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Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs

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by Mark Sullivan
August 1, 2015

Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has lived in a sound world of his own for many years. World Music usually means borrowing from disparate musical cultures and combining them. But Micus creates World Music for a world of his own creation. He adopts traditional instruments from all over the planet, then combines them in original compositions without referencing ...

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Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

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by Mark Sullivan
June 9, 2015

On some level it must be daunting to play in a piano trio with bassist Gary Peacock. He's a longtime member of the Keith Jarrett Standards Trio (with drummer Jack DeJohnette), arguably the definitive contemporary piano trio. Before that, he worked with the great Bill Evans, and with iconoclast Paul Bley (often in the company of ...

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Paolo Fresu: con di Bonaventura su ECM

by Libero Farnè
March 16, 2015

Gli americani Ralph Towner e Uri Caine, il cubano Omar Sosa, il tunisino Dhafer Youssef, gli italiani Antonello Salis, Furio Di Castri, Gavino Murgia, Gianluca Petrella, perfino l'organista classico Claudio Astronio e il danzatore Giorgio Rossi... La lista dei nomi con cui Paolo Fresu intreccia duetti con maggiore o minore frequenza (e chissà quanti ne ho ...

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Italian Guitars Trio: Italian Guitars Trio

Read "Italian Guitars Trio" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
March 9, 2015

Mentre i duo di chitarre sono del tutto comuni in ambito jazzistico, molto meno frequenti sono le combinazioni di tre o più, prevalentemente per la maggiore difficoltà di trovare un giusto equilibrio tra gli strumenti. Questa proposta spicca dunque nel vasto panorama attuale della musica chitarristica anche perché proveniente da tre musicisti italiani, ovvero Maurizio Brunod ...

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Spin Marvel: Infolding

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by Luca Muchetti
March 6, 2015

Nuove eruzioni dal vulcanico batterista britannico Martin France, alla guida degli Spin Marvel. Il musicista già ascoltato al fianco di Django Bates, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland, Arild Andersen, e Ralph Towner firma quest'anno un nuovo capitolo della sua storia musicale lanciando per RareNoiseRecords Infolding, affascinante e acido sbocco musicale che al jazz ...

Article: Book Review

Impariamo a suonare la chitarra fingerstyle

by Mario Calvitti
January 28, 2015

Nell'accezione comune contemporanea, la chitarra fingerstyle è la più moderna evoluzione della chitarra fingerpicking, ovvero quella tecnica strumentale per suonare la chitarra con le dita (o con dei plettri speciali) nata in ambito prevalentemente folk-blues fin dagli anni '20 dello scorso secolo. Col tempo, le tecniche si sono allargate parallelamente agli orizzonti musicali dei chitarristi che ...

Article: Rediscovery

Piacentini-Bonati-McCandless-Moreno: Circles

by John Kelman
January 27, 2015

Piacentini-Bonati-McCandless-Moreno CirclesNueva1991 Today's Rediscovery will be a challenge for most; few will have heard of the record, and of those that have, even fewer will actually own it. Circles' biggest draw may be Paul McCandless--the reed and woodwind multi-instrumentalist who has, with Ralph Towner and Glen Moore, performed with the genre-busting ...

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Gallery: Gallery

by John Kelman
January 22, 2015

GalleyGalleryECM Records1982 Today's discovery is in my top 10 list of albums screaming for first-time issue on CD by Munich's venerable ECM Records. Gallery was a one-off, teaming vibraphonist Dave Samuels and Oregon's Paul McCandless with cellist David Darling, bassist Ratzo Harris and Michael Di Pasqua--a drummer who, with a resume ...

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David Friesen: Waterfall Rainbow

by John Kelman
January 12, 2015

David FriesenWaterfall RainbowInner City1977 Today's Rediscovery is Waterfall Rainbow, from a bassist who garnered significant attention back in the '70s and '80s, but sadly never sustained it for reasons unknown--certainly nothing to do with his talent--and has, in the decades since, remained an active player, but one largely forgotten by the ...

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Masqualero: Masqualero

by John Kelman
January 8, 2015

MasqualeroMasqualeroOdin1983 Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, there are still those who think that Norwegian musicians can't play “real jazz" (whatever that is), and that what they do play is something consistently (and erroneously) categorized as “Nordic Cool." Submitted for your approval is today's Rediscovery: the self-titled debut from Masqualero, ...