Results for "Paris"

News: Recording

French Prog Ensemble Yang Release Highly Anticipated 3rd Album "The Failure Of Words"

March 13, 2017

Founded by Frédéric L’Épée in 2002 (previously founder of the bands Shylock in the '70s and Philharmonie in the '90s), Yang is an instrumental quartet which compositions melt guitar counterpoints, odd time signatures, New Music with a hint of oriental modes all together with a powerful rock pulse. Their new opus, The Failure of Words, is ...

News: Recording

Gong Expresso Feat. Gong Alumni Francois Causse, Benoit Moerlen And Hansford Rowe To Release New Album Decadence

February 19, 2017

Hansford Rowe's HRIII merges with Gong Expresso! Gong alumni Francois Causse, Benoit Moerlen and Hansford Rowe join HRIII guitarist Julien Sandiford for the recording of the new album by Gong Expresso titled Decadence. Says Hansford, “ 'Decadence' is the title tune on the new Gong Expresso album. Here the word means 'falling away.' I hope this ...

Article: Live Review

Joëlle Léandre alla chiesa Saint-Eustache di Parigi

by Francesca Odilia Bellino
February 15, 2017

Joëlle Léandre Chiesa di Saint-Eustache Joëlle Léandre sur les routes. 40 ans de tribulations Parigi 28.11.2016 1976-2016. Joëlle Léandre fissa due coordinate storiche per celebrare la sua prima permanenza negli Stati Uniti (Buffalo), i successivi quarant'anni sulle strade del jazz, e il suo punto d'arrivo ideale, a casa, finalmente ...

Album

Paris

By Sebastien Paindestre

Label: La Fabrica'son
Released: 2016
Track listing: Scottish Folk Song; Jazz'titudes; Gaza-Paris-Jerusalem (For Peace); Mother Nature's Son; Blues for Violaine; Louise-Anne; La paindestrerie; Round' Radiohead.

Album

Paris

By Mike Westbrook

Label: ASC Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Front Page: Freedom’s Crown; Propositions; Because; The Triumphant Entry; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing. Bar-Room Piano: Sophisticated Lady; Gaudy Bar; Solitude. Love Stories: Nahe des Geliebten; View from the Drawbridge; Tender Love; You Make Me Feel Brand New; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; The Sound of Caress; She Loves You. The Blues: My Lover’s Coat; D.T.T.M.; Good Old Wagon; Blues for Terenzi. If Thou Must Love Me.

News: Music Industry

Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records

December 2, 2016

Outhere Music is proud to announce the acquisition of the catalogue of the legendary Swiss jazz and contemporary music label HatHut Records. HatHut Records boasts an impressive number of more than 500 CD’s and LP’s, produced by its visionary founder, Werner X. Uehlinger over 40 years. Major composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, ...

News: Website

Find Out Who is Playing Where and When with Jazz Near You

November 30, 2016

What is Jazz Near You? Jazz Near You is an event discovery and event distribution platform consisting of a website, an app, a weekly eblast, and a series of RSS feeds and widgets, and is designed to help jazz presenters and musicians promote their shows while alerting concert goers to events near them. Building Partnerships Jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Westbrook: Paris

by Duncan Heining
November 23, 2016

Listen to any number of Mike Westbrook records and you might want to ask, “Why doesn't he take a solo?" Aside from the occasional piano cadenza, Westbrook seems to prefer to let his compositions do the talking, ably aided by trustworthy musical confederates. Westbrook celebrated his 80th birthday in March 2016 and Paris is ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Three saxophonists' very different paths since "Propagations"

by John Eyles
November 23, 2016

Back in 2007, Marc Baron on alto, Bertrand Denzler on tenor and Jean-Luc Guionnet also on alto were three-quarters of the unnamed saxophone quartet that recorded the ground-breaking album Propagations (Potlatch, 2007), alongside Stéphane Rives on soprano. Together, the four reinvented the rule book for a saxophone quartet in the new millennium, ignoring the conventional vocabulary ...

Article: My Favourite Things

Frank Woeste

by Paolo Peviani
November 8, 2016

Frank Woeste is a German pianist living in Paris. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory in 2001, and was awarded 1st or 2nd prize at several international contests such as the Steinway Prize at the Montreux International Piano Competition (Switzerland), the Jazz Hoeilaart International Competition (Belgium) and the Gexto European Jazzcontest (Spain).