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15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival
by Marcia Hillman
Litchfield Jazz FestivalKent, ConnecticutAugust 6-8, 2010 The green hills of Kent, Connecticut resounded once more with the sound of jazz as the 15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival settled in from Friday, August 6th through Sunday, August 8th. This year the main stage was again indoors in the newly air-conditioned hockey ...
Peter Madsen: The Litchfield Suite
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Peter Madsen fortified an already solid reputation with a pair of stellar solo piano works in the last decade: Sphere Essence: Another Side of Monk (2003) and Prevue of Tomorrow (2006), both on Playscape. Now he works his magic with bassist Andy McKee and drummer Gerald Cleaver on The Litchfield Suite, a vibrant performance captured live ...
Peter Madsen Trio: The Litchfield Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo Wynton Marsalis, ecco un'altra ambiziosa suite dedicata ad una kermesse jazz. Si tratta del Lichtfield Jazz Festival, cui ora rende omaggio Peter Madsen per far rivivere umori, luoghi, persone di un appuntamento estivo seguitissimo negli Stati Uniti. Seppur dal vivo, è un disco minuziosamente costruito, contrassegnato più dalla ricerca dell'idea musicale che dallo sfoggio del ...
Prevue Of Tomorrow
By Peter Madsen
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: Boo; Subterfuge; Three-Four vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways; The Bird Song; The Third World;
Rick Kick Shaw; A Portrait of the Living Sky; Blues for Africa; The Girl From Greenland; Leave
Me.
Peter Madsen: Prevue of Tomorrow
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giunto alla soglia dei cinquant’anni, Peter Madsen imprime una improvvisa svolta alla sua musica grazie a questa incisione in solitudine per la label indipendente Playscape. Contrariamente alla sua non certo esaltante passata discografia sia da leader che come componente dei Three Of A Kind, questa è un opera di valore, che si svincola dai consueti canoni ...
Peter Madsen: Comfortable Inside and Out
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist Peter Madsen is well rounded in his jazz foundation, having played inside the mainstream and outside. He has the knowledge, musicianship and technique for both, and in fact says he comes by it honestly, being attracted to both sides as a youngster. “I can tell you the first two records I bought. Maybe ...
Introduction to Wide Open Jazz and Beyond
by Peter Madsen
Greetings fellow jazz-junkies, music aficionados and other folks searching for a little bit of meaningful life between the exit signs. My name is Peter Madsen and in real life I'm a professional pianist, keyboardist and composer that once a month will be masquerading as a music-writer for AAJ. Being that this is the maiden voyage of ...
Warne Marsh
by Peter Madsen
One of my first great musical experiences in New York happened shortly after I had arrived here in 1980. I was rehearsing once a week with a band co-led by trumpeter Manny Duran and singer Carla White up in Breton Hall on 86th street and Broadway. During one of the rehearsals a shy thin gray haired ...
Improvisation, Part 1-2
by Peter Madsen
Happy New Year everyone. Hope 2000 was as great a year for you as it was for me and I hope 2001 is even better. The following is a letter from an AAJ fan with some questions about scales and improvisation. I was asked to try and wrestle these questions to the ground and turn the ...
Improvisation, Part 2-2
by Peter Madsen
Welcome back to part 2 of an article in response to a question from Michael a loyal AAJ reader with some interesting questions that I was asked to write about. Once again here's the letter: I have a question, which might make a good topic for an article - maybe. In an old interview with Frank ...
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