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Steve Kuhn: Non-Fiction

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
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Article: Lyrics

Agosto, festival miei non vi conosco. Mentre al di là delle Alpi è tempo di gustosissime abbuffate (Willisau, Saalfelden, Mulhouse, Lisbona: fatevi un giro sui siti dei giganti europei), in Italia impazzano le sagre balneari e gli eventi vacanzieri. Poco da salvare. E francamente fa una certa tristezza leggere i programmi di rassegne ...

Article: Live Review

Sheila Jordan & Steve Kuhn Trio at Birdland

by Tyran Grillo
May 29, 2015

Sheila Jordan & Steve Kuhn Trio Birdland New York, New York April 3, 2015 Sheila Jordan is a natural. Still going strong at 86, she does more than sing with her voice. She plays it like an instrument. Like any great jazz improviser, she bends notes to their expressive potential, traveling ...

Article: Live Review

Logan Richardson Quartet al Teatro Parenti di Milano

by Paolo Peviani
April 28, 2015

Teatro Franco Parenti Milano 26.04.2015 Se credete che il jazz sia musica notturna, una visita a Milano potrebbe minare le vostre convinzioni. Il rito jazzistico ambrosiano prevede infatti che molti dei concerti più interessanti ospitati in città abbiano luogo la domenica mattina. Alla ormai trentennale rassegna Aperitivo ...

Article: Album Review

Chris McNulty: Eternal

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2015

Eternal is a work of love and loss, a celebration of life, and a poignant piece of artistic expression. Vocalist Chris McNulty crafted this album as a tribute to her son, Sam, who passed away in 2011. This album took shape in the days following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as McNulty, with no ...

Article: Rediscovery

Steve Kuhn: Non-Fiction

by John Kelman
February 18, 2015

Steve Kuhn Non-FictionECM Records1978 Today's Rediscovery is another title that falls into the category of “begging to be issued on CD for the first time. When ECM Records released Life's Backward Glances--Solo and Quartet in 2009--part of its Old & New Masters Edition series of box sets that gathered together various ...

Article: Live Review

Bologna Jazz Festival 2014

by Libero Farnè
November 24, 2014

Bologna e Ferrara 28.10-22.11-2014. Il Bologna Jazz Festival non è certo un festival che perlustra il fermento dell'attualità, che espone le proposte più “forti" e innovative della ricerca americana ed europea, ma non si può nemmeno definire un appuntamento di mainstream nel senso stretto della parola. Salvo rare eccezioni, l'ottava edizione del ...

Article: Book Review

Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan

by Ian Patterson
November 12, 2014

Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan Ellen Johnson 234 pages ISBN: 978-0-8108-8836-4 Rowman & Littlefield 2014 That Ellen Johnson's revealing portrait of Sheila Jordan is the first full biography of the eighty five-year old Pennsylvanian-born singer reaffirms the notion that the dominant jazz narrative has always lionized ...

Article: Interview

Sheila Jordan: Now's The Time

by Ian Patterson
November 12, 2014

Sheila Jordan, one of the last great jazz vocalists from the bebop era turns eighty six on 18 November. Happy Birthday Sheila! There's much to celebrate. The Pennsylvanian-born singer's remarkable life story has just been published--the first complete biography to cover Jordan's life and career in detail. Written by Ellen Johnson over seven years, Jazz Child: ...

Article: Album Review

Solveig Slettahjell: Various Artists: Norwegian Woods - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II

Read "Various Artists: Norwegian Woods - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
August 9, 2014

One night, six Norwegian artists--three of them together in a group for a decade. Such ideas can look great on paper, but turn out less than inspiring in reality. Fortunately, beyond the individual talents involved, there's been enough interconnectivity between singer Solveig Slettahjell, keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, guitarist Knut Reiersrud and the members of In the Country--keyboardist ...