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Albert "Tootie" Heath, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street: Philadelphia Beat
by Stefano Merighi
Ottant'anni di fragranza sono quelli di Albert “Tootie" Heath, a giudicare dalla qualità del gioco imbastito in trio con il piano di Ethan Iverson ed il contrabbasso di Ben Street, un gioco giunto alla sua terza e più riuscita mano, votato alle regole non scritte della scuola jazzistica di Philadelphia. Un magistero, quello di Heath, plasmato ...
James Brandon Lewis e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. James Brandon Lewis: Le emozioni e il suono la fanno da padrone! Le melodie, sia predeterminate che spontanee. Musica angolare, onesta, vulnerabile, rischiosa, urgente, con groove, funky e libera, che viene dal cuore. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano ...
Jazz for Kids: Copenhagen Jazz Festival
by Eyal Hareuveni
Jazz for Kids: Folkegaven (Kresten Osgood & Lars Greve) and Sun Ra for KidsCopenhagen Jazz Festival Søndermarken Park, Frederiksberg July 10, 2015 The Copenhagen Jazz Festival is a massive event, lasting 10 days, offering 1,200 concerts that envelope all corners of the Danish capital and draws an audience of about 250,000 ...
Hu Vibrational: The Epic Botanical Beat Suite
by John Ephland
Uniquely atmospheric, this music evokes both the mysterious jungle as well as what it might be like to listen in space, outer space. Hu Vibrational Presents The Epic Botanical Beat Suite points to both the inner as well as outer journey. All of it exquisitely tethered by the Beat, or beats, beats that float in and ...
Take Five with Althea Rene
by AAJ Staff
Meet Althea Rene: She was born December 25th in Detroit, Michigan and began her musical journey at the tender age four. She studied classical music while attending Howard University in Washington D.C. and later gained further musical inspiration from the accomplishments of Yusef Lateef, Ian Anderson, and her father, one of Motown's original Funk Brothers, ...
Dave Burrell: Pianist Navigating the Windward Passages
by Victor L. Schermer
Dave Burrell is a master pianist and composer who encountered the avant-garde in the 1960s and has been following his own independent path ever since. He combines classical and jazz elements that are both “inside" and “outside" the mainstream. The title of a poem by J.V. Cunningham, “The Metaphysical Amorist" characterizes much of his playing, which ...
Jakob Bro: Gefion
by Henning Bolte
Gefion, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's ECM-debut as leader, is a fascinating reinvention of melodicism. His music leads listeners deep into the rich resonances emerging from brilliantly simple melodic motifs imbued with seductive atmospheres. Like Möbius strips his music's lines wind seemingly endlessly. Its evocative melodic nuclei very often reach the lower limits of dynamics, thereby opening ...
Les McCann "Invitation To Openness" Reissued on Omnivore Recordings
Through the chart-topping 1969 song “Compared To What, “ Les McCann became known to thousands of people as an inspirational “soul-jazz" pianist and vocalist. Since its first release in 1972, Les McCann's Invitation To Openness album (Atlantic Records) has remained a landmark statement in free-form improvisation mixed with soulful grooves, featuring a 26-minute continuous track with ...
The Sophisticated World of Schema Records
by Jakob Baekgaard
Schema records was founded in the beginning of 1997 by Luciano Cantone and Davide Rosa. The label's aesthetic profile is described in the following way: “Although the roots of the label are mainly influenced by jazz and bossa nova, Schema has an appeal for all kinds of music and embraces true experimentation since it's the real ...
Grencsó Open Collective: Flat
by Libero Farnè
István Grencsó, uno dei protagonisti del jazz ungherese degli ultimi trent'anni, fondatore nel 1984 dell'Open Collective, nel novembre 2012 è riuscito ad incidere questo CD grazie all'aiuto del Fondo Nazionale della Cultura Ungherese: un riconoscimento invidiabile per un musicista creativo, che vede così riconosciuta da un'istituzione ufficiale la qualità del suo lavoro. Grencsó è autore ...
