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Article: Book Review

Enrico Bettinello: Storie di Jazz

Read "Enrico Bettinello: Storie di Jazz" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Storie di Jazz Enrico Bettinello 330 Pagine Arcana Uno dei libri più avvincenti sul jazz del 2015 viene dall'editoria italiana. Ne è autore Enrico Bettinello, giornalista tra i più preparati del panorama musicale nazionale. Il suo saggio si impone per vivacità di pensiero e acume critico, nello scandagliare le vicende ...

Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson: Meltframe

Read "Meltframe" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Il primo disco di Mary Halvorson in solo sancisce la piena maturità acquisita dalla chitarrista bostoniana. Un'artista che folgora immediatamente oppure insospettisce, che appare come un'apprendista sempre in fase di studio oppure come una razionale dispensatrice di finezze da tempo metabolizzate. Fin dalle prime sortite in trio, o in gruppi più ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank?

Read "Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank?" reviewed by Geoffrey Wills


The following is an excerpt from “Chapter 2: Early Encounters with Jazz" of Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank? by Geoffrey Wills (Matador, 2015). When, at the age of fourteen, Zappa entered Mission Bay High School in San Diego in 1955, his first exposure to the elitist snobbery of a ...

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Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson: Meltframe

Read "Meltframe" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


In a quietly forceful way, guitarist Mary Halvorson has cemented her place among the company of modern-day counterparts such as Eivind Aarset, Nels Cline and Terje Rypdal. The Brooklyn based composer/musician has performed with the likes of Anthony Braxton (both sharing credentials at Wesleyan University), cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum and the avant-garde group Trevor Dunn's ...

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News: Recording

Paul Hemmings, Jazz Ukulele Provocateur, Releases "The Blues And The Abstract Uke" Out October 9th, 2015

Paul Hemmings, Jazz Ukulele Provocateur, Releases "The Blues And The Abstract Uke" Out October 9th, 2015

Beautifully realized trio album with Gaku Takanashi, Rudy Royston plus guests Curtis Fowlkes, Greg Tardy Paul Hemmings has mastered the uncommon and highly compelling art of jazz ukulele. On The Blues and the Abstract Uke (the title clearly a nod to the great Oliver Nelson), Hemmings reveals a richness of harmony, a bell-like tone and a ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Kirk Knuffke

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Kirk Knuffke" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. John Tchicai -Reggie Workman -Andrew Cyrille -Witch's Scream (TUM Records -2006). Sono stato recentemente ad un concerto in solo di Andrew Cyrille. Avvincente. E dopo il concerto ho acquistato questo CD direttamente da lui. Ho suonato brevemente con John Tchicai prima che ci lasciasse, aveva una tale forza, una tale energia! Suonava e cantava ...

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Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson: Meltframe

Read "Meltframe" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


It should come as no shock that Mary Halvorson's first solo guitar album is a mind-bender. In the past, regardless of where she's gone and who she's gone with, Halvorson has managed to surprise by liberally mixing uncommonly aggressive assaults, open-ended exploration(s), and, on occasion, calm(ing) cogitation. Here, standing all by her lonesome, all three of ...

Article: Album Review

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Irvin Mayfield - The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Dee Dee's Feathers

Read "Dee Dee's Feathers" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Tornata a vivere negli Stati Uniti dopo molti anni di residenza parigina, Dee Dee Bridgewater ha inciso un nuovo disco, affidandosi alla guida di un produttore, cosa cha aveva sempre rifiutato nella sua vita professionale da leader. “Negli States non mi concederebbero mai un contratto da produttore -diceva anni fa in un'intervista-Essere in mano a un ...

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Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Bray Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Bray Jazz Festival 2015 Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2015 Sunshine and squall. The sun and the clouds chased each other's tails throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend of the Bray Jazz Festival. In a way the weather mirrored the music--a pleasingly eclectic, bracing mixture--and the fortunes of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris: Possible Universe (Conduction 192)

Read "Possible Universe (Conduction 192)" reviewed by Mark Corroto


With the death of jazzman Lawrence D. “Butch" Morris in 2013, we close the book on one of the most idiosyncratic composers, improvisors, conductors ever to work in creative music. His musical trajectory from a 1970s free jazz cornetist to the originator of his trademark 'Conductions' has been the stuff of legends. Under his baton, he ...


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