Results for "Rob Mazurek"

Experimentalists: Talking with Adam Berenson, Dana Jessen, and Abdul Moimême

by Karl Ackermann
June 6, 2019

The newly opened Théatre des Champs-Elysées was sold out on the night of May 29, 1913. The well-heeled Parisian audience had come to enjoy the much-anticipated premiere of Igor Stravinsky's “Rite of Spring" which featured the choreography of the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Some accounts of what transpired that night appear to be exaggerated. ...

Christophe Rocher / Joe Fonda / Harvey Sorgen: New Origin

by John Sharpe
May 11, 2019

As the title implies, New Origin represents a fertile coming together, the principals in this case being the veteran American rhythm team of bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Harvey Sorgen, with French clarinetist Christophe Rocher. Fonda and Sorgen share a lengthy association, which encompasses the long-running Fonda/Stevens Group and a trio of more recent vintage with ...

Tobias Wiklund: Where the Spirits Eat

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 6, 2019

Who is the man behind the beard? This is the question one could be tempted to ask when seeing the cover of the young Swedish-born cornetist Tobias Wiklund's album, Where the Spirits Eat. The eyes of the horn-player are hidden, but if the saying goes that the eyes are the windows to the soul, there's no ...

The Sounds of Saxophones

by Jerome Wilson
April 26, 2019

The saxophone continues to be one of the cornerstone instruments of jazz. Here are three recent recordings that demonstrate different approaches to the use of saxophones in the music. Jordan Pettay First Fruit Outside In Music 2019 Jordan Pettay is a young Julliard graduate who makes her ...

Alexander Hawkins: Iron Into Wind

by John Sharpe
April 14, 2019

On his second solo album pianist Alexander Hawkins creates an adventurous and deeply personal synthesis which draws from both jazz and classical wellsprings. One of the foremost representatives of an exciting younger generation of British musicians, his talents are on display not only on his own projects, like Uproot (Intakt, 2018), but with growing circle of ...

Peter Evans / Sam Pluta: Two Live Sets

by Mark Corroto
March 2, 2019

The most extraordinary music ever presented has elicited the same time-honored “what the f@#k was that?" response. From Elvis (both Presley and Costello) to Grandmaster Flash, Igor Stravinsky, and Charlie Parker, the “shock of the new'" (to borrow a phrase from art critic Robert Hughes) adjusts listeners' criteria for judging a composition or performance, and often ...

Marfa Loops Shouts and Hollers

By Rob Mazurek

Label: Harmonipan
Released: 2018
Track listing: Falling Down; From the Sky; Like Some; Damned Ghost; Delayed; Delayed2; Too Long; Caged; By Force; Fire and Time; Placed at Last; On This Hill; Of Mine; Sweet Wooded; Slope; Of Golden; Summer; Where Time; Rolls On; Undone; As the Wind; As the Wind2; Falling Down From the Sky; Like Some Damned Ghost; Delayed, Delayed.

Gabriele Mitelli and Rob Mazurek at Sant'Anna Arresi Festival 2018

by Danilo Codazzi
November 28, 2018

Matt Piet & His Disorganization: Rummage Out

by John Sharpe
November 10, 2018

Perhaps it was pianist Matt Piet's appearances with esteemed reedman Dave Rempis on the co-operative Hit The Ground Running (Aerophonic, 2016) which first started to garner him attention, but he is certainly beginning to gain a reputation in his own right, a trend which can only be furthered by the release of Rummage Out. Piet set ...

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2018

by Luciano Rossetti
November 8, 2018

Photos from the “Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2018" Festival held in Sant'Anna Arresi, in the south of Sardinia from the September 1st to 9th, featuring, among others, Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra, Roots Magic, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and his The Young Mothers, David Murray, Radian, Joe McPhee, James Brandon Lewis and Chad Taylor Duo, ...