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Caroline Davis: Doors: Chicago Storylines
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 ...
Steel Bridge Trio: Different Clocks
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 ...
Meeting Point
By Russ Johnson
Label: Relay
Released: 2014
Track listing: Lithosphere; Confluence – Introduction; Confluence – Part I; Confluence – Part II; Conversation;; Clothesline; Conversation; Chaos Theory; Conversation; Half Full.
Russ Johnson: Meeting Point
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 ...
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: Settle
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 ...
I 10 CD nel CD-Player di.... Jeff Albert
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 ...
Dialoghi: jazz per due 2014
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, ...
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 ...
Eric Erhardt: A Better Fate
by Dave Wayne
Unlike a lot of jazz artists hawking a debut recording these days, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Eric Erhardt is not fresh out of music school. He has been around for a while, playing for two decades in Broadway pit bands and with trad jazzers Ken Peplowski and Artie Shaw. A student of Dave Liebman, Erhardt's own musical interests ...
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