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Manu Katché: The Colors I See
by Adriana Carcu
Manu Katché is one of those few names familiar to a large audience of quite different musical orientations. Along his career he has played with some of the most representative pop, rock, country, jazz--and even classical--musicians. Katché's immense adaptability and emulative spirit, together with the harmonic roundness of tone on his instrument, make him to an ...
Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio Releases "Distilled" on Sunny Sky Records
Her last album Long Pair Bond received 5 stars from the Austrian jazz magazine Concerto, among other stellar reviews from around the world. Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs set high expectations for the follow-up trio recording, Distilled, which was just released on Sunny Sky Records. There have already been some initial reviews. Blogger Stephan Moore from Jazz ...
Bray Jazz Festival 2013
by Ian Patterson
Bray Jazz FestivalBray, County WicklowIrelandMay 3-5, 2013 For many years, the picturesque town of Bray's main claim to fame has been that it's the oldest inhabited seaside town in Ireland. That is, it was the main claim to fame until Bray local lass Katie Taylor won boxing gold at the 2012 ...
Mats Eilertsen: SkyDive
by AAJ Italy Staff
SkyDive è il sesto album da leader per il contrabbassista norvegese Mats Eilertsen ed è un'ottima dimostrazione di come si possa ottenere musica di grande efficacia e modernità attraverso un lavoro intenso sul timbro strumentale e sugli equilibri all'interno di un gruppo. Eilertsen si è fatto conoscere con una registrazione per la ECM -The Source realizzato ...
Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Waltz for Lilli
by John Kelman
Norway's place on the international jazz map has been assured for decades: first with saxophonist Jan Garbarek, guitarist Terje Rypdal and bassist Arild Andersen; then, a second wave including trumpeters Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvær, and pianists Bugge Wesseltoft and Christian Wallumrød; and, more recently, in another wave featuring In the Country and Splashgirl. Still, ...
John Kelman's Best Live Shows of 2012
by John Kelman
Another tremendous year of travel, to find music in whatever nook and cranny it's hiding. From South Africa to Sweden, from Norway to the Netherlands, and from Germany to home base in Ottawa, Canada, it seemed as though there was an endless supply of great music to see--and even more that sadly had to be skipped. ...
Jazzfest Berlin 2012: Berlin, Germany, November 1-4, 2012
by Henning Bolte
Jazzfest Berlin 2012Berlin, GermanyNovember 1-4, 2012In 1964, famous pioneering jazz aficionado and impresario Joachim E. Behrendt founded the legendary Berlin Jazztage. The event, nowadays named Jazzfest Berlin, with its tumultuous history and multitude of faces, has since worked with a variety of different artistic directors. This year was the beginning of a new ...
Enjoy Jazz 2012, Days 1-14, October 2-15, 2012
by Adriana Carcu
Enjoy Jazz 2012Heidelberg / Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 2-November 10, 2012Expressed in numbers, the 14th edition of Enjoy Jazz, advertized as a “Festival for Jazz and Other Things," brings up an impressive count: 59 concerts performed in 32 locations, with 265 musicians from 24 countries. Put into words the numbers reveal a most ...
Manu Katche: Manu Katche
by John Kelman
Since joining ECM for Neighbourhood (2005), Manu Katché has carved out a very specific niche for himself at a label whose purview continues to broaden--with this French-Ivorian drummer, perhaps surprisingly so. Contemporary? Yes, Katché has fashioned a nearly four-decade career as a superb groove-meister, whether in the rock world with artists Sting or Peter Gabriel, or ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: Montreal, Canada, June 28-July 7, 2012
by Greg Thomas
Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, CanadaJune 28-July 7, 2012From the time of the airplane's descent to the airport in Montréal, I knew something was different and perhaps special about this place. Instead of a square or rectangular grid style of suburban housing plots, from my window I saw circular formations of housing, ...
