Home » Search Center » Results: Rob Mazurek
Results for "Rob Mazurek"
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012
by Ted Harms
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...
What Is Jazz Now?
by Dom Minasi
Back in February, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman asked me to develop a column based on points I made in the comment section of the article BAM or JAZZ: Why It Matters. I still feel the same way, but trumpeter Nicholas Payton's statement that jazz died in 1959 made me think, and I've been ...
Ljubljana Jazz Festival: Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 20–29, 2012
by Henning Bolte
Ljubljana Jazz FestivalLjubljana, SloveniaJune 20-29, 2012Ljubljana, with its 53rd edition, truly hosts the oldest jazz festival in Europe. Norway's Molde, also a candidate, started one year later, in 1960. The capital of the now-independent Republic of Slovenia, neighbored by Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy, Ljubljana is situated one hour from Trieste, two hours ...
Yes. But Is It Jazz?
by Mark Corroto
Jazz comes at you from so many directions these days, that to rely on just one definition, is not enough. Sure, it can be a blues-based rhythmic music but it is also minimalist free improvisation. Pigeonholing something, such as jazz, always separates and eventually segregates supporters, creating conflicts and in the end lessening the whole.
Adam Rudolph & Ralph Jones: Sound Travelers on the Cosmic Path
by Jakob Baekgaard
Sound is everywhere around us. When we live, we experience life as sound and sight. Words, rhythms and vibrations are part of the way we communicate and perceive the world.Music, at its best, is a special way of communicating through sound. The message cannot and should not be translated into words. Instead, the sounds ...
Rodrigo Amado: Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro
by Mark Corroto
Rodrigo Amado's improvising Motion Trio might be better described as The Confluence Trio or Conflux, because its sound is a meeting of rivers. Like the three rivers of Pittsburgh, where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers join to create the Ohio River, or Sangam, India where the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati meet, the music of the Motion ...
Enzo Carpentieri Circular E-motion: Everywhere Is Here
by AAJ Italy Staff
Batterista tra i più versatili del jazz italiano contemporaneo, Enzo Carpentieri è attivo professionalmente dalla metà degli anni ottanta. S'è fatto le ossa accanto a Urbani, Odorici, Atti e accompagnando svariati protagonisti mainstream ma ha dimostrato ottime doti anche in contesti più avanzati come il Lunar Quartet di John Tchicai, col pianista Greg Burk e il ...
Rob Mazurek e São Paulo Underground a Bolzano
by AAJ Italy Staff
Piccolo Teatro Carambolage - Bolzano - 20.02.2012 La stagione musicale al Piccolo Teatro Carambolage di Bolzano riserva spesso sorprese di grande pregio, in un luogo dove la musica è fruibile in modo ideale, a stretto contatto con i musicisti. Il trio brasiliano del trombettista Rob Mazurek, São Paulo Underground, sulla scena del Piccolo Teatro lo scorso ...
Starlicker: Double Demon
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come un novello Re Mida, con la cornetta al posto dello scettro, Rob Mazurek da qualche anno trasforma in oro tutto quel che tocca. È successo all'Exploding Star Orchestra, in ogni sua forma e incarnazione, al quintetto Sound Is, al Chicago e al São Paulo Underground, miscelati o presi singolarmente; non poteva non succedere al trio ...
Double Demon
By Rob Mazurek
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Double Demon; Vodou Cinque; Orange Blossom; Andromeda; Triple Hex; Skull Cave.
Showcase
Giveaway
