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News: Recording

Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman Quartet - To Fly to Steal (Intakt)

Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman Quartet - To Fly to Steal (Intakt)

Partners in both music and in life, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman share the marquee on their latest collaboration. Drummer Gerry Hemingway and bassist Thomas Morgan aren't just along for the ride and receptive to a deep rapport, the four create music of superlative communication and cohesion. Their configuration invites immediate chamber associations and ...

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News: Interview

Two on Two: Courvoisier & Feldman Are Both Jazz and Life Partners

Two on Two: Courvoisier & Feldman Are Both Jazz and Life Partners

By Tad Hendrickson Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman have had a long and creative partnership, performing onstage together since 1995 and collaborating on that life project called marriage since 2000. It's an interesting balancing act that some creative couples are never able to reconcile, but these two couldn't see it any other way.

Album

As Soon as Possible

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Sotto Voce; 02. Obvious Obtuse; 03. As Soon As Possible; 04. Nocturne; 05. Mesure d’Ailleurs; 06. Lexington Market; 07. All’Improviste; 08. La fontaine de Mars; 09. Extended; 10. Sequence; 11. Antiphons.

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Article: Live Review

Evan Parker Residency with McPhee, Shipp, Zorn, Courvoisier, et al. at The Stone, NYC

Read "Evan Parker Residency with McPhee, Shipp, Zorn, Courvoisier, et al. at The Stone, NYC" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


Evan Parker Residency The Stone East Village, Manhattan New York, New York October 1-16, 2009 Rivaled only, in recent memory, by Cecil Taylor's 1988 “Kongresshalle" collaborations in Berlin,* Evan Parker's residency at The Stone in East Village, Manhattan was, like those, a string of assorted and inventive pairings. ...

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Video

Live at Loft

Featuring the music of Sylvie Courvoisier
Duration: 8:45

Shot live in concert at Loft in Cologne on November 15, 2006. Directed by Pavel Borodin. For more details see http://pavelborodin.com/courvoisier
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Article: Album Review

John Zorn: Femina

Read "Femina" reviewed by Mark Corroto


John Zorn returns to his famous “file card" technique of composing with Femina, a disc he wrote and conducts with an all-woman lineup, dedicated to women in the arts. Among those honored here are Meredith Monk, Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Kahlo, Madame Blavatsky, Isadora Duncan, Hélène Cixous, Gertrude Stein, Abe Sada, Sylvia Plath, Louise Bourgeois, Margaret ...

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Article: Album Review

John Zorn: Femina

Read "Femina" reviewed by Troy Collins


Composer, bandleader and Tzadik label founder John Zorn has long honored women in the arts, through dedications such as “Redbird" (for Agnes Martin), “Duras" (for Marguerite Duras) and “In the Very Eye of Night" (for Maya Deren), and through Tzadik's Oracles Series, which “celebrates the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music." Femina is his ...

Article: Album Review

Vincent Courtois - Sylvie Courvoisier - Ellery Eskelin: As Soon as Possible

Read "As Soon as Possible" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Se si dovesse pensare ad una nuova Third Stream contemporanea As Soon as Possible, pur non costituendone un tassello imprescindibile, ne farebbe parte in pieno. In effetti il tentativo di coniugare la musica euro-colta con la creatività jazzistica sembra essere uno dei tratti distintivi di questo lavoro del tutto improvvisato. I due punti di partenza dell'incontro ...

Album

Alien Huddle

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Morning Dove; Woodpecker Pecks; Sparkling Sparrows; Night Owl; Robins Quarrel; Dancing Rooster Comp; Whistling Swan; Crow And Raven; Blackbird; Ostrich War; Great White Heron.

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Article: Album Review

Anker / Courvoisier / Mori: Alien Huddle

Read "Alien Huddle" reviewed by Nic Jones


There is something palpably happening in this program of improvisation which lends it distinction. In this trio of reeds, piano, and electronics it's not by any means the latter that is what might be called the rogue element. Instead the coalescence of the music as well as its frenetic moments provide its considerable substance. There's no ...


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