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Will Bernard: Just Like Downtown
by Angelo Leonardi
A partire dalla fine degli anni novanta, ovvero dal tempo dei suoi esordi da leader, Will Bernard s'è caratterizzato per il contagioso groove della sua musica, in uno spettro di situazioni che va dalle contaminazioni contemporanee al classico organ trio, reso celebre da Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery o Jack McDuff. A differenza di ...
Bergamo Jazz 2014
by Libero Farnè
Teatro Donizetti--Teatro Sociale--Auditorium--Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo 16-23.03.2014 La trentaseiesima edizione di Bergamo Jazz, che ha coinciso con il piovoso irrompere della primavera, presentava un cartellone sulla carta molto interessante, uno dei più stimolanti degli ultimi decenni, congegnando il giusto mix fra nomi di grosso richiamo e nomi ...
Save the Date - Marzo
by Luca Canini
Sito nuovo, nuova rubrica. Inauguriamo oggi uno spazio segnalazioni che diventerà un appuntamento mensile. Una sorta di breve guida al meglio del meglio di quel che offrono i palchi italiani e non, i concerti e i festival che a nostro giudizio (a nostro insindacabile e inoppugnabile giudizio) meritano di essere raccomandati. Nulla di ragionato o di ...
Myra Melford's Language of Dreams at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
by Harry S. Pariser
Myra Melford's Snowy Egret Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA November 8, 2013 Within the intimate confines of the YBCA Forum in the heart of San Francisco's museum district, a gray, out- of-focus video screened a country road. On one platform set directly under the screen, piano, drums, ...
The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion at the Musical Instrument Museum
by Patricia Myers
The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, AZ October 18, 2013 The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion was promoted as a tribute to jazz icons Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk. When just two of those artists were musically referenced and Monk was not, it likely was noticed only ...
Ligeia Mare: Songs We Never Thought Of
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sophomore release of the Colorado-based aggregate of musicians Ligeia Mare, is based on similar recordings that were the basis for the quintet's debut 1 (2012). Songs We Never Thought Of distills its live, spontaneous improvisations into loosely structured sonic events. True to the inspiration for its name, the lake in the north polar region of ...
Elliott: Girls with Radical Haircuts
by Eyal Hareuveni
The three young Danish musicians who comprise Elliott-- guitarist Alex Jønsson and double bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen, two-thirds of the indie-pop-jazz Foyn Trio! with Norwegian vocalist Live Foyn Friis, and trumpeter Jakob Sørensen, are aware of all music that was created in the last one hundred years. As the trio declares: “we already have everything from ...
The Rosenthals: Fly Away
by Dan Bilawsky
In many ways, trumpeter Daniel Rosenthal has always been the odd man out in the Rosenthal clan. The members of this tight-knit, literal-cum-musical family have long been known as a folk and bluegrass breed, but Daniel took a turn toward jazz and never looked back; that is, until recently. After leaving the New ...
Hashem Assadullahi: Pieces
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Hashem Assadullahi and his core band returned to the studio to release an exceptionally strong sophomore effort with Pieces. The Texas born-Northwest cured-New York-based musician revealed his penchant for melody on his prior release Strange Neighbor (8bells, 2009). Here he builds upon that foundation with a scattering of themes from pop tunes, avant-garde leanings, and ...
Two Sides of Ben Goldberg
by Troy Collins
Developments in the evolving recording industry have inspired an increasing number of musicians to form their own labels. San Francisco-based clarinetist Ben Goldberg, a veteran of the 1990s Downtown New York scene, joined many of his peers in 2009 with Go Home, the inaugural release of his BAG Production Records imprint. Goldberg's prior efforts, issued by ...
