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News: Festival

It's Trumpet Time with the Festival of New Trumpet at Vision Festival 16

June 6, 2011

Festival of New Trumpet makes its contribution to Vision Festival 16 and offers a detailed interview with Ted Daniel including this summary below. FONT: What is your relationship to King Oliver's playing? TD: King Oliver's improvisations were blues based, rhythmically intricate and his sound, which he constantly worked on, was highly personal and original. He was ...

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News: Advocacy

John Zorn Presents Three Special Benefit Concerts for Japan

March 19, 2011

In the wake of the disaster that struck the country of Japan and the still unresolved dangers its people now face, composer and saxophonist John Zorn has organized three special benefit concerts in New York City. Shows will be held at Columbia University's Miller Theater, the Abrons Arts Center, and the Japan Society to raise funds ...

Article: Album Review

Mark Feldman - Sylvie Courvoisier: To Fly to Steal

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2011

Si può essere troppo bravi? Sotto le spoglie di una domanda all'apparenza sciocca si nasconde un'annosa questione. Il virtuosismo come zavorra: da risorsa a limite, da mezzo a fine. Chitarristi che sfrecciano alla velocità della luce senza avere uno straccio di idea. Tastieristi da competizione per musica da circo. Non c'è peggior razza degli inutili virtuosi. ...

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Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival, September 8-12, 2010

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 17, 2011

Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, CanadaSeptember 8-12, 2010 Some music festivals are holidays and some are expeditions. The annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium in Ontario has a way of being more safari than respite. The days are long, with lectures and panel discussions on some days beginning at 9:00am and concerts on others ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Zorn: Dictee / Liber Novus

by Warren Allen
January 14, 2011

John ZornDictée / Liber NovusTzadik2010 If the ever-productive multi-instrumentalist John Zorn's compositional oeuvre yields one simple theme, it is the sheer variety of his interests and vision. Perhaps none of his personal oeuvres better encapsulate this than his file card compositions. These are usually extended pieces that consist ...

Album

To Fly To Steal

By Sylvie Courvoisier

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Messiaenesque; Whispering Glades; The Good Life; Five Senses Of Keen; Fire, Fist And Bestial Wall; Coastlines; To Fly To Steal.

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News: Interview

Violinist Mark Feldman Interviewed at AAJ

June 17, 2010

Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and ...

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Article: Interview

Mark Feldman: Taking an Eclectic Path

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
June 17, 2010

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier: Oblivia & To Fly to Steal

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 12, 2010

Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier Oblivia Tzadik 2010 Sylvie Courvoisier--Mark Fledman Quartet To Fly to Steal Intakt 2010 The composer Olivier Messiaen might seem an odd vista from which to ...

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Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal

Read "To Fly To Steal" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
May 3, 2010

Between the membership of this quartet (Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Thomas Morgan, and Gerry Hemingway) embodies the twenty-first century improvising musician. All four members have recorded before and in a variety of situations of wide diversity. They bring all of the experience this implies to a program that stakes out its own territory, and from start ...