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Gent Jazz Festival 2015: Part 1

by Martin Longley
July 30, 2015

Gent Jazz Festival Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 10-12, 2015 Part 1 | Part 2 A bold beginning was made with the festival's opening night, perhaps concentrating on some of director Bertrand Flamang's personal favourites. This evening was never destined to be a sell-out session, but ...

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James Brandon Lewis e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
July 30, 2015

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. James Brandon Lewis: Le emozioni e il suono la fanno da padrone! Le melodie, sia predeterminate che spontanee. Musica angolare, onesta, vulnerabile, rischiosa, urgente, con groove, funky e libera, che viene dal cuore. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano ...

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Vladan: Ornaments

Read "Ornaments" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 27, 2015

Eastern Europe and, particularly the Balkans, have been fertile ground in the evolution of jazz, with an excellent recent example of Markelian Kapedani's Balkan Bop. Another pianist emerging from that same fecund spot is Vladan. Vladan is Vladan Mijatovic, a Serbian pianist and composer intent on trashing genre designations and fully expanding the piano sound palette. ...

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Paal Nilssen-Love, Bruce Brubaker, Muzsikás & The Glasshouse Orchestra

by Martin Longley
June 25, 2015

Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit First Unitarian Congregational Society June 13, 2015 There aren't many churches where a believer can purchase Large Unit underpants upon entrance. Brooklyn's Issue Project Room experimental music venue is currently undergoing even further renovations, so they've been promoting gigs at various temporary haunts around the ...

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Bray Jazz Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
May 11, 2015

Bray Jazz Festival 2015 Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2015 Sunshine and squall. The sun and the clouds chased each other's tails throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend of the Bray Jazz Festival. In a way the weather mirrored the music--a pleasingly eclectic, bracing mixture--and the fortunes of the ...

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Philip Glass: Glassworks

Read "Glassworks" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
April 25, 2015

In composer Philip Glass' storied career, Glassworks ranks among his best known and most beloved releases. Published at the start of the '80s it also signaled the more refined style characterized by a more refined intensity than the rough dynamic rush of his swirling melodies executed at breakneck speed. The decade before was characterized by long ...

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From the Keyboard: Scarlatti, Glass, & Aho

by C. Michael Bailey
April 4, 2015

The keyboard repertoire will never grow stale or cliche. These three composers and their interpreters will see to that. Duanduan Hao Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol.16 Naxos 2015 Naxos began their Scarlatti Sonata Cycle with the release of Volume 1 in 1999 with ...

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Philip Glass: Low Symphony

Read "Low Symphony" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
January 1, 2015

Back in 1977 singer David Bowie released two groundbreaking records, Low (EMI, 1977) and Heroes, (EMI, 1977) which together with Lodger constitute (EMI, 1979) a famous triptych of records or the iconic Berlin Trilogy. It was during this period that he created some of the critically most acclaimed and forward looking music (but commercially less successful) ...

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