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Garrison Fewell/Gianni Mimmo: Flawless Dust
by Mark Corroto
With the passing of guitarist Garrison Fewell in the summer of 2015, the jazz world lost an educator, author and an extraordinary talent. Now that we can no longer exchange emails, or receive a music lesson from him, we still can explore his thoughts, via a fascinating book Outside Music, Inside Voices (Saturn University Press, 2014), ...
Peter Kuhn Is Back With A New Trio Recording And His Archive Recordings Reissue
Livin' Right is a product of the amazing NYC loft scene of the 1970s, where players from around the world gathered in a rare period of community, harmony, and creativity, a time when a relative unknown from California could meet and play with the great musicians on this disc. William Parker was already a phenomenon at ...
Vicenza Jazz: fra Italia e America
by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz 2016 Varie sedi 06-14.05.2016 “Di nuovo in viaggio verso la libertà" era il titolo programmatico del festival veneto, sempre sotto la direzione artistica di Riccardo Brazzale: un titolo che da un lato presuppone un'identità forte e storica del jazz, dall'altro sprona in modo propositivo e benaugurale a tenere sempre ben ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans
by Mark Sullivan
Saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom is one of the few jazz players to concentrate solely on the soprano saxophone. In 35 years she has recorded sixteen albums as a leader, most often in a quartet with piano. This is her first trio album, in the company of longtime playing partners bassist Mark Helias and drummer Bobby Previte. ...
La generosità di Jorrit Dijkstra
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Cinquantenne sassofonista di Eindhoven, anima (fra le altre) di The Whammies, gruppo dedito alla rilettura del songbook di Steve Lacy, Jorrit Dijkstra sforna album con una certa generosità tramite la sua etichetta discografica Driff Records, evitando accuratamente i colpi a salve. Jorrit Dijkstra, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Curt Newton Matchbox
Ulrich Gumpert Quartett: A New One
by Giuseppe Segala
Andare in profondità con gli strumenti della leggerezza e dello spiazzamento ironico. Queste le prerogative di Ulrich Gumpert, storico esponente della scena creativa europea, che negli anni Settanta fu cofondatore del quartetto Synopsis insieme a Konrad Bauer, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky e Günter Baby Sommer, tra le cui realizzazioni c'è un album dal titolo che susciterebbe immensa invidia ...
Monkbeatz: Ugly Beauty
by Mark Corroto
Seventy years ago, nobody was playing pianist Thelonious Monk's music, except Monk. One of the originators of bebop, along with Dizzy Gillespie; Charlie Parker, and Bud Powell, he created his own language. As the 1940s turned into the 50s, Monk's music developed its own distinctive parlance. The earliest interpreter of Monk, maybe a better ...
Tutti intorno al piano di Frank Carlberg
by Alberto Bazzurro
Finlandese di nascita e bostoniano d'adozione, il pianista e compositore Frank Carlberg, docente al New England Conservatory e al Berklee College of Music, influenzato da Paul Bley e Ran Blake così come da Jimmy Giuffre, ha collaborato nel tempo con Steve Lacy (ci torneremo), Bob Brookmeyer e Kenny Wheeler, ha scritto musica anche per organici di ...
Uwe Oberg: Work
by Mark Corroto
Work is a fully realized solo recording by German pianist Owe Oberg. He makes a strong case, in the six tracks/eight compositions, for his overflowing abundance of skill and resourcefulness. Recorded in 2008, this disc comes to light (why the wait?) now, with the release of Turns (Leo, 2016) with Silke Eberhard and another solo record ...
Plunge: In For The Out
by Dave Wayne
Trombonist Mark McGrain is one of those guys who follows his own muse. Though he's not particularly prolific, each of his albums as a leader feature some truly profound music-making. In for the Out is no exception. On his fourth album as a leader, McGrain has re-invented himself, playing with an expanded New Orleans-based group and ...
