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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2014

Here are eleven new releases, reviewed at All About Jazz, which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Nicole Mitchell The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art Records) Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. On their second outing she ...

Article: Live Review

November Music 2014

by Henning Bolte
November 21, 2014

November Music s' Hertogenbosch November 8-9, 2014 November Music is a festival of contemporary music, new music in the broadest sense, held in the medieval town of s'-Hertogenbosch in the southeast of The Netherlands and home of painter Jheronimus Bosch (1450-1516). Besides the core of contemporary composers' music there are neighboring branches ...

Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Double Windsor

Read "Double Windsor" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 17, 2014

I dieci minuti dell'iniziale title-track valgono da soli il prezzo del biglietto. Non che il resto dello spettacolo sia di secondo piano, ma è in quell'inizio folgorante che riusciamo a cogliere al meglio l'originale vis poetica di Sylvie Courvoisier, pianista di origini svizzere da anni trapiantata a New York. C'è un ostinato sui ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2014

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 15, 2014

Saalfelden 28-31.08.2014 A bocce ferme il 35° Jazzfestival di Saalfelden presentava un programma meno appariscente rispetto a precedenti edizioni, con meno densità di nomi altisonanti e meno eventi imperdibili. Ma forse proprio per la mancanza di aspettative clamorose, grazie alla solida direzione artistica tra certezze e curiosità e per quelle alchimie speciali che regolano ...

Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Double Windsor

Read "Double Windsor" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte
August 28, 2014

The piano trio is the supreme discipline in jazz. Through rich possibilities, it functions as a strong filter sifting out those few who were and are able to set new standards. What matters is how the three instrumental vertices relate to each other dynamically, harmonically and soundwise to build something coherent, in close dependency. Eventually, each ...

Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: Birdies for Lulu

Read "Birdies for Lulu" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 19, 2014

Sodalizio ampiamente collaudato, quello tra la pianista svizzera e il violinista chicagoano, che in questo nuovo capitolo, inciso a fine 2013, esprime molte delle pieghe espressive che riconosciamo ai due musicisti, sia come singole entità che come coppia. Così il trittico iniziale (inclusa anche la coda finale), frutto della penna di Mark Feldman, ...

Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz: Birdies For Lulu

Read "Birdies For Lulu" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 14, 2014

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman are a dynamic duo within the neoteric strategies of modern jazz, coupled with their substantial artistic output. They intersperse classical inferences with shades of folk, avant-garde schemas, and bristling improvisational segments into the big picture. This incarnation of the quartet now features upper-echelon session bassist Scott Colley and venerable ...

Article: Live Review

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014

by Henning Bolte
June 6, 2014

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014 Bergen, Norway May 21-25, 2014 Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries-old merchant tradition, ...

News: Event

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Play National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29

May 27, 2014

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman will play the Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29. Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time. Courvoisier has led several groups over ...

Article: Album Review

Vincent Courtois, Daniel Erdmann, Robin Fincker: Mediums

by Anthony Shaw
March 12, 2014

This album of tunes from the cross-border, French-led trio features many elements of their native approaches to improvised music-- exploratory experimentation on the boundaries of the respective instruments, solo work of a high order, and a strong sense of playfulness. The three instruments concerned are all from the middle range of pitch, as ...