Results for "Robin Fincker"

Daniel Rosenboom, Deep Ford, Dayna Stephens and More

by Maurice Hogue
February 19, 2020

The feature artist is Los Angeles trumpeter Daniel Rosenboom who stokes the fires of outrage and concern for current politics and society on his new Absurd in the Anthropocene. There are plenty of new releases from European artists: Deep Ford, the very ambitious trio of keyboardist Benoit Delbecq, saxophonist Robin Fincker and drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq, Phronesis ...

Mondo Jazz Turns 100! Zeno De Rossi, Vincent Courtois, Tim Berne and New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 18, 2020

This week Mondo Jazz turns 100 episodes old. So we open with the uplifting “celebration" by South African pianist Bheki Mseleku before delving into what we like best, unearthing precious gems from around the world. In this segment we feature another great stack of new releases, including the upcoming The Fantastic Mrs. 10 by Tim Berne's ...

Jazztopad 2019

by Henning Bolte
February 15, 2020

Vincent Courtois Trio Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music, Mleczarnia Club Jazztopad Wroclaw November 21-24, 2019 On my arrival in Wroclaw, on the way to the reverend National Forum of Music (NFM), the first familiar face I met in the street was Mateusz Rybicki, a musician that has ...

Robin Fincker

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Jazzdor Berlin

by Henning Bolte
June 29, 2018

Kulturbrauerei (Prenzlauer Berg) Jazzdor Berlin June 5-8, 2018 Jazzdor Berlin is a satellite of the Jazzdor Festival of Strasbourg founded 31 years ago. This year's 12th edition of the Franco-German festival held as usual at Kulturbrauerei, an abandoned brewery in Berlin borough Prenzlauer Berg, presented 11 groups with 40 musicians during four ...

Jazztopad 2015

by Henning Bolte
December 17, 2015

National Music Forum Jazztopad 2015 Wroclaw, Poland November 21-25, 2015 The city of Wroclaw by the Odra River in the southwest of Poland has occupied a pre-eminent position throughout its long, turbulent history, and it still does. Wroclaw's Jazztopad festival is a relatively young one. This year celebrated had ...

Scene Norway 2 at King's Place

by John Kelman
December 13, 2013

Scene Norway 2 Artist-in-Residence: Nils Petter Molvær King's Place, London, UK November 15-17, 2013 Walking into King's Place, in London, England, is an experience in itself. A building opened in 2008 near King's Cross station in downtown London, it was built with the kind of foresight that is rare these ...

Straw, Sticks & Bricks

By Robin Fincker

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Kitchen in the Middle; 02. Bleak Sylvette; 03. Fool; 04. Luna Verde; 05. Golfo; 06. Reverse; 07. We Need Two; 08. Alignment; 09. Long Notes.

Twice

By Robin Fincker

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD 1: 1. Mummy's Boy 05:55; 2. She Languishes 05:00; 3. Hall C 05:53; 4. Country Life 06:09; 5. No 7 03:52; 6. Crunch 05:52; 7. Waltz 03:18; 8. Underfoot 07:39; 9. Image 02:58. CD 2: 10. Camoodi part I + II (live with Vincent Courtois) 12:58; 11. Luna Verde (live with Vincent Courtois)08:12; 12. No 7 (live with Vincent Courtois) 06:01; ; 13. Waltz (live with Vincent Courtois) 05:26; 14. In Two Minds (live with Vincent Courtois) 07:54.