Jon Lipscombe: Conscious Without Function
Derek Bailey si lagnava del fatto che disporre di un alto livello di capacità tecniche allo strumento non significasse automaticamente per un improvvisatore avere la padronanza di esso e il motivo stava nella diversa...
Il Brandon Seabrook Trio
Fino a che punto possono coagularsi le differenti prospettive dei musicisti? Solitamente in una formazione di musicisti di almeno tre elementi c'è un leader che realizza un progetto personale e cerca partners in grado...
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...
Stephen Davis Unit – The Gleaming World
British, Belfast-based drummer-percussionist-composer Stephen Davis plays in Anthony Braxton’s The New Standard quartet. He has worked with Evan Parker, Alexander Hawkins (who also plays in Braxton’s New Standard quartet, and employs Davis as the...
Un souffle vert, farfalle impegnate e un tutto musicale
Chiunque faccia l'esperienza di visitare un giardino francese serberà certamente un ricordo particolare di esso: la percezione è quella di entrare in un'altra dimensione, non solo relativa al luogo ma anche a beneficio dell'olfatto...
Authenticity, scenarios and movement: a dialogue with Harri Sjöström
Keepers of so-called "good taste" should always improve their interpretations when evaluating a painting and should abandon their prejudices. Let us take, for example, Nude Descending a Staircase no.2, the great painting by Marcel...
Gato Barbieri (1932-2016)
Although probably best known for his soundtrack to the 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris, tenor saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who died on April 2, was an innovator in fusing elements of...
Joëlle Léandre / Lotte Anker / Kresten Osgood Trio – Worlds
During the 2023 edition of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Danish drummer Kresten Osgood curated the I/O series and invited a few of the first generation of female free improviers, including British vocal artist Maggie...
Ultima Armonia: Someone Killed the Swan; Laments On South-eastern Europe
"Someone killed the swan; Laments on South-eastern Europe" is addressed to an audience that goes beyond the borders of Serbia. But it's not important just for the fact that it was recorded in a...
Jon Irabagon: Here be dragons
Il sassofonista filippino naturalizzato a New York, Jon Irabagon è venuto alla ribalta della cronaca grazie ad un concorso del 2008 dedicato a Monk, in cui l'artista, giudicato da una commissione stellare (Wayne Shorter,...