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Peter Madsen: Never Bet The Devil Your Head
by Don Phipps
An album like Never Bet The Devil Your Head is meant for one thing--to get inside your head! And it succeeds admirably. Composer and pianist Peter Madsen's inspiration for the music came from several literary masterpieces by the master storyteller and poet Edgar Allen Poe, and each piece is titled after a Poe story or poem. ...
Peter Madsen's Seven Sins Ensemble: Never Bet The Devil Your Head
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Peter Madsen has come up with a novel idea for a jazz record: A Tribute to Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), America's founding father of macabre/horror fiction. Bringing together a jazz quartet--piano/bass/drums/trumpet--and a string quartet, Madsen and his Seven Sins Ensemble capture the moods and atmospheres of some of the author's better-known tales on Never Bet ...
Peter Madsen: Satin Doll – A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn
by Angelo Leonardi
A dispetto di una carriera ricca di incisioni e collaborazioni, iniziata nel 1987 con Stan Getz, il pianista Peter Madsen è un tipico esempio di musician's musician, molto apprezzato dai colleghi ma poco noto al grande pubblico. Quest'incisione europea (Liechtenstein, novembre 2015) è nata per commemorare i cento anni della nascita di Billy Strayhorn, ...
Satin Doll – A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn
By Peter Madsen
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Satin Doll; Passion Flower; Day Dream; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; Take the A Train; Johnny Come
Lately; Blood Count; Chelsea Bridge; Isfahan; Lotus Blossom.
Mats Gustafsson/ Alfred Vogel: Blow + Beat
by Karl Ackermann
Swedish saxophone powerhouse Mats Gustafsson was playing with his trio--The Thing--at the 2016 Beazau Beatz Festival when he hooked up with the excellent, but under-recognized, Austrian drummer Alfred Vogel, who hosts the outing. The resulting Blow + Beat is an extraordinarily challenging musical experiment from two fearless advocates of free thought. The saxophone/drum duo is an ...
Peter Madsen: Satin Doll – A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn
by C. Michael Bailey
The true beauty and utility of the Great American Songbook is the durability of the music in response to interpretation, often jarring and drastic. French pianist Martial Solal made a master's class of demonstrating the music's vitality on his uniformly excellent Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love (CAM Jazz, 2009). ...
Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 1
by Karl Ackermann
A Protracted Beginning Ken Prouty, an assistant professor of Musicology and Jazz Studies at Michigan State University and author of Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age (University Press of Mississippi, 2013) has written at length about the early history of jazz education in the US. In his writings, he ...
Thomas Chapin: Never Let Me Go
by Giuseppe Segala
L'ascolto di questo cofanetto fa rinascere aspra l'amarezza per la scomparsa prematura, nel 1998 a soli quarant'anni, di Thomas Chapin. Una raccolta che contrasta l'oblio e aggiunge qualche motivo di stupore e riflessione all'esperienza di chi ha apprezzato la fulminea, ricchissima eppure troppo breve vicenda artistica di quel grande musicista, straripante di vitalità e umanità.
Elvis Never Left the Building
By Peter Madsen
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: Devil in Disguise; Love Me Tender; Suspicious Minds; Jailhouse Rock; Hound Dog; All Shook Up; Surrender; Heartbreak Hotel; Can’t Help Falling in Love; Don’t Be Cruel.
Mario Pavone: Blue Dialect
by Mark Corroto
Gone are the days where a jazz trio maintains a three month residency, playing nightly in a club. Nor are there world traveling units that refine their skills nightly on the road, working and reworking material. There will be no more piano trios led by the likes of Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. But have no ...


