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Article: Interview

Rui Neves e la scena jazzistica portoghese

by Libero Farnè
March 27, 2014

Nel 2013 su All About Jazz Italia comparve una serie organica di interviste da parte di Enrico Bettinello a protagonisti del jazz italiano (produttori, agenti, direttori artistici...) con l'obiettivo di analizzare i meccanismi e i criteri che caratterizzano la programmazione dei festival jazz nel nostro Paese. A quella meritoria ed esauriente iniziativa si può ricollegare idealmente ...

Article: Album Review

Keith Jarrett / Dennis Russell Davies: Ritual

by John Kelman
February 28, 2014

In pianist Keith Jarrett's vast ECM catalogue, albums on which he does not play aren't exactly common, but nor are they completely uncommon; his 1974 double-disc set In the Light features a handful of tracks on which he performs, but its primary focus is on Jarrett the composer. Ditto Luminessence (1975), a trilogy of compositions for ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Miroslav Vitous Group

by John Kelman
February 25, 2014

With the ongoing demand for historic titles to see first-time CD issue, ECM has raised the ante even further with Re:solutions: seven classic recordings, released on CD (four available for the first time and one previously only available for a limited time in Japan), vinyl and high resolution digital formats. They're all important, but 1981's Miroslav ...

Album

Melodic Warrior

By Terje Rypdal

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Warrior - Awakening; Melodic Warrior - Easy Now ; Melodic Warrior - Song of Thunders; Melodic Warrior - The Secret File; Melodic Warrior - My Music Reaches to the Sky; Melodic Warrior - But Then Again; Melodic Warrior - A Prayer; Melodic Warrior - Magician Song; Melodic Warrior - The Morning Star; And the Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls and Angels - Waterfalls 1; And the Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls and Angels - Waterfalls 2; And the Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls and Angels - Waterfalls 3; And the Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls and Angels - Waterfalls 4.

Article: Live Review

2013 Ultima Contemporary Music Festival

by John Kelman
September 28, 2013

2013 Ultima Contemporary Music Festival Oslo, Norway September 5-14, 2013 Last year's first visit to the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival in Oslo, Norway revealed a rich program that blurred the lines between composition and improvisation in ways few (if any) festivals of its kind do. While the primary reason to attend the ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Introducing Hevhetia Records: The Norwegian Connection

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 25, 2013

Hevhetia Records is a new Slovakian label based in Košice which aims to present the local and East European musical spectrum with a focus on jazz and experimental, alternative music. Since its inception in 2005 this label has released over seventy albums, including recent ones by local pianist Ondrej Krajnak dedicated to the seminal Czechoslovakian pianist ...

Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2013

by John Kelman
September 19, 2013

Punkt FestivalKick Kristiansand, Norway September 6-8, 2013 Punkt is back. Three simple words with greater significance. While the annual festival, which has made its name on the strength of two additional words--Live Remix--had an eighth edition in 2012 that, on paper, should have been nothing short of spectacular, it was ultimately ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Losen Records: New Norwegian Sounds

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 3, 2013

Mention the phrase “the Norwegian sound" and many listeners will get an image in their head. An image of a natural, deep echoing sound influenced by the mountains and hills of the Norwegian landscape. Such an image is, of course, a cliché, but to some critics it has stuck and distorted the rich fertility of the ...

Article: Album Review

Terje Rypdal: Melodic Warrior

Read "Melodic Warrior" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
August 30, 2013

Some albums are worth the wait, even if that wait is a full decade. The lion's share of guitarist Terje Rypdal's Melodic Warrior is devoted to the nine-movement title suite, a 2003 recording with the Bruckner Orchester Linz and, most importantly, the Hilliard Ensemble, the vocal ensemble that leapt to greater fame with Officium (ECM, 1993), ...

Article: Live Review

Molde International Jazz Festival 2013

by John Kelman
July 29, 2013

Molde International Jazz Festival Molde, Norway July 15-20, 2013It may have been his last year as festival director, but Jan Ole Otnæs sure went out on a high, not just because his programming was as impeccable as ever, but because he made it a year with a very specific philosophy. ...