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Article: Album Review

Andrés Vial: Sphereology Volume One

Read "Sphereology Volume One" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Pianist Andres Vial has been working on this Sphereology project since 2005, when he organized a Thelonious Monk music festival in his Montreal hometown. “My band played four nights of Monk's music there," he recalls. “I transcribed about fifty of his tunes for those gigs, and the festival ran for four years." “Even though ...

Article: Live Review

Dolomiti Ski Jazz - XXII Edizione

Read "Dolomiti Ski Jazz - XXII Edizione" reviewed by Paolo Peviani

by Paolo Peviani

Dolomiti Ski Jazz 9-17.3.2019 Val di Fiemme Montagne di rara bellezza, piste innevate, pause gastronomiche nei rifugi, tanta buona musica. Da ben ventidue anni, il Dolomiti Ski Jazz offre all'appassionato di jazz e di montagna un mix impareggiabile. Nel corso del tempo, il festival ci ha abituato a ...

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Article: Album Review

DKV & Joe McPhee: The Fire Each Time

Read "The Fire Each Time" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Do you participate in the 21st century phenomena called 'binge-watching'? With the advent of Netflix and downloadable television, consumers can view an entire television series in one sitting. Be it eight episodes of Russian Doll or sixty hours of The Wire, it's all available, and the possibilities to feast are tempting. Where a filmmaker might have ...

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2019

Read "Brilliant Corners 2019" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab Belfast, N. Ireland March 2-9, 2019 For many years the words brilliant, jazz and Belfast rarely appeared in the same sentence. That all changed in 2013 when music promoters Moving On Music launched Brilliant Corners, subtitled A Festival of Jazz in Belfast. Since then, ...

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Article: Album Review

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Winter Horizons

Read "Winter Horizons" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Winter Horizons is the last of Cincinnati-based baritone saxophonist Larry Dickson's four-part salute to the seasons which began in 2015 with Second Springtime and includes Summergold Promises and Donora Autumn. As before, Dickson leads a quartet whose charter members are bassist Michael Sharfe and drummer Jim Leslie. Alto saxophonist Rick Van Matre, Dickson's band mate in ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Put It Where You Want It (But Find It Where You Put It)

Read "Put It Where You Want It (But Find It Where You Put It)" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Hip Spanic All-Stars Old-School Revolution Self-Produced 2018 If you think that Old School Revolution sounds both familiar and new, you're right. In the late 2000s, bassist and singer Happy Sanchez, saxophonist Norbert Stachel (Tower of Power), percussionist Karl Perazzo (a longstanding member of Santana), ...

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Article: Live Review

Metastasio Jazz 2019

Read "Metastasio Jazz 2019" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Metastasio Jazz 2019 Varie sedi Prato 5-25.2.2018 Preceduto da un concerto del quartetto di Roberto Ottaviano in collaborazione con il Pinocchio di Firenze e da uno della New Talents Jazz Orchestra diretta da Mario Corvini, poi inaugurato ufficialmente da uno spettacolo teatral-musicale--Tempo di Chet, racconto della vita di Chet Baker ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Arthur Satyan: A life Steeped in Music

Read "Arthur Satyan:  A life Steeped in Music" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Pianist, composer and educator Arthur Satyan came to Lebanon from his native Armenia in 1996 with a 3-month contract for the reopening of the area's premier performance space Casino Du Liban. Accompanying Satyan were American musicians drummer Steve Phillips, bassist Jack Gregg and guitarist Eric Schultz. Satyan ended up accepting a position at the Lebanese National ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

3x3: Piano Trios, vol. IV

Read "3x3: Piano Trios, vol. IV" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

Yonathan Avishai Joys and Solitudes ECM Records 2019 Though Yonathan Avishai isn't exactly in solitude on his debut as leader, half the recording is well suited to quiet times away from the world, or perhaps being enjoyed with minimal company—the trio at hand is comfortable with silence as any ECM ensemble ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Matthew Shipp Announces Presidential Campaign

Read "Matthew Shipp Announces Presidential Campaign" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

I like to think about Matthew Shipp's music in the same light as that of Eric Dolphy and Charlie Parker. If both artists, Bird and Dolphy, had the level of support from critics and listeners that they currently command while they were still alive, the pair would have been wealthy. Okay, that plus honest record companies ...


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