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Bota Fogo

By Paal Nilssen-Love

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

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Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble: Double Arc

Read "Double Arc" reviewed by Mark Corroto

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 ...

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Mats Gustafsson & Nu Ensemble: Hidros 6: Knockin'

Read "Hidros 6: Knockin'" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
November 8, 2015

An avant-garde jazz composition based on the songs of '50s rocker Little Richard. Really? Yep, that's the premise behind Swedish reedman Mats Gustafsson's large scale work recorded at the Krakow Jazz Autumn in 2013. Although best known for his small group output with The Thing and Fire!, Gustafsson has regularly assembled bigger groupings during his career, ...

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Keefe Jackson/Josh Berman/Jon Rune Strøm/Tollef Østvang: Southern Sun

Read "Southern Sun" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 8, 2015

Americans have discovered Norwegian jazz artists through several sources. Manfred Eicher's ECM label has produced music by the now famous artists: Arild Andersen, Jan Garbarek, Tord Gustavsen, Terje Rypdal, Trygve Seim and Nils Petter Molvaer. Their success bled into the modern sounds of Bugge Wesseltoft, Per Zanussi, Håvard Wiik, and Hakon Kornstad. Perhaps the closest connection ...

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Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity: Firehouse

Read "Firehouse" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
November 4, 2015

With his new Acoustic Unity threesome Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen enters the saxophone trio stakes with an ebullient swagger. Since coming onto the scene in 2006, Nilssen has become an in-demand figure, featuring in outfits such as Cortex, bassists Arild Andersen's sextet and Per Zanussi's quintet. On Firehouse, the group carves out a distinctive identity manifest ...

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Ballister: Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love: Worse for the Wear

Read "Worse for the Wear" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
October 15, 2015

Cinque dischi in cinque anni non sono male per un trio dalla spiccata identità free, con innesti rumoristico/elettronici. Nato nel 2011, Ballister è formato dal sassofonista Dave Rempis, dal violocellista Fred Lonberg-Holm e dal batterista norvegese Paal Nilssen-Love, tutti partner -a vario titolo -di Ken Vandermark e dei massimi strumentisti radicali che fanno base ...

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Rodrigo Amado: This Is Our Language

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by Mark Corroto
October 1, 2015

It was only a matter of time before this session was to be. Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado had, for years, been gaining the attention of American players, and recording his Motion Trio with guests such as Peter Evans and Jeb Bishop. When he conceived of this quartet, it was hand-in-the-glove fit. The title, ...

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Shelton / Lonberg-Holm / Rosaly: Resounder

Read "Resounder" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 26, 2015

There is no connection whatsoever between the improvised electro-acoustic music of Resounder and Carl Stalling's musical accompaniment and his adaptations of music composed by Raymond Scott for Warner Brothers' Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoon. Except that, the music of Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Frank Rosaly evokes a sort of theatre of the mind. The ...

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All Included: Satan In Plain Clothes

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by John Sharpe
August 24, 2015

Cooperative five piece All Included goes from strength to strength on Satan In Plain Clothes, building on the already considerable charms of their debut Reincarnation Of A Free Bird (Stone Floor, 2012). Connections abound in the unchanged line up which reflects the burgeoning, almost incestuous, Scandinavian scene. Check out the overlaps in personnel among groups such ...