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Article: Building a Jazz Library

15 Emerging Norwegian Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

by Luca Vitali
January 26, 2018

Double your Norwegian jazz pleasure: listen to our companion Norwegian jazz mixtape while reading this article. Far too many people talk about the Norwegian scene as being “interesting because it's so exotic." Those who think so, have in mind its “Nordic Tone," that distinctive mood which evokes snow, mountains and icy fjords. This kind ...

Article: Album Review

Angles 9: Disappeared Behind the Sun

Read "Disappeared Behind the Sun" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 21, 2018

On the sixth release from reedman Martin Küchen's mid-sized Angles ensemble, all the winning traits so evident on previous outings are still present and correct: heart wrenching melodies, huge foot-tapping riffs, sweeping chorales and adventurous raw soloing, not least by the leader himself. Many of the same top notch players remain on board, notably trombonist Mats ...

Album

3 Nights In Oslo

By Peter Brötzmann

Label: Catalytic Sound
Released: 2017
Track listing: Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Michael Zerang / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Johannes Bauer / Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1].

Article: Album Review

Ballister: Slag

by Nicola Negri
December 22, 2017

Ballister: cronache di una working band. Sesto album per questo trio, formato nel 2009 da Dave Rempis (sax contralto e tenore) insieme a Fred Lonberg-Holm (violoncello, elettronica) e Paal Nilssen-Love (batteria e percussioni varie). Negli anni la musica del trio ha sempre mantenuto le stesse caratteristiche di base: un'improvvisazione collettiva caratterizzata ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Ivo Perelman Makes It Rain

by Mark Corroto
November 12, 2017

If music was sports, then Ivo Perelman would be baseball and most other musicians football. Where football's regular season is 16 games, baseball plays 162. Likewise, most musicians release one album every year or two, but Perelman has averaged seven titles per year for the last seven years. His 2017 Leo Records output is thirteen (fourteen, ...

Article: Album Review

Cortex: Avant-Garde Party Music

Read "Avant-Garde Party Music" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 26, 2017

Do you have Blue Zone envy? You know the places where people live the longest and happiest lives on the planet. They seem to get more physical activity then we do, eat better, love their communities and politicians. Politicians? I know. They even make some of the best modern jazz. Case in point the Norwegian quartet ...

Article: Live Review

October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music 2017

by Mark Corroto
October 24, 2017

October Revolution In Jazz & Contemporary Music FringeArts Philadelphia, PA October 5-8, 2017 The main venue for The October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music was FringeArts, a renovated historic pumping station for Philadelphia's fire department located in the shadow of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. It seats 240 ...

Article: Live Review

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXXII Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
September 15, 2017

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz Sant'Anna Arresi Piazza del Nuraghe 01-10.09.2017 Max Roach e la sua We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Erano queste le coordinate di riferimento della trentaduesima edizione del festival Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz. Percussioni, dunque, ma anche lotte per i diritti civili, per le conquiste ...

Article: Album Review

James Blood Ulmer: Baby Talk

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by Mark Corroto
August 14, 2017

It was a predestined meeting. This collaboration between the legendary guitarist James Blood Ulmer and the band The Thing. Ulmer, who cut his teeth with the soul jazz organists Hank Marr, Larry Young and Big John Patton before collaborating with Ornette Coleman's electric free jazz/funk harmolodic music, expanded upon Coleman's ideas, incorporating rock music with players ...

Article: Live Review

Ground Music Festival 2017

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 10, 2017

Ground Music Festival Franciacorta e Val Trompia 23.6-2.7.2017 La nascita di un nuovo festival dedicato alla musica improvvisata è sempre da accogliere con grande attenzione ed entusiasmo soprattutto se arriva non per volontà di qualche occasionale investitore o interessato amministratore ma dalla passione, dalla competenza, dalla voglia di mettersi in gioco e ...