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Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2013
by Troy Collins
Considering the sheer quantity of recordings issued in a year's time, attempting to mention every notable session would result in a list of epic proportions. These ten records represent a fertile cross-section of some of the most compelling modern jazz issued in 2013, highlighting sophisticated new developments in composition and improvisation with an unintended (but entirely ...
Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra: The Space Between
by Hrayr Attarian
Musical adventurer Rob Mazurek's The Space Between is a provocative and heady fusion of sight and sound. The double disc set includes an audio CD and a DVD containing performance and multimedia artist Marianne M. Kim's haunting, abstract video accompaniment to the music. The forty-minute suite is divided conveniently, and perhaps whimsically, into eight ...
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Ensemble: The Space Between
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella propria vita, a mano a mano che un artista “vero" cresce (in ogni senso), porta con sé la complessità del proprio essere, comprese le essenze creative che muovono la sua attività. Se poi, come Rob Mazurek, ha la fortuna di poter riuscire a vivere mondi e culture artistiche diverse (nel suo caso Chicago, la tradizione, ...
São Paulo Underground: Beija Flors Velho E Sujo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Poteva sembrare un divertissement nel già denso percorso progettuale di Rob Mazurek, quello dei São Paulo Underground e invece eccoci qui al quarto disco, nonché a una continuità concertistica che ci raccontano della centralità della band nel mondo del compositore e trombettista americano. Le ragioni tra l'altro non sono difficili da capire: da sempre aperto alle ...
Phil Grenadier Bruno Raberg Duo: Plunge
by Dave Wayne
The advent of new technologies has enabled musicians to interact in hitherto unheard-of ways. It's routine now to read about recordings that were assembled from sessions recorded by individual musicians in different studios, on different continents. Music composing software has changed the way musicians think about their compositions and opened up new possibilities for the performance ...
Sao Paulo Underground: Beija Flors Velho E Sujo
by Glenn Astarita
Once again this trio sounds like a larger unit and its capricious implementations remain a constant. The band's makeup contains an assortment of keys, percussion, electronics effects and other tools of the trade. Yet Chicago progressive jazz trumpeter Rob Mazurek is the primary soloist, sporting a big brassy tone and imposing presence. The musicians unify the ...
Taking stock, a year half over
by Mark Corroto
This month, at the halfway point in the year of music, we are taking stock, and there have been so many great discs released. Here is my list (in no particular order) of the best albums so far. I predict many of these will make final top ten 2013 lists. Sorry, I couldn't keep my list ...
Sao Paulo Underground: Beija Flors Velho E Sujo
by Troy Collins
Integrating spirited avant-garde jazz improvisation and lo-fi electronica with the revolutionary innovations of Brazil's Tropicalia movement, Beija Flors Velho E Sujo is São Paulo Underground's fourth recording and the first to exclusively feature the variable ensemble's core trio. The group was originally co-founded by Chicago-based cornetist Rob Mazurek and Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Mauricio Takara, whose debut, Sauna: ...
Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra: The Space Between
by Mark Corroto
Like a painting by Mark Rothko, whose canvasses contain rectangular fields of color and light that convey more than a visual experience, the music of Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra transcends a mere audio happening. Rothko's paintings exceeded the aesthetic confines of their canvasses into a spiritual and psychological realm. Likewise, Mazurek makes visually ...
Rob Mazurek Octet: Skull Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
È successo da qualche parte tra l'esordio dell'Exploding Star Orchestra, We Are All from Somewhere Else, e il varo del quintetto Sound Is. All'improvviso, come per incanto, ogni tassello del mosaico Rob Mazurek è andato magicamente al suo posto. Non che negli anni precedenti fossero mancati i colpi d'ala. Ripescate e riascoltate quanto disseminato dalla metà ...
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