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Walter Prati

Schiaffini, Prati, Gemmo, Armaroli: Luc Ferrari Exercises d'improvisation

By NERI POLLASTRI

Luc Ferrari, compositore contemporaneo allievo di Messiaen e Honegger, scomparso nel 2005 all'età di settantasei anni, è stato tra gli sperimentatori di forme diverse di composizione, utilizzando tra l'altro nastri magnetici e interazione con l'improvvisazione. Entrambe queste forme convergono nei suoi “esercizi d'improvvisazione," sette registrazioni su nastro di suoni elettronici pensate come stimolo e base per ...

Elliott Sharp: Syzygy

By DON PHIPPS

Immaculately recorded by Italian label Dodicilune, Elliott Sharp's Syzygy continues Sharp's explorations of spontaneous and improvisatory sound. He and his collaborators offer up studio versions of Syzygy on the first disc and live versions of the material on disc two. As much modern classical as abstract jazz, it is the musical textures and abstractions that give ...

Evan Parker

By JOHN EYLES

In his biography of Robert Wyatt, Different Every Time (Serpent's Tail, 2015), author Marcus O'Dair describes Evan Parker as “perhaps the finest British free-jazz saxophonist of his generation." The only words in that phrase that seasoned Parker followers might take issue with are “perhaps," “British" and “free-jazz," preferring just to describe him as the finest improvising ...