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Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
April 15, 2025

Tonally, these two artists offer what feels and sounds like an ideal fit. Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson are in no hurry with , their third collaboration as a duo, the title coming from a passage in the novel Trust, by Herman Diaz. There is gentleness mixed with a kind of dreaminess, interspersed with ...

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Brandon Seabrook: Object of Unknown Function

Read "Object of Unknown Function" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 7, 2025

Object of Unknown Function giunge a dieci anni di distanza da Sylphid Vitalizer, il precedente album solo di Brandon Seabrook, chitarrista e banjoista che alla sua apparizione una ventina di anni fa portò un discreto scompiglio nel mondo della sei corde e in quello del cordofono di origini africane, con un approccio che coniugava punk metal, ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
March 16, 2025

Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson! The combination of two such unconventional musicians is both rewarding, challenging and unnerving. The two women are radical disruptors. Their visions and their ambitions are vast. Their range of influences is dizzying. Their creativity seems limitless; their refusal to be conventional is absolute. Even the mechanics of their instruments are subject ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
March 15, 2025

Given that Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson are two of the most distinctive instrumentalists in the world of jazz and improvised music, it is a particular treat to hear them together in a duo configuration, where the intimacy of the setting allows for a fuller appreciation of their virtuosity and empathetic sensibilities than is sometimes possible ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 14, 2025

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson are the boldest of musical artists. Bold and uncompromising, each with distinctive voices coming from different places. For Courvoisier, it is the classical music world and European chamber music that she mixes with the sounds of avant-garde jazz. Halvorson started out early with the violin, until the sound of ...

Article: Year in Review

Libero Farnè's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Libero Farnè
January 8, 2025

The list I have compiled does not follow any order of preference. The albums are organized alphabetically by artist. In my opinion, every album on this list is of great interest. I decided to include a few U.S. albums, though I had to leave out many other deserving ones, as well as three Italian albums that ...

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Kris Davis: Run the Gauntlet

Read "Run the Gauntlet" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 8, 2025

While Kris Davis hews close to the hallowed piano trio format on Run The Gauntlet, her first return to the set-up since Waiting For You To Grow (Clean Feed, 2014), she inevitably gives it a few intriguing twists. By recruiting bassist Robert Hurst, alumni of Tony Williams, Steve Coleman and Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and drummer ...

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Giuseppe Segala's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Giuseppe Segala
January 7, 2025

There is not much to add to this list, other than noting note that the order is alphabetical and, of course, does not reflect any ranking of merit. Without a doubt, 2024 has given us a wealth of wonderful music to listen to and revisit. Unfortunately, many noteworthy albums had to remain beyond the limit of ...

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I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

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Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...