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Article: Live Review

Rabih Abou-Khalil a Frabbrica Europa

by Neri Pollastri
October 29, 2026

Rabih Abou-Khalil Fabbrica Europa Teatro Puccini Firenze 9 ottobre 2026 Se l'oud, suggestivo cordofono del medioriente dov'è considerato “il sultano degli strumenti musicali," è oggi uno strumento universalmente piuttosto noto --anche in Italia ne non mancano gli interpreti--lo si deve anche al contributo dato alla diffusione della sua musica da ...

Article: Interview

My Conversation with Brad Shepik

by Lazaro Vega
August 19, 2024

This article was first published on All About Jazz in February 2001. It was conducted from Lazaro Vega's home in New York for Blue Lake Public Radio, a broadcast service of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the international summer school for the arts in western Michigan. All About Jazz: Is this band that you're ...

Article: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

Lebanon: Jazz And The Revolution

by Ian Patterson
December 19, 2019

When people's anger and frustration spill onto Beirut's streets, music is one of the first things to suffer. Every few years, it seems, roads are blocked, and crowds swell the downtown area--angry at Syrian intervention or political assassination, enraged by Israeli attack, sick to the teeth of inadequate garbage collection. There's always something to ...

Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2018

by Ian Patterson
May 24, 2018

Bray Jazz Festival Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 4-6, 2018 From the hilltop vantage point the Irish Sea lies veiled under a blanket of thick mist. Greystones, five miles to the right, birthplace of the great Christy Doran, peeks out, seemingly floating above the misty clouds like a Roger ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz From Around the World: Asia

by Hrayr Attarian
October 4, 2016

Asia is the most culturally and ethnically diverse continent. It is, therefore, hard to distill all its jazz influenced musical legacies into 10 albums. Some countries have robust jazz scenes that, nevertheless, are fundamentally derivative of European and American styles. In other musical cultures jazz has just recently made inroads. Below are 10 historic records that ...

Article: Album Review

Marius Neset/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Lion

by Ian Patterson
August 30, 2014

Lion is a good name for Marius Neset's first recording with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, for like a great cat, the Norwegian orchestra purrs and prowls, roars and pounces. Regardless of tempo--whether cruising or charging--there's majesty in the collective voice. Commissioned for the Molde Jazz Festival in 2012, the momentum from that performance took Neset and ...

Article: Live Review

Rabih Abou Khalil and Penelope X at the Bitola World Music Festival 2013

by Nenad Georgievski
November 23, 2013

Rabih Abou Khalil/Penelope X Bitola World Music Festival NU Centar za Kultura Bitola, Macedonia November 9, 2013 Bitola, one of the most beautiful cities in southeastern Europe, is a place that ignites the imagination immediately. With its tasteful and stylish architecture reflected in multicolored facades and ...

Article: Interview

Alexander Balanescu: The Aggressive Lyricism

by Adriana Carcu
May 28, 2013

Alexander Balanescu, the London-based violinist of Romanian origin, leads the avant- garde string quartet Balanescu Quartet, formed in 1987. Before that, Balanescu was part of the Michael Nyman Ensemble and Arditti Quartet. Ever since he has worked closely with artists of various musical orientations such as saxophonist John Lurie, singer David Byrne, pianists Keith Tippett and ...

Article: Album Review

Francesco Turrisi: Songs of Experience

Read "Songs of Experience" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 17, 2013

Pianist Francesco Turrisi's first two albums as leader, the classically influenced jazz of Si Dolce e il Tormento (Diatribe Recordings, 2009) and the more brooding, improvised Fotografia (Diatribe Recordings, 2011) were united by Turrisi's mostly spare voice as much as they were by the folk, classical and jazz threads from which he draws inspiration. Here, Turrisi ...

Article: Album Review

Karin Hammr, Chris Jennings, Ingrid Jensen, Patrick Goraguer: Land

by Ian Patterson
September 2, 2012

Given the vast, wide-ranging collective experience of the four musicians, which runs the gamut from bop to big band, from South African jazz-fusion to pop, and from Brazilian music to more experimental fields, a more obviously eclectic recording wouldn't have been a surprise. Instead, the music on Land has a distinct, unified identity. Songwriting credits are ...