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Article: Live Review

I Poeti del Piano Solo 2021

by Neri Pollastri
October 15, 2021

I poeti del piano solo Musicus Concentus Firenze Sala Vanni 1-3.10.2021 Seconda edizione della rassegna fiorentina I Poeti del Piano Solo, organizzata da Musicus Concentus con la direzione artistica di Stefano Maurizi, ancora una volta articolata su tre appuntamenti in giorni successivi e per l'occasione dedicata a pianisti trentenni, già ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jelly Roll Morton, Bruce Forman & Doug Beavers

by Joe Dimino
August 29, 2021

We begin the 714th Episode of Neon Jazz with veteran jazz artist Doug Beavers. We also present a track from John Coltrane off his LP Crescent that inspired Doug journey into jazz. We also take a listen to a number artists releasing new music in 2021 including Yaala Ballin, Steve Feifke, Jihee Heo and Perry Smith. ...

Article: Live Review

Siena Jazz 2021

by Serena Antinucci
August 9, 2021

Durante una chiacchierata con il contrabbassista Paolino Dalla Porta e il batterista Fabrizio Sferra, alla fine della mia permanenza alla cinquantunesima edizione dei Seminari Estivi Internazionali di Siena Jazz, ho capito cosa significhi davvero vivere il jazz. Le lezioni si sono appena concluse e ci ritroviamo nell'atrio della Fortezza Medicea (sede della scuola), prima ...

Article: Interview

Shai Maestro: Human, All Too Human

by Scott Krane
June 25, 2021

ECM recording artist and erstwhile pianist for bassist, Avishai Cohen, Shai Maestro is both a firebrand and a lightning rod. Human, his sixth record as leader and second for ECM, features Jorge Roeder on bass, Ofri Nehemya on drums, and, making his debut in Maestro's combo, Philip Dizack on trumpet. Creamy and richly layered, Human flirts ...

Article: Interview

Arthur Hnatek: On putting the EDM into Jazz & making acoustic music with electronic appeal

by Friedrich Kunzmann
April 2, 2021

Miles Davis and like-minded free-spirited vanguards of his day opened jazz up to countless influences during one of the genre's heydays in the late '60s and early '70s. Ever since, the boundaries of jazz have been broken down more radically, disseminated and increasingly blended with everything from current trends in popular music to classical music and ...

Article: Album Review

Shai Maestro: Human

by Mike Jurkovic
February 17, 2021

That pianist Shai Maestro dreams music is an understatement: With an intense romanticist's heart, he also plays in said dream state. And it is re-affirming to know that, after the hellish year the world has been dragged kicking through, that we can all dream too. Human dreams broadly with sunrises, sunsets and all the ...

Article: Album Review

Shai Maestro: Human

by Chris May
January 25, 2021

After paying his dues with Avishai Cohen, with whose Trio he recorded four well received albums, pianist Shai Maestro cut loose on his own, debuting with Shai Maestro Trio (Laborie) in 2013. Human is Maestro's sixth own-name album and his second on ECM, followingThe Dream Thief in 2018. The new disc is elegant, expansive, emotionally charged ...

Album

High Heart

By Ben Wendel

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: High Heart; Burning Bright; Kindly; Less; Drawn Away; Fearsome; Darling;

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Philip Dizack: If Our Perspective Is Right Then We’re Always in Complete Humility

by Leo Sidran
September 21, 2020

Trumpeter Philip Dizack (named by Downbeat Magazine as “[one of twenty-five] Trumpet Players for the Future") on how he thinks about playing, teaching ("preparing for teaching is the most helpful thing that I've ever done for myself"), practicing ("the more specific your questions are, the more specific your answers will become"), potential ("I hear so far ...

Article: In Pictures

ECM50 At Lincoln Center

by Luciano Rossetti
March 4, 2020

Photos from the “ECM50" celebration held in at The Lincoln Center in New York on November 1st. The special event featured among others: Andrew Cyrille, Joe Lovano, Wadada Leo Smith, Anja Lechner, Avishai Cohen, Bill Frisell, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, Egberto Gismonti, Enrico Rava, Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, Larry Grenadier, Vijay Iyer, Jack DeJohnette, Nik Bartsch, ...