On Damon Smith’s latest works
The reviews of 3 albums of prolific, American double bass player Damon Smith, connecting the Afro-American free jazz legacy to free improvisation:
1) K. Curtis Lyle / George R. Sams / Ra Kalam Bob Moses...
Marina Džukljev in trio and solo piano
Serbian, Novi-Sad-based pianist-organist-educator Marina Džukljev is a classically-trained musician who performed free improvised, classical and contemporary music. She has collaborated with like-minded, innovative European improvisers, and sound and multimedia artists such as dieb13, Michael...
V. Guyvoronsky with N. Ahsan & D. Kucherov: Around Silence
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky is considered as the best and most representative jazz trumpeter in Russia: Vyacheslav already has a large group of works done with an eclecticism of substance: no doubt, the best feature of...
Kabas – Sun Dog
Kabas is the Belgian experimental, genre-defying collective quartet that sounds as if reinventing its sonic palette with each new album, due to its ever-expanded instrumentation and a vision that can bend any idea and...
Leonardi/Pastor/Blumer/Geisser: Conversations about Thomas Chapin
Stefano Leonardi, an Italian young flutist, is a spokesman for the Chapin's artistic rediscovery. He organized a quartet of Italian and Swiss musicians (Fridolin Blumer on bass, Heinz Geisser on drums and Stefano Pastor...
Uwe Oberg: Twice, at least
"Twice, At least" is a further test of Uwe Oberg's intelligent formula, who confirms the stylistic line of the German musician, a whirlwind of 70 years of jazz pianism: starting from Monk, he forges...
Sylvaine Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent – Rare Birds
French flutist-vocalist-composer Sylvaine Hélary is a rare bird. She has played in Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Jazz under the artistic director Frédéric Maurin. She will become the director of...
John Wolf Brennan/Tony Majdalani/Marco Jencarelli: Pilgrims
After all, John Wolf Brennan has accustomed us to meetings between East and West: those who remember his masterpieces recorded long ago have always perceived his proximity to some aspects of non-Western thought, so...
Methods for exploring the sonic matter: in conversation with Lei Liang
The path of a composer is often guided by the desire to make new discoveries and to try to contribute to complex and seemingly borderless topics. On this point, an example comes from the...
Rank Ensemble: Papilio Noblei
Rank Ensemble is a highly respected quartet, with an academic training, orbiting in the Finnish scene of free improvisation; the four musicians carry out an unusual line of expression between contemporary music and free...
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I Leoni della Biennale Musica 2025 a Venezia
Pubblichiamo il comunicato stampa appena ricevuto dall'ufficio stampa della Biennale Musica di Venezia in merito all'assegnazione dei Leoni d'oro e d'argento dell'edizione 2025.
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