer and musician Michael Gibbs hasn't always been as prolific as a leader as he might have been. Five albums in the first half the 1970 represented his most industrious period of creativity, as teaching, television and film work and arranging for a surprisingly ...
Time in Jazz 2015: "Ali"
by Libero Farnè
Berchidda e Nord Sardegna 8-16.08.2015 “Ali" era il titolo della ventottesima edizione di Time in Jazz. «Parlando di “Ali" -afferma il direttore artistico Paolo Fresu -il nostro pensiero non poteva non andare all'Icaro di Henry Matisse, raffigurato in una delle venti lastre che compongono il libro “Jazz," che diviene protagonista e musa ispiratrice ...
Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu
by John Kelman
With only four records released as a leader on ECM, it may seem a little early to release a “best of" disc for drummer Manu Katché. But having since moved on to fellow German label ACT for Live in Concert, while Touchstone for Manu is only being released in North America in the summer of 2015, ...
