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Article: Album Review

Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Monk Dreams, Hallucinations And Nightmares

Read "Monk Dreams, Hallucinations And Nightmares" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il “pianeta" Monk è stato talmente esplorato negli ultimi decenni che è difficile attendersi qualcosa d'originalmente significativo. Con quest'album orchestrale --la dimensione meno usata nelle revisitazioni del songbook monkiano -il pianista e compositore Frank Carlberg c'è però riuscito: anche se ogni brano s'ispira a un tema di Thelonious, l'elaborazione è personale e non deve stupire se ...

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Article: Interview

A dialogo con Roberto Ottaviano

Read "A dialogo con Roberto Ottaviano" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Poliedrico quanto a collaborazioni ed esplorazioni di aree stilistiche, sempre rigorosissimo nel modo di affrontare qualsiasi situazione musicale, ritenuto dalla critica uno dei maggiori interpreti del sassofono jazz in Europa, Roberto Ottaviano è prossimo a compiere sessant'anni, essendo nato a Bari nel dicembre del '57. E lo fa presentando un ennesimo lavoro di altissimo livello, altro ...

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Article: Album Review

Itaru Oki: Kami Fusen

Read "Kami Fusen" reviewed by John Sharpe


This second instalment from NoBusiness Records collaboration with the Japanese Chap Chap label under the name of trumpeter Itaru Oki constitutes a real find. One of the pioneers of free jazz in his native country, Oki moved to Paris in 1974, subsequently working with many luminaries including saxophonists Steve Lacy, Noah Howard and Sam Rivers, and ...

Article: Live Review

Musica sulle Bocche 2017

Read "Musica sulle Bocche 2017" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Musica sulle Bocche 2017 Santa Teresa Gallura 31.8-3.9.2017 Giunto quest'anno alla sua diciassettesima edizione, il festival “Musica sulle bocche" che si svolge ogni anno alla fine dell'estate in Gallura sulle Bocche di Bonifacio, lo stretto di mare che separa la Sardegna dalla Corsica, è il più giovane degli appuntamenti musicali jazzistici ...

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Article: Album Review

Rova Saxophone Quartet: Steve Lacy’s Saxophone Special Revisited

Read "Steve Lacy’s Saxophone Special Revisited" reviewed by Mark Corroto


If you own a copy of the original Saxophone Special (Emanem, 1975), flip the LP over to view a photocopy of Steve Lacy's original notebook (with spiral binding) score of the compositions “Staples," “Swishes," and “Snaps." This is all music he performed at Wigmore Hall in London in December 1974 in a saxophone quartet that included ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Emanem Releases New Music From Late, Great Heroes Lacy And Rutherford

Read "Emanem Releases New Music From Late, Great Heroes Lacy And Rutherford" reviewed by John Eyles


Based on the practices of some other labels, many consumers might have expected new album releases from Steve Lacy (1934-2004) and Paul Rutherford (1940-2007) to be “newly discovered" live recordings of dubious quality or reissues of past studio recordings with previously unreleased outtakes included. However, two new releases on Emanem--a double CD from Lacy and a ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Lacy

Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Lacy

All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Lacy's birthday today! Steve Lacy, one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time and a New England Conservatory faculty member since fall 2002, died Friday [June 4th, 2004] at New England Baptist Hospital. The jazz master who once defined his profession as “combination orator, singer, dancer, diplomat, poet, dialectician, ...

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Article: Live Review

Udin&Jazz 2017

Read "Udin&Jazz 2017" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Udine Udin&Jazz 2017 Varie sedi 4-8.7.2017 Era dedicata alle contaminazioni con la musica etnica l'edizione 2017 di Udin&Jazz, la ventisettesima della rassegna friulana sottotitolata “EthnoShock!." Come al solito ampio spazio era riservato alle eccellenti proposte più recenti dei musicisti del nord est italiano. Proprio un paio di queste hanno fatto ...

Article: Live Review

Ground Music Festival 2017

Read "Ground Music Festival 2017" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Ground Music Festival Franciacorta e Val Trompia 23.6-2.7.2017 La nascita di un nuovo festival dedicato alla musica improvvisata è sempre da accogliere con grande attenzione ed entusiasmo soprattutto se arriva non per volontà di qualche occasionale investitore o interessato amministratore ma dalla passione, dalla competenza, dalla voglia di mettersi in gioco e ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

15 Italian Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

Read "15 Italian Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


It is not unusual for colleagues and promoters from across Europe and the United States to ask me: “Which Italian jazz musicians should I check out?" For decades, Italy has enjoyed an increasingly prominent place in the vast landscape of European Jazz. The names of some of its most famous players, like trumpeters Enrico ...


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