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Theo Bleckmann & Kneebody: Twelve Songs by Charles Ives
by AAJ Italy Staff
La solita splendida grafica cartonata delle edizioni Winter & Winter ci introduce all'ascolto di un CD che si preannuncia assai stimolante. Una band, Kneebody, che con la sua miscela di jazz, rock, avant, pop tra acustico ed elettrico sta dando un contributo importante allo sviluppo della musica improvvisata. Un vocalist, Theo Bleckmann, irriverente sperimentatore, ideatore di ...
Theo Bleckmann
by AAJ Italy Staff
01. Barney McAll Sylent Running - Empathy Chip (2009). Bellissime, moderne composizioni in bilico tra pop etereo e minimal jazz con la straordinaria voce di Gian Slater. Gian, originaria di Melbourne, è unica con la sua voce leggera e precisa, tanto eterea quanto ricca di energia. Musica e testi sono assolutamente freschi e commoventi. Un album ...
Schumann's Favored Bar Songs
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Roast Beef And Fried Potatoes; As Time Goes By I've Got The World On A
String; In A Sentimental Mood; Send In The Clowns; Am I Blue; Moulin
Rouge; Estrellita; A Child Is Born; Someone To Watch Over Me; Love Me Or
Leave Me; Good Morning Heartache; Last Night When We Were Young; So In
Love; You Better Go Now; 16. God Bless The Child; Just A Gigolo.
Theo Bleckmann and Fumio Yasuda: Schumann's Favored Bar Songs
by C. Michael Bailey
Schumann's Bar am Hofgarten is located at Odeonsplatz 6+7 80539 Munich, Germany. It derives its name from founder and bartender, Charles Schumann, who originally ran a similar bar in New York City. It is a world famous watering hole for the rich and and famous, something Schumann has cultivated among his patrons. Winter and Winter, who ...
Genre Bending Jazz Vocalist & Composer Theo Bleckmann Earns 2010 Grammy Nomination for Winter & Winter Release "Twelve Songs by Charles Ives"
Bleckmann & Kneebody make the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominees List receiving Best Classical Crossover Album Nomination New York, NY -- Winter & Winter recording artist Theo Bleckmann and his critically acclaimed album, Twelve Songs By Charles Ives has earned a Grammy Nomination in the Best Classical Crossover Album category (Awarded to the Artist(s) and/or to ...
Mikkel Ploug / Sissel Vera Pettersen / Joachim Badenhorst: Equilibrium
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Equilibrium is three-way partnership between Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, Belgian saxophonist and clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and Norwegian vocalist and saxophonist Sissel Vera Pettersen. The trio's charming and ruminative mixture borrows elements of contemporary chamber music, jazz and various indigenous vocal traditions ranging from Inuit throat singing to West African griots and incorporates a variety of extended ...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: Eternal Interlude
by Troy Collins
In addition to leading the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet and performing numerous sideman duties, composer and percussionist John Hollenbeck is renowned for his inimitable multi-layered writing. Hollenbeck studied under composer Bob Brookmeyer before charting a unique path in creative improvised music, incorporating elements of minimalism, post-rock and indigenous folk music into his eclectic compositions. As leader of ...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: Eternal Interlude
by Mark F. Turner
Like fragments of crystal, John Hollenbeck's large ensemble casts angular lines, unusual shapes and refracts music (rather than light) differently than typical jazz big bands. The prolific drummer/composer's progressive slant has been at the core of The Claudia Quintet's For (Cuneiform, 2007) and Semi-Formal (Cuneiform, 2006); music marked by enigmatic ideas of swing, modern chamber music ...
The Charles Ives Songs Series 2: Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody / Naxos, Vol. 1
by C. Michael Bailey
Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve Songs by Charles Ives. These two releases provide stark contrast between traditional and progressive performances of not only Ives, but of “art songs" in general. ...
Refuge Trio: Refuge Trio
by Glenn Astarita
The musical sound and scope of Refuge Trio resembles a sanctuary of genre-morphing frameworks, neatly compacted into a conspicuous group-focused mindset. Appropriately, the trio's name was inspired by Joni Mitchell's song “Refuge of The Roads," from the legendary singer/songwriter's Hejira (Elektra/Asylum, 1976), to coincide with a performance at the 2002 Wall-to-Wall Joni Mitchell concert at Symphony ...
