Results for "Ralph Towner"

Take Five with Tom Lagana

by AAJ Staff
May 3, 2010

Meet Tom Lagana:Tom Lagana graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music in 1992 and began his career as a musician in the Walt Disney Jazz Band.Upon returning to Maryland, jazz legend Charlie Byrd took an interest in Lagana after hearing him play in a local coffeehouse saying, “Tom Lagana is one ...

Ralph Towner e Javier Girotto all'Auditorium di Roma

by Mario Calvitti
April 12, 2010

Auditorium -Roma -25.01.2010C'era molta curiosità verso l'inedito duo Towner/Girotto presentato in un concerto esclusivo presso l'Auditorium romano per la rassegna Dialogo. La diversa provenienza artistica dei due musicisti (prettamente latino l'argentino Girotto, jazzista intriso di cultura classica europea Towner) poteva rappresentare sia uno stimolo che un ostacolo; fortunatamente ha prevalso di gran lunga il ...

Absolute Ensemble Featuring Joe Zawinul: Absolute Zawinul

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 6, 2010

Few musicians have left a stamp on modern music as indelible as Josef Zawinul. In an artistic life that spanned over fifty years, playing and absorbing the sounds of nearly every continent, Zawinul not only wrote and played beautiful music on the piano but also extended the horizons of the synthesizer in contemporary music. No one--not ...

Salvatore Bonafede Trio: Sicilian Opening

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 4, 2010

Sicilian Opening from Salvatore Bonafede is a wonderful album. It offers ample reason why Bonafede has been in demand by musicians as diverse as Ralph Towner, Enrico Rava, Dewey Redman, and Lester Bowie. The Italian pianist is an extremely gifted and melodic composer. His songs are utterly fascinating and memorable. They can flutter and soar, like ...

Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM

by John Kelman
March 21, 2010

Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM Edited by Lars Müller Softcover; 448 pages ISBN: 978-3-03778-157-9 Lars Müller Publishers 2010 Long out-of-print, Sleeves of Desire: A Cover Story (Lars Müller Publishers, 1996) has become something of a holy grail for fans of the German ...

Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro

by John Kelman
March 11, 2010

Since moving to Italy over a decade ago, guitarist/pianist Ralph Towner's output as a leader has been woefully infrequent, with only two discs released this decade--2001's Anthem and 2006's Time Line, both on the label that's been his home for over 35 years, ECM. It's not that he hasn't been busy; he continues to work and ...

Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro

by Thomas Conrad
March 10, 2010

After Enrico Rava, the most important trumpet player in Italy is Paolo Fresu. The fact that he is not well known in the United States may be about to change, because he is now an ECM recording artist. The label has placed him with major people: Carla Bley on The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu in ...

Beppo

Featuring the music of Ralph Towner
Duration: 6:29
March 1, 2010

Monster Cable's Miles Davis Tribute In-Ear Headphones

by John Kelman
February 22, 2010

With 2009 the 50th anniversary of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis' biggest selling and highly influential Kind of Blue (Columbia/Legacy, 1959), it's no surprise that folks are coming out of the woodwork to capitalize on this significant milestone. Collector's, Legacy and vinyl editions of the album have all been released by Columbia/Legacy, not to mention tributes ...

Chris Jentsch: Cycles and Reflecting on the Journey

by Ludwig vanTrikt
February 9, 2010

John Coltrane once said, “Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his music in his own words. “I think of myself as a composer/guitarist working with contemporary improvisational ...