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Article: Live Review

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2012

by Thomas Conrad
November 13, 2012

Belgrade Jazz FestivalBelgrade, SerbiaOctober 25-28, 2012There are hundreds of jazz festivals around the globe every year, in places like Baku, Azerbaijan, and Sibiu, Romania, and Valletta, Malta. But there may be no more improbable setting for a jazz festival than Belgrade, Serbia.Not that long ago, in the late 1990s, during ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Lytton / Nate Wooley / Ikue Mori / Ken Vandermark: The Nows

Read "The Nows" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 2, 2012

Consider the great duos of the cinema, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson and so on-what each successful duo has in common, is a chemistry, an attraction or spark between them. Such is the case with the musical duo of percussionist Paul Lytton and trumpeter Nate ...

Article: Album Review

Christian Pruvost: Ipteravox

Read "Ipteravox" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 26, 2012

Within the small cult of trumpeters who reinvent the sonic range of the trumpet-beginning with the late Bill Dixon, continuing with Americans Nate Wooley and Peter Evans, Europeans Franz Hautzinger and Birgit Uhler and Lebanese Mazen Kerbaj-underrated French trumpeter Christian Pruvost (a member of the Muzzix musicians collective based in Lille)) is still a rare bird. ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Babel Label: New Songs from the Tower of Sound

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 24, 2012

During the last decade, British jazz has been booming and London has become, once again, one of the jazz capitals of the world. To get a feel of what's happening, the place for live music is no longer Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, but a place called The Vortex, directed by Oliver Weindling. Weindling is also the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble: Hasselt

by John Eyles
August 23, 2012

Evan Parker Electroacoustic EnsembleHasseltPsi2012Although Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble had recorded five albums for ECM since 1997, in 2009 saxophonist Parker's Psi label released SET under his own name; the album was effectively by the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, sharing its personnel, instrumentation and working methods. At the time, it seemed ...

Article: Live Review

Ljubljana Jazz Festival: Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 20–29, 2012

by Henning Bolte
July 26, 2012

Ljubljana Jazz FestivalLjubljana, SloveniaJune 20-29, 2012Ljubljana, with its 53rd edition, truly hosts the oldest jazz festival in Europe. Norway's Molde, also a candidate, started one year later, in 1960. The capital of the now-independent Republic of Slovenia, neighbored by Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy, Ljubljana is situated one hour from Trieste, two hours ...

News: Festival

Kongsberg Jazz Festival Unveils First Shows

February 10, 2012

On February 1, 2012, Norway's Kongsberg Jazz Festival unveiled the first series of shows scheduled for its 2012 edition, running from July 4-7, 2012. In addition to its collaboration with Music Export Norway and All About Jazz on the All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway series, encompassing seven shows curated by AAJ Managing Editor John ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Parker / Lee / Evans : The Bleeding Edge

by John Eyles
January 20, 2012

Parker / Lee / EvansThe Bleeding EdgePsi2011 The coming together of American trumpeter Peter Evans, Korean (now New York-based) cellist Okkyung Lee and English saxophonist Evan Parker is a fine example of the trans-continental links that connect improvising musicians across the world. Despite their coming from three continents, ...

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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2011

by John Sharpe
January 4, 2012

Here are ten new releases and three reissues which stood out from those heard this year: Wadada Leo Smith's OrganicHeart's ReflectionsCuneiform String ensembles and fusion don't usually go together, but in AACM trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's universe anything is possible. His Organic ensemble made its first ...

Album

Kopros Lithos

By Peter Evans

Label: Multikulti Project
Released: 2011
Track listing: My Fingers Were Glue; Man, This Stuff Is Rough; As Each Note Rang True; What Would You Pay To Make It Go Away?