New Magical Kingdom
Adam Lane is doing some magic. If you didn’t noticed, here’s a new opportunity you shouldn’t miss. And why? Because the bassist, composer and arranger is taking the big band format in jazz (in this...
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We can’t say that these two musicians are traveling parallel ways. John Butcher’s experiments with feedback, amplification, microtonality and multitracking are pretty far from the studies in rhythm...
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“You never know enough”, says trombonist Roswell Rudd in an interview about his attitude in life and music. He studied with a master – Herbie Nichols; played Monk with another one – Steve Lacy; was...
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Paul Bley has an heir at last, and his name is Russ Lossing. With strong classical training and the natural talent to improvise, this pianist is, like Bley, walking a hard road to achieve his...
View ArticleSharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
For many, it’s quite a surprise to listen to Elliott Sharp performing Thelonious Monk’s tunes. Knowing his fondness for extreme situations in the fields of noise music, experimental rock and hardcore...
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From someone who was absent from the jazz scene for ten years, trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez’s recent hyper-activity put his name in focus, as if he had always been active and simply became more and more...
View ArticleConsidering the Lilies
From the streets of New York to the hotels of the world, what changed in the life of Charles Gayle since his hobo days? Some more money, for sure, but considering the earnings made by jazz musicians...
View ArticleUnreal: Sidewalk Cartoon
Known for his film soundtracks as much as for his straight-ahead jazz recordings, Portuguese pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti has with the new “Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon” his most ambitious work...
View ArticleSpiritualized
Rodrigo Amado, the man who leads the band with a changing lineup – which he named Lisbon Improvisation Players, or LIP if you’re in a hurry – likes double meanings. First of all, the one created with...
View ArticleONJQ Live in Lisbon
As Otomo once said to us, “it’s not what you play that matters, but how you play it”. The “how” of music making is everything for this composer, arranger and improviser and it was naturally that he...
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