Results for "Olivier Messiaen"

Olivier Messiaen

Den Andre Festivalen #9

by Daniel Mège
September 22, 2026

Den Andre Festivalen Oslo, Norway September 4-5, 2026 The Other Festival, The Other Collective, The Other Ensemble, Other Records: a unique binational initiative L'Autre Festival/Den Andre Festivalen (in French and Norwegian; The Other Festival) is a unique jazz festival that grew out of a master's project at the Norwegian Academy of Music ...

Idiotek: IDIOTEK

by Daniel Mège
September 20, 2026

One of the basic principles of physics holds that materials can respond to force in three ways: elastic (reversible), plastic (irreversible), or viscous (progressive over time). Combining all three, the possibilities are limitless and hard to master. IDIOTEK's material is mastered, and it explores the domain of viscoelasticity. Time stretches and contracts at the whim of ...

L'Abîme: L'Abîme II

by Katchie Cartwright
August 4, 2026

Montreal-based composer and pianist Jonathan Turgeon, double-bassist Hugo Blouin, and drummer Jean-Philippe Godbout have been together as a rhythm section since 2015, performing, recording, and following in the footsteps of musical heroes as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Olivier Messiaen, and Radiohead. L'Abîme II is their second release as the ensemble L'Abîme (The Abyss), following L'Abîme I ...

Jason Vitelli Releases Vibrant Instrumental Album "2. No Wave Gaze"

April 14, 2026

Prolific, at times confounding musical chameleon Jason Vitelli as returned with a fresh instrumental release rich in both visceral sonic texture and unnerving, yet strangely inviting atmospheres. With a palette ranging from dense art rock and dark ambient to glitch and static noise, listeners are clearly to expect the unexpected. The second release in an ongoing ...

Knats: A Great Day In Newcastle

by Neil Duggan
March 18, 2026

Led by two lifelong friends from Newcastle, bassist Stan Woodward and drummer King David Ike Elechi, Knats are not the easiest band to pin down to a single genre. So they created their own: “Geordie Jazz," or as they sometimes call it, “Geordie Noir." Drawing on their Tyneside roots (a “Geordie" being a person from the ...

Elijah Shiffer: City Of Birds, Volume 3: Fly By Night Blues

by Max Kutner
December 25, 2025

Few current composers are as restlessly inventive as saxophonist-clarinetist Elijah Shiffer. Over the past decade, Shiffer has led numerous ensembles and written an ever-expanding catalog of original music, all crafted and thematically tied closely to and informed by distinct aspects of his interests and tastes. Fly by Night Blues, the third volume in his City of ...

Lars Danielsson, John Parricelli and Verneri Pohjola: Trio

by Neil Duggan
November 8, 2024

Château Palmer is a wine estate in Margaux, in south-west France. Those that know about these things rate their wines as among the best anywhere in Bordeaux. If you are going to record a jazz album outside of the recording studio, then a light and airy wood-paneled salon at the château with French windows overlooking the ...

Big Ears Festival 2022

by Mark Sullivan
April 5, 2022

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 24-27, 2022 The Big Ears Festival found ways to continue virtually during the pandemic—most notably by sponsoring the Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival—but there is no substitute for the big glorious eclectic event that is the in-person festival. Past festivals have usually opened with a big kickoff ...

Daniel Bernardes & Drumming GP: Liturgy of the Birds – in memoriam Olivier Messiaen

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 29, 2020

In questo singolare album, inciso nel febbraio 2018, il trentaquattrenne pianista portoghese Daniel Bernardes riunisce il proprio trio col quartetto di percussionisti (in verità anche parecchio melodici, visto l'ampio uso di vibrafoni e marimba) Drumming GP, a generare un incontro appunto decisamente particolare, visto che a tratti il trio agisce in quanto tale, battendo itinerari anche ...