Home » Search Center » Results: Steve Swallow
Results for "Steve Swallow"
John Scofield's Country for Old Men at the Ardmore Music Hall
by Mike Jacobs
John Scofield's Country for Old Men The Ardmore Music Hall Ardmore, PA September 24, 2016 There are probably only are a handful of guitarists with a catalog as deep and stylistically diverse as John Scofield's. One of the obvious perils that these artists encounter when touring is facing an audience with ...
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow: Andando el Tiempo
by Angelo Leonardi
Carla Bley ha festeggiato gli ottant'anni assieme ai partner a lei più vicini da quando ha smesso di condurre formazioni orchestrali. Oltre a essere suo compagno di vita, Steve Swallow collabora con la pianista e compositrice dalla fine degli anni settanta mentre Andy Sheppard ha iniziato la partnership un decennio dopo. Eppure questo trio, davvero sublime, ...
Sco: Country for Old Men
Earlier this year, guitarist John Scofield won a Grammy for his album, Past Present. Released in 2015, Past Present came on the heels of tough times for Sco—the 2013 passing of his son, Evan, to sarcoma at age 26. Sco's music on the album was haunting and pained, the ache of a father and a family ...
John Scofield: Country for Old Men
by John Kelman
When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very well-received, jazz purists rankled when the largely bluegrass/folk-informed album began to garner awards like Downbeat Magazine's Best Jazz Album of the Year. While Frisell's oftentimes Americana-tinged ...
John Scofield: Country for Old Men
by Maurizio Comandini
La vita spesso sa essere molto crudele. Nella sua lunga parabola artistica il chitarrista John Scofield, nato a Dayton (Ohio) nel dicembre del 1951, ha avuto numerose soddisfazioni di grande spessore, dalle esperienze come sideman nei gruppi di Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, George Duke, Joe Henderson, Billy Cobham ed Herbie Hancock, per citare solo ...
Take Five with Jennifer Bellor
by AAJ Staff
About Jennifer Bellor: Las Vegas-based composer Jennifer Bellor blends contemporary jazz, classical, and popular styles. Her works have been performed by Washington National Opera, Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, UNLV Jazz Ensemble, and many others in the United States and abroad. She earned a 2013 ...
Carla Bley Trio e Stefano Bollani Napoli Trip a Valdarno Jazz
by Neri Pollastri
Valdarno Jazz Terranova Bracciolini e San Giovanni Valdarno 11 e 18.7.2016 Giunto alla ventisettesima edizione, il festival Valdarno Jazz ha anche in quest'anno di crescenti ristrettezze finanziarie offerto un programma di altissimo profilo, curato da Daniele Malvisi, che ha visto la presenza di formazioni di prima scelta del panorama nazionale come ...
Carla Bley: Shoe Leather, Mystery & Moxie
by Ian Patterson
This article was first published at All About Jazz on July 28, 2016. With the passing of time. That's roughly how the title of Carla Bley's second trio album for ECM translates. Bley turned eighty a few months before the release of Andando el Tiempo but the passing years, if anything, have sharpened her ...
Glauco Venier si racconta con Miniatures
by Giuseppe Segala
Miniatures è un piano solo. Ma è anche qualcosa di più, per il modo in cui sono state inserite nel tessuto narrativo le sculture sonore azionate dallo stesso Glauco Venier e per come sono saldate al pensiero che sorregge la musica. La musica respira anche attraverso il dialogo tra pianoforte e sculture sonore, che tracciano una ...
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2016
by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 22 -July 3, 2016 It's hard to believe, with seasons that move quickly from spring into summer, that it was time, once again, for the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. Now in its 36th year, the festival has grown from a weekend event into a full-blown, ...
