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Yarn/Wire Ensemble: Currents 0
by Karl Ackermann
From their roots at Stony Brook University in 2005, the dual percussion/dual piano quartet Yarn/Wire has taken an uncommon approach to experimental music. In the case of Currents 0 the jazz roots are strong even as the interpretations are wide open. A continuing sequence of projects under the umbrella of 'Currents' has generated more than one dozen ...
Glass @ 80: Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso with Jeffrey Zeigler and Asher Delerme
by Peter Jurew
Philip Glass National Sawdust Brooklyn, NY March 12, 2017 On their own, National Sawdust and World Music Institute are two smartly run non-profit cultural organizations that produce wonderful programming for smart, loyal audiences. Together, the two can be dynamic co-conspirators in the effort to stage the kind of riveting, genre-bending artistic ...
Steve Reich @ 80: Music for 18 Musicians
by C. Andrew Hovan
Eighth Blackbird & Third Coast Percussion Hill Auditorium Steve Reich @ 80: Music for 18 Musicians Ann Arbor, MI March 18, 2017 When it comes to contemporary classical music and specifically the genre known as minimalism, few composers lay claim to the accolades bestowed on Steve Reich. Celebrating his 80th ...
Geir Sundstol: Langen ro
by Glenn Astarita
Indeed, there are serene, drifting and stunning passages on this album by longtime Norwegian session musician Geir Sundstol, who after twenty-something years in the business releases only his second solo album, following up Furulund (Hubro, 2015). The accompanying marketing material cites Sundstol as a guitarist and instrument collector, although the CD jacket only lists the musicians, ...
Laura Jurd: Big Footprints
by Ian Patterson
Every few years a band appears that injects a welcome shot of adrenaline into the jazz mainstream, exciting media, promoters and fans alike--the Neil Cowley Trio, Phronesis, GoGo Penguin and Snarky Puppy all spring to mind. Dinosaur, an English quartet led by trumpeter Laura Jurd, is being widely tipped to create such waves on the strength ...
Steve Reich Celebration: Repercussion
by Peter Jurew
Steve Reich Celebration: Repercussion National Sawdust Brooklyn, NY December 10, 2016 As part of the many celebrations of composer Steve Reich's 80th birthday throughout 2016, the World Music Institute and National Sawdust co-presented a program in December that brought the Ghanaian master, Gideon Alorwoyie, together with the critically-acclaimed ...
Steve Reich: The ECM Recordings
By Steve Reich
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD 1: Music for 18 Musicians: Pulse-Sections I-X--Pulse.
CD 2: Music for a Large Ensemble; Violin Phase; Octet.
CD 3: Tehillim Parts I & II: Parts III & IV.
Yves Theiler Trio: Dance in a Triangle
by Neri Pollastri
Nuova prova per il trio dell'interessante pianista svizzero Yves Theiler, a quattro anni dal precedente Out of the Box, rispetto al quale vi è adesso un nuovo contrabbassista, Luca Sisera, mentre rimane alla batteria l'antico collaboratore del leader, Lukas Mantel. La cifra della formazione è molto moderna: forte pariteticità, significativa varietà di atmosfere, ma ...
Steve Reich: The ECM Recordings
by Nenad Georgievski
Celebrated as one of the most significant contemporary American composer-musicians of the late 20th century, Steve Reich successfully dismantled the cemented bedrock of Western Music and rebuilt it in surprisingly innovative ways. One of the founders of the Minimalism movement in classical music, he created music that drew on aspects of Balinese, Yemenite, African and Hebrew ...
Dick Oatts / Mats Holmquist New York Jazz Orchestra: A Tribute to Herbie +1
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo i tributi a Chick Corea e Wayne Shorter, l'orchestratore svedese Mats Holmquist rivolge la sua attenzione alle composizioni di Herbie Hancock, realizzando un album in collaborazione col sassofonista Dick Oatts che è principale solista nonchè co-leader. L'incisione è dell'11 giugno 2014 ma l'idea risale all'anno precedente, con la scelta di un appropriato ensemble ...
