Results for "Sylvie Courvoisier"

Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal

by Glenn Astarita
March 23, 2010

Violinist Mark Feldman and his wife, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier eloquently morph restraint, depth and a contemporary classical touch into the progressive-jazz idiom on this 2010 release. Respectively, the musicians are ceaselessly engaged within the new music style of jazz and improvisation, having recorded for several record labels, spanning several years. No doubt, the duo's venerable artistic ...

John Zorn: Femina

by Martin Longley
March 8, 2010

There are two notable elements to this album, before even listening to its contents. One is that composer John Zorn has created a work that pays tribute to female creators (his name checks include Yoko Ono, Agatha Christie and Joan Of Arc). The other is that he's making a return to his fabled file-card system of ...

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

March 2, 2010

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 ...

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

February 19, 2010

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.

As Soon as Possible

By Sylvie Courvoisier

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.

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

by Gordon Marshall
December 26, 2009

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. ...

Live at Loft

Featuring the music of Sylvie Courvoisier
Duration: 8:45
December 10, 2009

John Zorn: Femina

by Mark Corroto
November 14, 2009

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 ...

John Zorn: Femina

by Troy Collins
November 10, 2009

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 ...

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

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2009

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 ...