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Suoni Per Il Popolo 2016

by Mike Chamberlain
July 1, 2016

Suoni Per Il Popolo La Sala Rossa Montréal, Canada June 2-19, 2016 The final weekend of the 16th Suoni Per Il Popolo featured several notable performances by jazz-based artists: Myra Melford and Francois Bourassa; Luc Ex's Assemblee; and The Thing, with guest James Blood Ulmer. The program by pianists ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Five New From Konvoj Records

by Mark Corroto
June 16, 2016

If you are a free jazz fanatic, you probably look for those out-of-print vinyl offerings from labels like Hat Hut, FMP, Sonet, and El Saturn Records. Sadly, you would have to be either independently wealthy or Mats Gustafsson to acquire the rarest of the rare music. But take heart, there are small labels producing the free ...

Article: Album Review

Defibrillator & Peter Brötzmann: Conversations About Not Eating Meat

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by Mark Corroto
June 13, 2016

Imagine the fight posters we could create for the various musical boxing matches organized for saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. His profile picture would be facing a fellow competitor with all the relevant statistics--height, weight, reach, and age. The boxing poster image often comes to mind when he grapples with plugged-in artists and those dealing with electronics, as ...

Article: Album Review

Thomas Johansson/Øyvind Storesund/Paal Nilssen-Love: Revolution Before Lunch

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by Mark Corroto
June 2, 2016

There is probably no way to avoid the parochial mindset of the American jazz listener. Take the release Revolution Before Lunch by the Scandinavian trio of Thomas Johansson, Øyvind Storesund, and Paal Nilssen-Love. You might listen to a few notes of Johansson's trumpet as “Close As Hail" opens the affair and think, oh yeah, it's Magnus ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Something old, something new, something reissued, something Brötzmann blew.

by Mark Corroto
April 21, 2016

Can the entire history of a musical genre be encoded in one man's DNA? If that is possible, then reading the DeoxyriboNucleic Acid molecules in saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's body would yield all the information a musical scientist studying the development of free jazz would require. Since the 1960s, he has been in the center of the ...

Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

Bergamo Jazz 2016

by Francesco Martinelli
April 18, 2016

For the first time under the artistic direction of trumpeter Dave Douglas, the 38th edition of the Bergamo Jazz Festival--one of Europe's longest running jazz events--invaded the ancient and noble city in the North of Italy with a joyous celebration of the music's diversity. The beautifully restored Teatro Sociale in the Città Alta--Bergamo's ancient ...

Album

Bota Fogo

By Paal Nilssen-Love

Label: Bocian Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Bota ; Fogo.

Album

Erta Ale

By Paal Nilssen-Love

Label: Catalytic Sound
Released: 2015
Track listing:
CD 1:
Round About Nothing I; Fortar Hardar; Fendika; Birdbox (feat. Klaus Ellerhusen Holm); Round About Nothing II.
CD 2:
Culius; Erta Ale; Slow Love ; Austin Birds; Birdbox ; Round About Nothing III; Birdbox.
Live at Moers Festival Jazzfestival, June 7th 2014: Round About Nothing I; Fortar Hardar II; Austin Birds; Culius.

Article: Album Review

Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble: Double Arc

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by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2015

For the most part, we only follow the trajectory of an artist's career many years after his work has been completed. Looking back at the career of Miles Davis, you can now play connect-the-dots from bebop to Gil Evans to modal jazz to electric Miles. Certainly, back in the day, many a listener knew not where ...

Article: Live Review

34 ° Tampere Jazz Happening

by Luca Vitali
November 18, 2015

Tampere Jazz Happening 2015 Tampere (Finlandia) 29.10- 01.11.2015 Il Tampere Jazz Happening si conferma come un festival di grande vitalità, tra i migliori in Europa. Un'edizione, questa 34^, ancora una volta senza confini geografici né musicali, all'insegna della combinazione tra musica jazz e parola parlata. I cinquemila spettatori paganti ...