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Mowing Down Bar Lines in Virtuosic Banter
Vijay Iyers trio lights up through improvised, viruslike rhythms. Its not a situation in which the drummers steady swing underpins whatever the pianist is doing; that did happen sometimes at the Jazz Standard on Friday, but it wasnt where the action was. What you look forward to with this bright, aggressive group is when pianist and ...
Intervista a Vijay Iyer
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nato a Rochester 38 anni fa da una famiglia di immigrati indiani, Vijay Iyer è ormai considerato il massimo pianista della sua generazione ed uno dei leader più ispirati e creativi del jazz contemporaneo. Laureato in fisica (la rivista Seed Magazine l'aveva incluso tra menti scientifiche più promettenti dello scorso decennio), musicologo (i suoi saggi sono ...
Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity
by AAJ Italy Staff
"But if Coltrane can do 'My Favorite Things,' I can do 'Somewhere.'" Dietro questa affermazione ironicamente presuntuosa e irriverente, si cela il volto, anzi la mente, di quel geniaccio, termine abusato ma che ci sentiamo di attribuire senza tentennamenti, di Vijay Iyer. Non più di primissimo pelo, va per i trentasei, nato negli Stati Uniti da ...
Take Five With Enoch Smith, Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Enoch Smith Jr.: “I'm a music lover first. My musical ability is just an extension of my love. Jazz, gospel, music for film/television, you name it and I can tell you a story about how I fell in love with it." At the late age of 14 he began playing piano by ...
Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity
by Chris May
There is much that is exciting about pianist Vijay Iyer and almost as much that is irritating. The excitement is in the music and the irritation in the miasma of cerebralization that surrounds it. The most recent instance of the latter comes with the packaging for Historicity. Any album title which requires a fairly lengthy liner ...
Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity
by Troy Collins
The art of the piano trio has enjoyed a healthy renaissance over the past two decades, as a plethora of new stars have ascended the ranks to uphold and advance the tradition. Ethan Iverson, Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran, and Matthew Shipp are just a few of the adventurous younger artists whose notion of the trio is ...
Steve Lehman Live in New Haven and Remembering James P. Johnson
Hard to believe it's been 7 years since Steve Lehman graduated from Wesleyan but not surprising when one sees how busy he's been. The alto saxophonist and and composer has studied with Jackie McLean, Anthony Braxton, Jay Hoggard, Ron Kuivila and George Lewis, has taught in Paris and is currently working on a Ph.D (as well ...
DJ Spooky: The Secret Song
by Mark Corroto
DJ Spooky again proves hip-hop is jazz. Like its grandfather bebop, mixologist/DJ/producer Paul Miller's (aka DJ Spooky) hip-hop is as vibrant and creative as the great revolutionaries in jazz. On The Secret Song he mixes dub, reggae, rock, classical, world, electronic and, well, jazz into a jazz thing. Spooky's reflections on the financial and world meltdown ...
52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Best of Old and New
by Larry Taylor
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey FairgroundsMonterey, CaliforniaSeptember 18-20, 2009 Three Generations of Pianists, a celebration of piano jazz, spotlighting a family of greats from Jason Moran through Dave Brubeck, highlighted the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California. And surprisingly, celebrated folk legend Pete Seeger got ...
Jazz Middelheim 2009
by Martin Longley
Jazz Middelheim 2009Park Den BrandtAntwerpenBelgium The Jazz Middelheim festival is nearing its fortieth anniversary, but it's a weekender that hasn't relinquished a fondness for adventure. Nuzzling up against its stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...
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