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Caroline Davis: Doors: Chicago Storylines

Read "Doors: Chicago Storylines" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Caroline Davis si è fatta le ossa, musicalmente parlando, a Chicago città nella quale coltiva una serie di amicizie eccellenti -il contrabbassista Art Davis e il tenorista Von Freeman su tutti -e dove decide di mettere in piedi il suo attuale quartetto. Diventa quindi un'esigenza storico-affettiva -ora che da qualche tempo si è stabilita a New ...

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Silvia Bolognesi: Chicago Sessions

Read "Chicago Sessions" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Quello di Silvia Bolognesi con Chicago è un rapporto privilegiato, fatto di viaggi, di storia e di miti musicali, di stimolanti frequentazioni concretizzatesi discograficamente nel trio tutto al femminile completato dalla violinista Mazz Swift e dalla violoncellista Tomeka Reid per l'ottimo Hear in Now edito nel 2012. Ritroviamo la violoncellista in questo Chicago Sessions insieme a ...

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Caroline Davis: Doors: Chicago Storylines

Read "Doors: Chicago Storylines" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Doors: Chicago Storylines is altoist Caroline Davis' unique take on oral history. Interweaving original compositions with area musicians' narratives Davis reconstructs the history of Chicago jazz in a uniquely engaging and articulate style. On “Chicago Sound?" for instance, after a discussion on the type of jazz played in various neighborhoods, Davis plays soulfully with ...

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Steel Bridge Trio: Different Clocks

Read "Different Clocks" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Heard at the imaginary music awards ceremony, “and the winner of the quietest and most accessible avant-garde recording of 2015 (dramatic pause), Different Clocks by Steel Bridge Trio." “Accepting the award for the trio is Jimmy Giuffre and Eric Dolphy. If there were such awards, and certainly there should be, Chicagoan Tim Daisy would ...

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Meeting Point

Label: Relay
Released: 2014
Track listing: Lithosphere; Confluence – Introduction; Confluence – Part I; Confluence – Part II; Conversation;; Clothesline; Conversation; Chaos Theory; Conversation; Half Full.

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Russ Johnson: Meeting Point

Read "Meeting Point" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Trumpeter Russ Johnson has been all over the progressive jazz map. He's been an A-list performer for several years. A longtime resident of New York, he recently relocated to Chicago and has become a major contributor to its fertile improvisational scene. On this release, he utilizes the talents of the region's prominent artists who push the ...

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Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: Settle

Read "Settle" reviewed by Dave Wayne


There are ways to get to know people really well, really quickly. Many of these fall under the general category: “challenge them, somehow." For a certain time of my life this meant: “go camping with them." Really. If you go camping with a group of people, you will find out a lot about them in a ...

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I 10 CD nel CD-Player di.... Jeff Albert

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di.... Jeff Albert" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Jason Roebke -High/Red/Center (Delmark -2014). Trovare un buon equilibrio tra forma e libertà in ensemble di medio/grandi dimensioni è veramente difficile. Jason c'è riuscito molto bene in questo disco con alcuni dei miei musicisti preferiti di Chicago. 02. Alvin Fielder/Dave Dove/Jason Jackson/Damon Smith -From-to-From (Balance Point Acoustics -2013). Vi è ...

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Article: Live Review

Dialoghi: jazz per due 2014

Read "Dialoghi: jazz per due 2014" reviewed by Luca Casarotti


Ex chiesa di S. Maria Gualtieri--Sala Politeama Pavia 18.03-10.04.2014 È stata all'insegna dell'ibridazione tra fiati ed elettronica, questa XVI edizione della rassegna Dialoghi: Jazz per due, che si è tenuta a Pavia dal 18 marzo al 10 aprile scorsi. Consueta la location: l'ex chiesa di S. Maria Gualtieri, ...

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Bergamo Jazz 2014

Read "Bergamo Jazz 2014" reviewed 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 ...


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