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Take Five With Barry Cleveland
by AAJ Staff
Meet Barry Cleveland: Barry Cleveland's guitar playing is rooted in progressive and psychedelic rock, branching into ambient, experimental, funk, and various ethnic styles--enhanced by cutting-edge electronics and unorthodox playing techniques. He's also a deft engineer and producer with an iconoclastic approach to recording and mixing. Cleveland released his first commercial album--Mythos--on Larry Fast's ...
Paolo Vinaccia: Very Much Alive
by AAJ Italy Staff
Paolo Vinaccia è un batterista e compositore italiano che dal 1979 ha scelto la Norvegia come patria di adozione. Qui si è costruito una reputazione che lo ha portato a incidere con i migliori musicisti della scena scandinava, a partecipare a oltre cento incisioni, ad essere uno dei batteristi più richiesti, grazie alla grande duttilità che ...
Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Days 3-4, November 6-7, 2010
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Days 3-4 Tampere Jazz HappeningTampere, FinlandNovember 4-7, 2010 While most festivals aim to keep the energy, commitment and creativity levels high, few succeed at starting with a high bar and raising it continuously throughout the course of the event. While the first two days of ...
Trygve Seim / Andreas Utnem: Purcor: Songs for Saxophone and Piano
by John Kelman
Since emerging on the label with his own large ensemble and as part of the collaborative, more improv-heavy group The Source, saxophonist Trygve Seim has been a leading voice in the second wave of Norwegian artists who look to legacy ECM musicians like Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen and Terje Rypdal as touchstones, but possess unmistakable voices ...
Jazztopad Festival 2010: A Month of Outstanding Jazz Concerts
Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, opens its doors this Friday, November 5th and will present a series of outstanding jazz concerts each weekend throughout the month. Now in its seventh year, Jazztopad has quickly established a name for itself as one of the leading jazz festivals in Poland. Its reputation as a progressive, creative festival, however, ...
Michael Formanek: The Rub And Spare Change
by John Kelman
With a discography that's growing with each passing year--expanding into territories new to both the label and music in general--it's difficult to understand the need for some to apply a reductionist stance to the music of ECM, whitewashing it with descriptions like “melancholy," or “Nordic cool." One listen to bassist Michael Formanek's ECM debut, The Rub ...
Very Much Alive
by John Kelman
[NOTE]: This review is being republished as a celebration of just one aspect of the life of drummer Paolo Vinaccia, who passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on July 5, 2019. Best-known in Norway, where he emigrated from Italy in 1979, enjoying a busy career with artists including Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal, Mike Mainieri, ...
Punkt Festival 2010
by John Kelman
The trials and tribulations of international travel--flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage--can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...
Terje Rypdal: Crime Scene
by Ian Patterson
Such is the strength of the ECM aesthetic--visually as well as musically--that it's one of very few record labels in the history of jazz that is referred to describe a person's musical tastes. The northern European jazz sound which Manfred Eicher has made synonymous with his fabled label--cool, spacious, pastoral--colors the majority of ECM releases, so ...
JazzFest Berlin 2010 Programme Available & Tickets On Sale
JazzFest Berlin 2010—Goes Europe! This year's edition of the Berlin Jazz Festival (JazzFest Berlin 2010) will take place from November 3 to 7. Artistic director Nils Landgren and the Berliner Festspiele treat you to a resounding jazz experience with 23 events, more than 30 jazz ensembles and roughly 250 musicians. The recent festival focusses on the ...
