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Sarajevo Jazz Festival 2016
by Francesco Martinelli
Sarajevo Jazz Festival 2016 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina November 2-6, 2016 When your plane lands in Sarajevo, its wheels roll over the crumbling underground tunnel that was the only connection of the city to the outside world during the Serbian siege from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996. It ...
The Blue Notes and the Brotherhood of Breath - Marching to a Different Drum
by Duncan Heining
Early one August morning in 1964, seven people crossed the border by train passing from South Africa into Mozambique. It was an unusual group of people--five black men, one white man and one white woman. Any “mixing of the races" was, of course, immediately suspicious in apartheid South Africa. The six men--Louis Moholo, Chris McGregor, Dudu ...
Kent Carter Rivière Ensemble: Oratorios and Songs
by John Eyles
Over years, the Emanem label has built a reputation for fine releases by interesting and adventurous string ensembles such as Stellari String Quartet and Barrel. Preceding such groupings, the label released The Juillaguet Collection (Emanem, 1999) by the duo of Kent Carter and Albrecht Maurer on double bass and violin, respectively, and Intersections (Emanem, 2006) by ...
Keefe Jackson, Jason Adasiewicz: Rows and Rows
by Giuseppe Segala
Nella ricca cartografia musicale che alimenta la scena odierna di Chicago, quella successiva alla topica esperienza della AACM e ben descritta da James Falzone nelle note a questo CD, Keefe Jackson e Jason Adasiewicz rappresentano due personalità di rilievo, riscontrabili in molte realizzazioni e collaborazioni. Il sassofonista e clarinettista si è trasferito nella città ...
Bathysphere: Bathysphere
by Angelo Leonardi
Il sassofonista olandese Jorrit Dijkstra e il pianista greco Pandelis Karayorgis vivono negli Stati Uniti da vari anni (il primo dal 2002, il secondo dal 1985). Entrambi sono docenti al New England Conservatory di Boston, sono compositori interessati alla libera improvvisazione e all'elettronica e collaborano nel quartetto Matchbox e nel più noto The Whammies, un ensemble ...
Peter Kuhn: No Coming, No Going – The Music of Peter Kuhn 1978-1979
by John Sharpe
In No Coming No Going, the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint has unearthed a real gem, as part of its continuing exhumation of the New York 1970s loft scene. Reedman Peter Kuhn was a minor presence during the latter half of the decade, releasing three discs under his own leadership, and appearing on dates by Frank Lowe and ...
Dan Blake: The Digging
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Dan Blake is one of those musicians who are always on a quest to expand their musical horizons, to assimilate into his music any and all of his life experiences, musical or not. As both a player and a composer, Blake demonstrates an intensity coupled with a very fertile and searching mind. Aside from his ...
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, ...
Alberto Pinton e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Alberto Pinton: Intenzione e ambizione di creare musica mia, che rifletta la mia esperienza personale, quello che jazz, composizione e improvvisazione significano per me. AAJI: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. A.P.: Totale libertà espressiva, modestia artistica, ...
Keptorchestra meets Steve Lacy: Sweet Sixteen
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ricompare uno storico album del 1994 (incisione del febbraio '93) in cui Steve Lacy, prossimo ai sessanta, si accompagnava alla veneta Keptorchestra. In aggiunta ai nove brani originari, figura oggi, giusto in apertura di CD, l'unica composizione esterna al consesso (ma certo non estranea a Lacy), la monkiana “Straight No Chaser." E fra coloro che nel ...
