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Article: Album Review

Hear In Now: Not Living In Fear

Read "Not Living In Fear" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


A otto anni dal loro incontro e dopo cinque dall'uscita del primo album, Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid e Silvia Bolognesi -ovvero il fantastico trio d'archi al femminile Hear in Now -tornano con un nuovo CD, ancorché registrato in due sessioni del 2012 e del 2014. Nel frattempo non solo le tre protagoniste hanno continuato le loro ...

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Nick Mazzarella and Tomeka Reid: Signaling

Read "Signaling" reviewed by Troy Dostert


On this captivating, fully-improvised duo recording by alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella and cellist Tomeka Reid, we find a superlative example of two leading-edge musicians who continue to draw vital inspiration from their forbears. Reid, a contributing member of the hugely influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), has previously paid tribute to some of ...

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Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die

Read "Fly Or Die" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Improvisational trumpeter and electronics artist Jaimie Branch, a Chicago native, began playing trumpet at the age of nine. Doing double-duty, she has also worked around her home town as a sound engineer for Tim Daisy and Ken Vandermark. A relative newcomer, Branch moved to New York to complete a Master's degree in in Jazz Performance and ...

Article: My Favourite Things

Amina Claudine Myers

Read "Amina Claudine Myers" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Il tratto principale della mia musica. Il piano e la voce gospel delle origini, che suonavo da ragazza. Questo era durante il periodo del Gospel classico, in cui gruppi al femminile come Clara Ward, The Davis Sisters e le Gospel Harmonettes' andavano in radio e facevano concerti. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti ...

Article: Album Review

Dan Blake: The Digging

Read "The Digging" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Album interessante per trasversalità stilistica e uno spirito di ricerca che emerge fin dal titolo, questo The Digging è opera del sassofonista Dan Blake, accompagnato in trio senza pianoforte dal contrabbassista Dmitry Ishenko, con il quale ha una lunga collaborazione, e dall'ottima batterista Eric Harland. Blake è autore di tutte le composizioni e vi ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Alex Cline's Flower Garland Orchestra: Oceans of Vows

Read "Alex Cline's Flower Garland Orchestra: Oceans of Vows" reviewed by John Kelman


Despite being a key participant in the “Left Coast" scene of more avant-leaning music from the American west coast--in particular, part of the Cryptogramophone imprint that, while less active than in its “glory days" during the first years of the new millennium--Alex Cline releases so infrequently as a leader that any new music from the percussionist/composer ...

Article: Album Review

Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Read "Daylight Ghosts" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Misterioso. E imperscrutabile. Si presenta così il nuovo album di Craig Taborn. Perché le certezze del primo brano -oh, ecco il Taborn che conosciamo, il suo approccio, i punti fermi del suo stile, le linee guida della sua estetica in bella evidenza -svaniscono nel resto del lavoro. Dove ci si addentra progressivamente e irrimediabilmente in una ...

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Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Read "Daylight Ghosts" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


In addition to his copious sideman work (including multiple recordings with James Carter, Roscoe Mitchell, Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, and Chris Potter, among many others) pianist/keyboardist Craig Taborn has found time to record intermittently as a leader since 1994's Craig Taborn Trio (IDW). This is his third ECM album, following the solo Avenging Angel (2011) and ...

Article: Live Review

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

Read "Roscoe Mitchell Sextet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Roscoe Mitchell Sextet plays Coltrane Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 29.01.2017 Il “Roscoe Mitchell Sextet plays Coltrane" è un progetto ideato da Aperitivo in Concerto per celebrare la figura di John Coltrane nel cinquantesimo anniversario della morte. Dubbi e sospetti si insinuano tra i fans incalliti del leggendario ...

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Article: Album Review

Mats Gustafsson & Craig Taborn: Ljubljana

Read "Ljubljana" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Congratulations to whomever conceived of this pairing of two improvised music giants. Pianist Craig Taborn and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, both born in the great white north (so to speak), Taborn in Minneapolis and Gustafsson, Umeå, in Northern Sweden. Both are original and distinctive improvisers whose paths had never crossed until the 2015 Ljubljana Jazz Festival.


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