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Matthieu Metzger: SelfCooking

Read "SelfCooking" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


SelfCooking offers a glimpse into the busy mind of a restless musician, French saxophonist Matthieu Metzger. Deep thoughts about weird compositions that have lurked in his memory, accidental explorations while playing with the extended family of saxophones and the joyful cooking of sonic textures, spiced with electronic treatments, some are his own design of real time ...

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Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!

Read "Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


The Argentinian composer, bandoneón player and tango revolutionary Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was no stranger to jazz. As a music student in Paris in the mid-1950s, he was inspired by the joyous improvisation he witnessed in the effervescent Left Bank jazz scene. He would go on to collaborate with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan (Summit/Reunion Cumbre, Erre, 1974) ...

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Piazzolla!

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2012

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Article: Live Review

Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2011: Days 1-3

Read "Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2011: Days 1-3" reviewed by Matt Marshall


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 8-10 32th Annual Tri-C JazzFest ClevelandCleveland, OhioApril 28-May 8, 2011 Like most jazz festivals, the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, now in its 32nd year, features a fair share of tributes to jazz legends. Slated this time around were tributes to usual suspects Miles ...

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Orchestre National de Jazz: Shut Up And Dance

Read "Orchestre National de Jazz: Shut Up And Dance" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Orchestre National de JazzShut Up And DanceBee Jazz2010 Daniel Yvinec's first foray as artistic director of France's National Jazz Orchestra, a tribute to English rock oddball Robert Wyatt (Around Robert Wyatt, Bee Jazz, 2009) drew well-deserved critical praise. To some, however, it sounded more like a pop ...

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Shut Up And Dance

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2010

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Orchestre National de Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Song; Alifib; Just As You Are; O Caroline; Kew Rhone; Shipbuilding; Line; Alliance; Vandalusia; Del Mondo; Te Recuerdo Amanda.

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Around Robert Wyatt

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2009

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Orchestre National de Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt

Read "Orchestre National de Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Orchestre National de JazzAround Robert WyattBee Jazz2009 Hearing that France's National Jazz Orchestra has prepared a program of music by Robert Wyatt, the venerable sage of English rock and roll, is intriguing, but not necessarily shocking. After all, the legendary Soft Machine, for which Wyatt served as drummer ...


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