Esce oggi "Street Visions" del progetto Jazz Reason, un bel viaggio che va dal Jazz contemporaneo alla House Music notturna. "Jazz Reason" è un esperimento ottenuto da una sessione dal vivo tra il dj e produttore Guido Nemola, il sassofonista Emanuele Coluccia, il pianista Mauro Tre e il chitarrista Dario Comuzzi. L'improvvisazione, i ritmi jazz e i groove elettronici vi porteranno in un viaggio da sogno su sfere superiori.
King Crimson is the most protean group of all contemporary music.
For fifty years, Robert Fripp’s mind has been churning out amazing ideas, inventing new sounds, revolutionizing stage ensembles and gathering drummers. His compositions climb wild lyrical peaks to then dive into powerful bouts of metallic dissonances, ebbing into a magmatic sound wave which is in continuous evolution. It was only natural that a band, sooner or later, would rearrange these songs into jazz. It had to be a curious, courageous and somewhat reckless band. Skilled in experimenting with sounds and styles.
The trio Ferra, Sferra, Dalla Porta, with special guest Gianluca Petrella, has all these qualities (and many more) and has drilled into Fripp’s acclaimed and intricate works, delving into the soul of each one and embarking on unexplored soundscapes. They have gone off the beaten track, in the footsteps of a pioneer, becoming fore¬runners themselves in bringing Fripp’s music elsewhere.
“Abandon all certainty, ye who enter here”
01 Frame by frame (Fripp/Belew/Bruford/Levin)
02 I talk to the wind (McDonald/Sinfield)
03 Aliseo (Ferra)
04 Zephyr (Dalla Porta)
05 In the court of the Crimson King (McDonald/Sinfield)
Big Bad Wolf is a London based band featuring washy guitars, ambient vocals, brassy hooks and deep grooves… ...this distinctive sound arises largely from the band's consistently egalitarian process of group composition, where all 4 members are present from conception to completion of each song. Starting each writing session by recording an open-ended group improvisation, they then listen back, pick out the best ideas and then develop them into intricate and concise pieces of music. Big Bad Wolf have developed a unique way to bridge the gap between improvised music and contemporary pop/rock styles. All four band members have a strong grounding in jazz from their studies on the prestigious jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music and at Leeds College of Music. From this background, the band strives to constantly push the boundaries and blur the edges of the genre through a wealth of influences, from Bjork to Derek Bailey, brought to the table by each member to the group. From the band’s first experimentations in late 2014 there has always been a primary focus on the instrumental blend within the slightly unconventional line up (trombone, guitar, bass VI and drums) and how to work that into forging an individual, contemporary sound whilst still honouring the improvisational element of the jazz tradition. Big Bad Wolf are proud recipients of a Help Musicians UK Development Grant and are also winners of the 2015 Zealous X Music Category "I really like the kind of combination of lazy trombone and darting guitar riffs"- Jez Nelson, BBC Radio 3 (Jazz On 3)
July 2 - Blazing Telecaster Madness with guitarists Anthony Pirog & Dave Chappell, John Previtti (b) & Barry Hart (d) - Bertha's - 734 South Broadway - Baltimore, MD - 3:00 til 6:00
June 3 - Birdsongs of the Mezoic will rise from Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction to unleash a rollicking set of their primordial punk jazz classical car-wreck ouevre - ONCE Lounge & Ballroom - 156 Highland Ave - Somerville MA - 10 PM harpist Audrey Harrer / 10:45 Birdsongs - $10.00
The Bespoke Consort will perform an invigorating concert of crossover classical chamber music sans boundaries featuring Thomasine Berg on flute, Vessela Stoyanova on vibraphone, Valerie Thompson on cello, and Erik Lindgren on piano
May 6 - Johnson Strings - 1039 Chestnut Street - Newton Upper Falls, MA - 7:30-9:30 followed by reception $10
May 7 - First Unitarian Universalist Church - 25 South Main Street - Middleboro, MA - 10:30-12:00 free Note: musical selections will be performed during the service
July 2 - Blazing Telecaster Madness with guitarists Joel Harrison & Dave Chappell, John Previtti (b) & Barry Hart (d) - Bertha's - 734 South Broadway - Baltimore, MD - 3:00 til 6:00
More than two dozen "Jazz Heroes" -- people exerting unusual positive musical influence on their communities, whether they're musicians or not – are to be celebrated in 20 U.S. locales throughout April, Jazz Appreciation Month, as announced by the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit organization of media professionals in collaboration with diverse jazz grassroots groups, institutions and supporters.
The complete list of Jazz Heroes, with their portraits, detailed bios and Awards celebration information, is at the JJA Jazz Heroes webpage.
