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Article: Album Review

Henri Texier: Sky Dancers

Read "Sky Dancers" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 17, 2016

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 ...

Article: Interview

Michel Benita: "sono proprio un figlio degli anni '60/'70"

by Paolo Peviani
March 21, 2016

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 ...

Article: Interview

Michael Gibbs: Still Pushing The Envelope

by Ian Patterson
November 12, 2015

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 ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Michael Gibbs & The NDR Big Band: Play a Bill Frisell Set List / In My View

by Ian Patterson
November 12, 2015

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 ...

Article: Live Review

Time in Jazz 2015: "Ali"

by Libero Farnè
August 24, 2015

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 ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu

by John Kelman
August 5, 2015

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, ...

Article: Album Review

Vincent Peirani: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic IV: Accordion Night

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by Bruce Lindsay
May 28, 2015

Exactly what went on at the Berlin Philharmonie's Kammermusiksaal during the evening of 13 February 2015? The venue played host to a Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic concert--the latest in the series, curated by the ACT Music label boss Siggi Loch. Each of these concerts has a single thematic focus and as the title of Jazz At ...

Article: Rediscovery

Trilok Gurtu: Bad Habits Die Hard

by John Kelman
April 16, 2015

Trilok GurtuBad Habits Die HardArt of Groove2014 (1996) Well, it's been a good couple weeks since the last Rediscovery, leaving the pile of potential choices even higher than usual. So what better way to resume operations than to revisit an album that already sounded terrific when it was first released in ...

Album

Nguyen Le With Michael Gibbs & NDR Bigband: Celebrating The Dark Side Of The Moon

By Nguyen Le

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Speak to Me; Inspire; Breathe; On The Run; Time; Magic Spells; Hear This Whispering; The Great Gig In The Sky; Gotta Go Sometime; Money; Us and Them; Purple or Blue; Any Color You Like; Brain Damage; Eclipse.

Article: Extended Analysis

Nguyen Le With Michael Gibbs & NDR Bigband: Celebrating The Dark Side Of The Moon

by Ian Patterson
October 23, 2014

It's a bold concept; take Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon (Harvest, 1973) and reinterpret it in a big band jazz setting. With upwards of forty million copies sold, every note, every nuance of Floyd's eighth album is so firmly entrenched in the minds of the band's legion devotees that to tamper with the ...