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How (Not) To Listen To Early Jazz
by Andrew J. Sammut
Jazz listeners may admit that early music got things to where they are now, similar to how the Model T made the Lamborghini possible. Most just prefer not to drive anything too old. For most listeners, early jazz remains an esoteric and even a strange experience. Perhaps it's all that monochromatic footage of ...
Barcelona Voll-Damm Jazz Festival: Barcelona, Spain, November 24-30, 2012
by Bruce Lindsay
Barcelona Voll-Damm International Jazz FestivalBarcelona, SpainNovember 24-30, 2012Sometimes picking a few festival highlights is easy. A big name turns on the charm, one or two young Turks announce their arrival on the scene, someone famous steps up at a jam session--the rest is okay, just nothing special. The Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival ...
Sonny Rollins: Barcelona Voll-Damm Jazz Festival, Spain, November 20, 2012
by Josep Pedro
Sonny RollinsPalau de la Música44 Barcelona Voll-Damm International Jazz FestivalNovember 20, 2012Traditionally marked in the calendar for being fascist dictator Franco's death anniversary, November 20--or 20-N, as referred to in Spain--has frequently been accompanied by some infamous demonstrations where the restrictive and attacking attitudes that would, by now, hopefully be a ...
44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona: Sonny Rollins
by Joan Fargas
Sonny Rollins44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaPalau de la Música Catalana 20 de noviembre 2012En ocasiones los conciertos se transforman en veladas muy especiales por una suma de circunstancias que van más allá de la música que se interpreta en el escenario, tal como sucedió la noche del martes ...
Hal Galper Trio: Airegin Revisited
by Dan McClenaghan
Hal Galper's Airegin Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the “elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several distinctive and idiosyncratic trio recordings. Galper, like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal, has gone deeper ...
Fred Hersch: Alive at the Vanguard
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Pianist Fred Hersch's two-disc trio date is called Alive at the Vanguard. It's a very efficient title: it manages to say three important things about the album.On one hand, the title assertively claims the disc's place in the lofty company of other live albums recorded at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York. These ...
Supersilent & John Paul Jones: London, England, November 18, 2012
by John Eyles
Supersilent & John Paul JonesVillage UndergroundLondon Jazz FestivalLondon, England November 18, 2012 By its tenth and final night, the 21st London Jazz Festival, had featured such illustrious names as saxophonists Peter Brötzmann, Jan Garbarek and Sonny Rollins, pianist Herbie Hancock, and guitarists Bill Frisell and John McLaughlin. But, as ...
Li Gao Yang: Locks, Stock and Smoking Barrel
by Ian Patterson
With dreadlocks tumbling over his shoulders, Li Gao Yang already cuts a striking figure. When he's on stage blowing his tenor saxophone and leading his quartet with quiet assurance, the impact is all the greater. Chinese jazz stars are few and far between, at home or abroad, but already this unassuming musician from Beijing has appeared ...
The Greg Abate Quartet Featuring Phil Woods: The Greg Abate Quintet Featuring Phil Woods
by Edward Blanco
Led by reed man, educator and Conn-Selmer clinician Greg Abate, The Greg Abate Quintet Featuring Phil Woods documents an electrifying set of bebop, straight-ahead and Latin styles featuring legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods as its marquee player. The quintet burns through an exciting ten-piece repertoire of Abate originals complimented by contributions from both Woods and pianist ...
Origin Records Has Just Released The Hal Galper Trio's Latest Foray Into Their Original "Rubato Style" Of Playing
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