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Vijay Iyer: How To Make Music Matter To People
by Leo Sidran
Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer has been described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway." He has been praised by Pitchfork as “one of the best in the world at what he does," by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star," ...
Big Ears Festival 2023
by Mark Sullivan
Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennesse March 30-April 2, 2023 The second full edition after the pandemic found the Big Ears Festival still growing in attendance. Organizers responded by increasing the number of venues, including new ones like the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and ones that had not been used for some time, ...
Arooj Aftab, The Necks, The Vampires, Sara Caswell & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
At a time in which the frantic pace of this world is making record executives explore the idea of one-minute songs to satisfy the swipe-crazed Instagram generation, this playlist if full of music that may feel like a welcome act of counter-culture. Extended form songs, elegant songs, strange songs... Enjoy the ride! Playlist Ben ...
Roscoe Mitchell Trio & Orchestra, Christian McBride New Jawn, and more
by David Brown
This week, one of the great innovators in creative music, saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell will be featured. I've been enjoying Mitchell's reworking of trio improvisations as transcribed for orchestra. We'll also check out Prime the new release from bassist Christen McBride's New Jawn. Plus, new works and recent finds. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from ...
The Artists Of ECM Records
by Maurice Hogue
I've often tried to make the last show of a year a little different. Doing a special on ECM is an idea I've had for a while, and things finally came together to do it for 2022. I've always figured I had a great number of ECM releases in my collection, and when I started culling ...
Ben Freidkin: Trial & Error
by Mike Jurkovic
He may not have the extra-long, arm's length CV just yet, but at 28, Israeli born, Brooklyn-based drummer Ben Freidkin delivers the goods on this briskly charged, live debut recording. Curated from three individual gigs in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with a host of different players, Freidkin nimbly, knowingly and kinetically explores the myriad shapes the ...
Amir ElSaffar River of Sound Orchestra: The Other Shore
by Neri Pollastri
Secondo disco per la Rivers of Sound Orchestra, ensemble creato nel 2015 da Amir ElSaffar con il preciso intento di esplorare in modo originale le culture musicali delle sue origini. ElSaffar è infatti nato negli Stati Uniti da madre statunitense e padre di origini irachene; avvicinatosi precocemente alla musica, ha coltivato quella jazzistica dalla discoteca paterna ...
About Mario Layne Fabrizio
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Mario Layne Fabrizio
website: www.mario.international
MARIO LAYNE FABRIZIO is a visual artist, composer, drummer, percussionist, filmmaker and writer. has performed with notable musicians such as Cecil Mcbee, Claudio Roditi, Nilson Matta, Santi DeBriano, Roni Ben-Hur, Joe Morris, Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, Jason Palmer and Volker Goetze. He premiered Arturo O'Farrill’s piece Little Tiny Walls, theater piece The Black Clown at the American Repertory Theatre and played for Jason Moran’s STAGED exhibition with Cecil McBee and also performed chamber works by Jacob Druckman, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris to name a few. Mario has toured around the world and has been presented with various groups at the Salzburg Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC & Shanghai, China), Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Kunming’s International Drum Festival (China) and The Kennedy Center (DC). London Jazz News describes him accurately as "ferocious but subtle," and Steve Smith of On The Record says that he “plays with assurance, charisma and infectious enthusiasm.” You can find interviews about him in SEATTLEREFINED as the artist of the week and his poetry is published in Ben Mazer’s Art and Letters and was featured in Boston’s Intercollegiate Poetry Festival. Compositions of his have been acknowledged by the NYTIMES, ALLMUSIC, FRANCEMUSIQUE and commissioned by National Sawdust, is a finalist fellow for EBCP. He has won two YoungArts awards, and grants to support my works, a National Sawdust composition commission, and has been supported by MassMOCA, Assets for Artists, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mass Cultural Council, and the Foundation for Contemporary art.
Jazz Musician of the Day: Vijay Iyer
All About Jazz is celebrating Vijay Iyer's birthday today! Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer (pronounced “VID-jay EYE-yer”) was described by Pitchfork as “one of the most interesting & vital young pianists in jazz today,” by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star,” and by Minnesota Public Radio as “an American treasure.” He ...
JazzMI 2022 - VII Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
JazzMI Milano 29.09-9.10.2022 Fine settembre: cadono tutte le restrizioni anti-Covid che ci hanno accompagnato per oltre due anni, ed inizia il festival JazzMI. Non potevamo immaginare modo migliore per festeggiare il ritorno alla vita normale. Milano che si riscopre, sia pure per solo una decina di giorni, città del jazz! Uno status ...
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