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Rob Mazurek

Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film and installation, who spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and then Brazil. He currently lives and works in Marfa Texas with his wife Britt Mazurek. Mazurek was born in 1965 in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1975 he moved with his family to a suburb of Chicago where he started playing cornet at the age of 10. A confrontation with the music of Sun Ra at the age of 16 at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1981 had inspired Mazurek to want to become a serious composer performer

Suite For Max Brown

By JEFF PARKER

Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2020
Track listing: Build a Nest; C'mon Now; Fusion Swirl; After the Rain; Metamorphoses; Gnarciss; Lydian, Etc; Del Rio; 3 for L; Go Away; Max Brown.

Good Days

By CHICAGO UNDERGROUND QUARTET

Label: Astral Spirits
Released: 2020
Track listing: Orgasm; Strange Wing; Good Days (For Lee Anne); Batida; All The Bells; Unique Spiral; Lomé; Westview.

Ernst Reijseger, Billy Brooks, Rob Mazurek, Joe Harriott, & More New Releases

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

This week we hit the mother lode, with plenty of undiscovered, or re-discovered, jazz ore, in the form of unreleased live recordings of Joe Harriott and the re-release of Windows of the Mind by the skoonum player and Ray Charles alum Billy Brooks, respectively. Among the new gems, projects of the acoustic (Reijseger, Fraanje, Sylla [pictured]; ...

DST: Kinetic

By GIUSEPPE SEGALA

Il duo DST, nato dall'incontro di Alberto Collodel e Simone Di Benedetto, si era già messo in luce nel 2017, pubblicando Il Sistema Periodico, lavoro ispirato all'opera di Primo Levi, che scavava con atteggiamento riflessivo ed esplorativo nella suggestione della scienza chimica e nella narrazione del grande autore, tra ragione e memoria. Arriva ora al secondo ...

Claudio Vignali: Rach Mode On

By EMMANUEL DI TOMMASO

Dopo l'ottimo esordio di Indu Juggernaut e gli interessanti dischi collaborativi del 2016 Now and Then e Revert, Claudio Vignali prosegue il suo appassionante viaggio alla ricerca di territori sonori inesplorati tornando in studio di registrazione insieme a Daniele Principato, con il quale ha intrapreso fino dal 2012 un percorso di integrazione fra strumenti acustici ed ...

Cene Resnik Free Stellar Trio + Rob Mazurek: Age Of Chaos

By ANGELO LEONARDI

È una lunghissima improvvisazione collettiva di 55 minuti ripresa il 17 maggio 2018 al ventitreesimo Jazz Cerkno Festival. Protagonisti il Free Stellar trio del sassofonista Cene Resnik con ospite Rob Mazurek al piccolo trumpet. Chi non è avvezzo all'estetica della libera improvvisazione può essere indotto in errore dal titolo che non intende riferirsi alla musica prodotta ...

Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet: Re-Collect

By JOHN SHARPE

Trombonist Jeb Bishop doesn't have a whole slew of leadership dates to his credit in spite of being active on the scene since the early 1990s. His most high profile gigs have been as part of the Vandermark 5, and also Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, though he also has Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and the ...

Chad Taylor Trio: The Daily Biological

By GIUSEPPE SEGALA

Chad Taylor è conosciuto in particolare per essere cofondatore, insieme a Rob Mazurek, del Chicago Underground Duo, con le sue varianti nei diversi ampliamenti degli organici. La sua attività si è dipanata ad ampio raggio negli ultimi trent'anni, facendo fulcro sulla scena di Chicago prima, e di New York poi, collaborando tra l'altro con protagonisti storici, ...

James Brandon Lewis / Chad Taylor: Live In Willisau

By MARK CORROTO

Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and drummer Chad Taylor's 2017 studio session Radiant Imprints (Musicube/Off, 2018) was hailed by many critics and fans alike as one of the best recordings of 2018. It was indeed a true revelation, yet that recording wasn't the genesis of a major talent. Lewis' inaugural release Divine Travels (Okeh, 2014) accomplished that ...