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Article: Album Review

Chris Cheek: Saturday Songs

Read "Saturday Songs" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


The idea that jazz has to renew itself sometimes results in rather pretentious and purely intellectual experiments with form, but it is possible to play inventive and intellectually stimulating music without losing a sense of fun and inclusive curiosity. Saxophonist Chris Cheek is the proof. Cheek comes with a refreshingly unprejudiced approach to ...

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David Fiuczynski: Flam! Blam!

Read "Flam! Blam!" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini


Il chitarrista americano David Fiuczynski si lascia condurre per mano dall'ispirazione che nasce dal canto degli uccelli per questo suo album intrigante e misterioso. Ci vengono subito in mente due esperienze straordinarie come quella dell'Eric Dolphy degli anni sessanta che confidava agli amici di essere stato particolarmente colpito dello stesso fenomeno e di essere impegnato nella ...

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Nicola Fazzini e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Nicola Fazzini e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Nicola Fazzini: Ricercare ed essere originale, almeno così spero. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. N.F.: Un insieme di creatività e rigore. Saper ricercare ed essere liberi con profondità, passione e studio. AAJ: Come musicista, il ...

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Ligro: Dictionary 3

Read "Dictionary 3" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Ligro is yet another one of MoonJune Records' stellar discoveries from Indonesia. One says “Indonesia" with caution, as each member of this supremely energetic fusion power trio hails from a culturally different part the vast region: bassist, occasional pianist, and chief composer Adi Darmawan is from Madura, drummer Gusti Hendy is from South Kalimantan and guitarist ...

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Zeitgeber Ensemble: Resalio

Read "Resalio" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Reselio vede all'opera lo Zeitgeber Ensemble, ampio gruppo (ma i tredici musicisti non suonano mai tutti assieme) diretto dal sassofonista e compositore pugliese Giacomo Eramo che sviluppa il lavoro svolto a partire dal 2005 da un omonimo quintetto, la continuità con il quale è fornita dalla comune presenza di Davide Merlino, Andrea Campagnolo, Simone Prando e ...

Article: Live Review

La Memoria e la Resistenza nel segno di Massiaen

Read "La Memoria e la Resistenza nel segno di Massiaen" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Musica Insieme Contemporanea San Filippo Neri, Bologna, 27.01.2015 Il concerto d'inaugurazione di MICO 2015, la rassegna di musica contemporanea organizzata dalla Fondazione Musica Insieme, ha coinciso con la Giornata della Memoria e alle sue finalità il programma era improntato. Ma l'appuntamento rientrava anche nel palinsesto di Resistenza Illuminata 1945--2015, un più ampio e ...

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David Soler: Botánicas

Read "Botánicas" reviewed by Enrique Turpin


Hay discos que nacen con la condición de outsiders. No sólo es que vayan a contracorriente, es que encuentran sentido en los márgenes. La periferia es su dominio y cobran sentido pleno cuando dejan descubrir su lateralidad. David Soler es el baricentro que equilibra las fuerzas, densidades y distancias del conjunto heterogéneo que es Botánicas. Un ...

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Article: Book Review

Is Jazz Dead? Or Is It Just Pining for the Fjords?

Read "Is Jazz Dead?  Or Is It Just Pining for the Fjords?" reviewed 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. ...

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Article: Interview

Louis Sclavis: Maps of the Mind

Read "Louis Sclavis: Maps of the Mind" reviewed by Ian Patterson


"My music? I know what it is, and I don't know what it is. It's a paradox." Now entering his fifth decade as a recording artist, multi-reedist/composer Louis Sclavis may not have a clear handle on the music he makes, but he has absorbed the lessons of all the music he has turned his hand to, ...

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Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio: Sources

Read "Sources" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Multi-reedist, composer and improviser Louis Sclavis' ninth release for ECM sees this eternally restless seeker of new sounds and textures heading once more into personally unchartered territory; this is the first time Sclavis has led a trio of clarinet, guitar and piano. In guitarist Gilles Coronado and pianist Benjamin Mouassy, Sclavis has recruited open-minded musicians with ...


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