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Will Bernard Finds His Own Path To Jazz Career

by Jim Trageser
Guitarist Will Bernard doesn't consider himself a regular" jazz player. He says this occurred to him when he was being asked to play on some recording sessions in New York. In New York, I've been doing some recordingI did three records for PosiTone, which is more of a jazz label. They're actually ...
Festival Season: From Newport to the North Sea

by David Brown
This week, a survey of recordings from jazz festivals past and present: Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, Montreux Jazz Festival & Jazz Festival Willisau in Switzerland, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Essen Jazz Festival in West Germany, Festival of Improvised Music in France, East-West Festival in Nuremberg Germany, and the North Sea Jazz Festival in the ...
Dave Green Trio plus Evan Parker: Raise Four

by Duncan Heining
Bassist Dave Green recorded this set for the BBC Radio 3 programme Somethin' Else in 2004. In the interview included here with the show's presenter Jez Nelson, Green reflects on a forty year career in jazz. It is fitting that this fine record, only his fourth as leader, sees its release in the year Green marks ...
Federico Calcagno: gli album che sto ascoltando

by Vincenzo Roggero
1. Michele Mazzini, A Flemish Fantasy, (Produzione Indipendente, 2021). Un lavoro sperimentale che nasce durante la pandemia, un collage di suoni sintetizzati e registrati da Michele Mazzini, artista italiano di base ad Amsterdam poco conosciuto, nonché principalmente clarinettista. Una testimonianza interessante di come la creatività non possa essere stroncata, nemmeno da un'emergenza globale. Molti ...
Just in Bin: Delvon Lamarr, Irene Jalenti, Tony Malaby, Omri Ziegele, Marta Sanchez, and more

by David Brown
This week, recent releases, acquisitions and record store finds. Soul sounds from Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Sonny Stitt and Bunky Green, new releases from Tony Malaby, Rob Mazurek and Immanuel Wilkins, classics from Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson and the John Coltrane Trio, and more. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... ...
Gary Bartz At 80: On Jazz Is Dead, Miles Davis And Why Improvisation Is A Dirty Word

by Rob Garratt
It's hard to talk to Gary Bartz about music. Not because he's a difficult or reluctant intervieweequite the opposite. In fact, the 80-year-old saxophonist is refreshingly unguarded and garrulous when looking back over his formidable six-decade musical career. It's just finding the right words that's the tricky part. Like many musicians, jazz isn't one ...
Universal Tonality - The Life and Music of William Parker

by Giuseppe Segala
Universal Tonality -The Life and Music of William Parker Cisco Bradley 408 pagine Duke University Press 2021 Ricordiamo bene l'esibizione della Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, il 31 maggio 1998, al Teatro Nuovo di Verona, menzionata nelle prime righe dell'introduzione di Universal Tonality--The Life and Music of William Parker, ...
Yusef Lateef: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Blowing Cultural Nationalism Out Of The Water

by Chris May
A pioneer of global and modal jazz, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef is only beginning to have his importance in the history of the music properly acknowledged. After languishing off-catalogue for decades, much of his output is being made available once more. A treasure trove of great jazz is out there waiting to be rediscovered. ...
DUX Orchestra: Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results)

by John Sharpe
The cover of the 1994 archival recording Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results) by the DUX Orchestra presents an intriguing line up which combines American free jazzers with Swedish baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Even within the New York City contingent there is diversity, as veteran stickman Walter Perkins (who played with Sonny Rollins, Roland Kirk and ...
Blue Note Records: Lost In Space: 20 Overlooked Classic Albums

by Chris May
For anyone with a passion for Blue Note, it is hard to conceive of an album that has been overlooked," let alone twenty of them. For connoisseurs of the most influential label in jazz history, the passion can be all consuming: if a dedicated collector does not have all the albums (yet), he or she will ...