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Jamie Saft: il jazz secondo Iggy Pop

Read "Jamie Saft: il jazz secondo Iggy Pop" reviewed by Luca Canini


Chissà come l'avrebbe presa Bill Laswell se qualcuno nel 1988, durante la lavorazione di Instinct, gli avesse detto che un giorno lontano una trentina d'anni avrebbe contribuito a spingere Iggy Pop sulla strada del jazz. E non del quasi jazz o del jazz pop, ma del jazz quello vero, fatto di arpeggi eleganti e notturni, di ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Swallow

Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Swallow

All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Swallow's birthday today! Steve Swallow was born in New York City in 1940, and spent his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Before turning to the acoustic bass at age 14, he studied piano (with Howard Kasschau, who also taught Nelson Riddle) and trumpet. His otherwise miserable adolescence was brightened ...

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Article: Album Review

Jamie Saft: Loneliness Road

Read "Loneliness Road" reviewed by Doug Collette


Much of Iggy Pop's early notoriety in his days with the Stooges was predicated on shock value. These days his durability and longevity as an artist render his continued presence only slightly less startling: the seminal punk-rocker is hitting his seventieth decade, a milestone few might've forecast for him around the time of Raw Power (Columbia, ...

Article: Album Review

Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte with Iggy Pop: Loneliness Road

Read "Loneliness Road" reviewed by Andrea Murgia


Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte. E Iggy Pop. Se state pensando che stiamo in qualche modo dando i numeri, pardon i nomi, siete totalmente fuori strada. Che ci fanno alcuni tra i più vispi e duttili musicisti della New York Area con il papà del proto-punk? Semplice: un bel disco. Di Saft, ...

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Article: Album Review

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: GIO Sevens

Read "GIO Sevens" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Back in the 60s, there was a pop show on British TV called Thank Your Lucky Stars. It featured a “spin-a-disc" segment, where a DJ and three teenagers scored a clutch of 45s on a scale of one to five. One of these was a girl from the West Midlands called Janice Nicholls, who delighted audiences ...

Article: Album Review

Riverside: The New National Anthem

Read "The New National Anthem" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Nato da un comune interesse per la musica e la figura di Jimmy Giuffre, il Riverside Quartet è una delle numerose formazioni attraverso le quali il trombettista e compositore Dave Douglas veicola le visioni di una mente vulcanica e in perenne movimento. Ad aleggiare come musa ispiratrice, in questa seconda uscita di Douglas e del co-leader ...

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Article: My Playlist

Mats Gustafsson

Read "Mats Gustafsson" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


If Mats Gustafsson's approach to music were to be described with a single adjective, it would have to be “intense." This applies to him both as a musician, as illustrated by over three decades of playing with stalwarts of the free and creative jazz scenes on both sides of the Ocean (Ken Vandermark, Peter Brötzmann, Joe ...

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Article: My Playlist

Mats Gustafsson

Read "Mats Gustafsson" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


1. Hank Mobley, Hank Mobley (Blue Note, 1957). Il disco jazz definitivo?! È tutto perfettamente bilanciato in questa supersession. Il sax tenore è poetico e la tromba di Art Farmer non è mai stata così lirica ed emozionante. Art Blakey è un genio dello swing e la foto di copertina è una delle mie ...

Article: Live Review

Carla Bley Trio all'Auditorium Arvedi di Cremona

Read "Carla Bley Trio all'Auditorium Arvedi di Cremona" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Carla Bley Trio Cremona Jazz 2017 Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi 27.05.2017 Conclusione di gran classe per la terza edizione di Cremona Jazz. Avvolta dalle sinuose forme lignee dell'Auditorium e supportata dalla strepitosa acustica, Carla Bley e il suo trio hanno dato vita ad un'esibizione di grande intensità emotiva, nella quale il carisma ...

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Article: Live Review

Like A Jazz Machine 2017

Read "Like A Jazz Machine 2017" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Like A Jazz Machine Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz Dudelange, Luxembourg May 25-28, 2017 Size, as Like A Jazz Machine knows, isn't everything. The audience in the Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz amounts to just four seated rows downstairs, with a small standing section to the rear, and ten rows ...


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