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Metastasio Jazz 2020
by Neri Pollastri
Metastasio Jazz 2020 Varie sedi Prato 29.1-27.2.20 Metastasio Jazz ha quest'anno tagliato il traguardo delle venticinque edizioni e, nonostante il budget certo non da capogiro, ha ancora una volta proposto agli appassionati e al pubblico del teatro pratese un programma di tutto rispetto, che affiancava virtuosamente omaggi alla storia del ...
Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II
by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz Societies, Part 1 briefly traced the preservation and interpretation of jazz from the oral history of its West African roots through academic and cultural institutions. The article included an overview of jazz societies and foundations that further the fostering of jazz education. The organizations vary in scope, size ...
Playing Catch Up With 2019
by Jerome Wilson
There always seems to be a constant flow of worthwhile new music coming out, so much that it is to be impossible to cover it all within its calendar year. Here are seven notable releases from the last few months of 2019. Gebhard Ullmann mikroPULS Intuition 2019 The ...
Adam Rudolph: Ragmala and Prototypical Music
by Franz A. Matzner
Adam Rudolph has been seeking to push the boundaries of musical creativity for decades, developing a unique concept of composition, ensemble interaction, and conducting. As many writers have commented, his music resists critical commentary due to its prototypical nature. Said another way, Rudolph's music doesn't sound like anything else, and its antecedents are so varied that ...
2019: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...
Monorails & Satellites: Works For Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3
By Sun Ra
Label: Cosmic Myth Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Space Towers; Cognition; Skylight; The Alter Destiny; Easy Street; Blue Differentials; Monorails and Satellites; The Galaxy
Way; Astro Vision; The Ninth Eye; Solar Boats; Perspective Prisms of Is; Colundronius; Soundscapes; The Eternal Tomorrow;
Today Is Not Yesterday; World Island Festival; The Changing Wind; Don't Blame Me; Gone With The Wind; How Am I To Know;
Yesterdays.
Pathways To Unknown Worlds
By Sun Ra
Label: Modern Harmonic
Released: 2019
Track listing: Pathways to Unknown Worlds; Extension Out; Cosmo-Media; View from a Mountain Top; Intrinsic Energies; Of Mythic
Worlds.
Jerome Wilson's Best Releases of 2019
by Jerome Wilson
The human voice was the first musical instrument and many of my favorite releases of the past year show how powerful the voice can be, whether the singer is in a choir, part of an instrumental ensemble or leading the band. Of course there were also many purely instrumental releases that were outstanding as well.
Ingrid Laubrock, Aki Takase, Alexandra Grimal and More
by Maurice Hogue
This episode acknowledges a few of the outstanding and important female jazz improvisers who are becoming more and more prominent in the 21st century. You'll hear music from the mutual admiration duo of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and pianist Aki Takase, French saxophonist Alexandra Grimal displaying her talents on three differently focused albums, Estonian take-no-prisoners saxophonist Maria ...
