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Angular Mass/Soul Stream

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 10, 2016

Michiyo Yagi, Paal Nilssen-Love, Lasse Marhaug Angular Mass PNL Records Valutazione: * * * ½ Trio anomalo quello formato dal batterista norvegese Paal Nilssen-Love, dal mago dell'elettronica Lasse Marhaug e dalla virtuosa di koto Michiyo Yagi. E trio particolarmente convincente. I primi due brani ne rivelano il lato dionisiaco, ...

Article: Album Review

Cortex: Live in New York

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by Mark Corroto
August 8, 2016

Do you remember when you first heard Ornette Coleman's The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Atlantic, 1959)? It could have been fifty years ago or five, but its life force remains. Its music was/is nearly impossible to ignore. The same can be said of the Norwegian quartet Cortex's Live In New York. It sizzles with a ...

Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2016

by John Kelman
July 3, 2016

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 22 -July 3, 2016 It's hard to believe, with seasons that move quickly from spring into summer, that it was time, once again, for the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. Now in its 36th year, the festival has grown from a weekend event into a full-blown, ...

Article: Live Review

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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.