From Atlanta to Washington State, Minnesota's Twin Cities to New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area to Brooklyn, individuals identified locally as "activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz" and further certified by a JJA process launched in 2001 will receive engraved statuettes at public presentations, often accompanied by official proclamations from municipal and/or state officials.
This year's roster includes Jazz Heroes of immigrant backgrounds and descent – San Diego trumpeter-band director-mentor Gilbert Castellanos, for instance, and Asian Improv aRts co-founders Jon Jang and Francis Wong – as well as women who are changing the sound of jazz (Chicago's improvising cellist Tomeka Reid), documenting it (photographer/historian Andrea Canter of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Judith Korey of the Felix Grant Jazz Archives) and sustaining its humanitarian legacy (Fran Morris Rosman of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation). Tallahassee hero Adam Gaffney teaches jazz appreciation from his special perspective as a blind listener. There are veteran presenters such as Jack Kleinsinger (producing Highlights in Jazz in Manhattan for 45 years), Marty Ashby (30-year executive producer of MCG Jazz, Pittsburgh), Viola Plummer (22 years running Sistas' Place in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood), Sam Yi (formerly of Churchill Downs, Atlanta) and Jason Patterson of New Orleans' Snug Harbor. Also entrepreneurial musicians including pianists Wayne Horvitz (Seattle) and Darrell Grant (Portland, OR), and broadcasters and journalists (Lew Shaw, W. Kim Heron, J. Michael Harrison and Richard Henderson). All work to advance jazz beyond requirements or duties of their employment.
Organizations collaborating on Jazz Hero events this year include the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), the Mason Tavern (Atlanta), Jazz in the Neighborhood (San Francisco), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), B Sharps Jazz Café (Tallahassee), Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar (St. Paul), Black Dog Coffee and WIne Bar (St. Paul), Portland PDX Jazz Festival, the Arizona Classic Jazz Society, the International Jazz Day AZ Foundation and the Calvin Jones Big Band Festival at University of District of Columbia.
Sponsors of the Jazz Heroes initiative and the subsequent 21st annual JJA Jazz Awards include the Jazz Foundation of America, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, Century Media Partners, Sunnyside Records, Scott Thompson Public Relations, High Note/Savant Records, Motéma Music, Braithwaite & Katz Communications,Thirsty Ear Records, Jazz Promo Services and the Tucson Jazz Festival.
Baritonsaxophonist David Milzow und Bassist Jean- Louis Rassinfosse veröffentlichen ihr Duoalbum "Flowers for Harry", einen Tribute für Harry Carney. Das Duoalbum "Flowers for Harry" mit Bariton- und Basssaxophonist David Milzow und dem Brüsseler "elder statesmen" - Jazzbassisten Jean- Louis Rassinfosse ist eine Hommage, etwas persönliches: eine musikalische Verbeugung vor einem der größten Solisten des Duke Ellington - Orchesters, an dessen langjährigen musikalischen Weggefährten, den "Daddy" des Baritonsaxophons, Harry Carney. Bereits im Jahr 2009, nach einem gemeinsamen Jazzkonzert mit dem US- Pianisten Richie Beirach, gingen die beiden Protagonisten Milzow und Rassinfosse in Hannover ins Aufnahmestudio, um die Idee eines Albums zum 100. Geburtstag von Harry Carney zu verwirklichen. Neben dem Tributegedanken war es die Idee, die ungewöhnliche Duokombination der beiden "Tieftöner" Baritonsaxophon und Kontrabass musikalisch kommunikativ und luftig zu gestalten und dennoch den orchestralen Gestus der ausgewählten Stücke zu erhalten: Denn das Repertoire hierzu ist quasi "hausgemacht" und stammt aus dem Ellington- Strayhornfundus. Neben altgedienten Schlachtrössern wie "Sophisticated lady" gibt es aber auch einige selten gehörte Feature- Nummern Harry Carneys zu hören, so z. B. "Frustration", "Lotus Blossum", bzw. "außer der Reihe" als besonderes Bonbon "Come Sunday", vorgetragen auf dem seltenen Basssaxophon.
In der transparenten Produktion ergibt sich ein dynamisches, vielschichtiges und spannendes Klangbild, wobei Milzow und Rassinfosse ein weiteres Kunststück gelingt: David Milzow öffnet den mächtigen Harry Carney- Sound für eine spontan- wendige, zeitgenössische Spielweise und Jean- Louis Rassinfosse erspielt sich mit seinem melodischen Spiel Freiräume, die weit über die traditionelle harmonische Basisrolle des Kontrabass hinausgehen und ihn zum gleichwertigen Gesprächspartner machen. So ist ein spannendes Album entstanden, das dem Jazzliebhaber großes Vergnügen beim Anhören bereiten dürfte. Erhältlich ist es online bei den gängigen Anbietern wie iTunes oder Amazon.
