Space – London Concert

Space is the Swedish, Stockholm-based free-improv piano trio of pianist Lisa Ullén (known from her collaborations with double bass player Nina de Heney and cellist Okkyung Lee), double bass player Elsa Bergman, and drummer...

Fuchs/Smith/Bryerton – Now This Was Clear: Three October Meetings, Live in Berlin & Chicago

The double album Now This Was Clear documents two recordings from 2002 of the singular but short-lived free improvising trio of late visionary German reed player Wolfgang Fuchs (the founder of King Übü Örchestrü,...

Sulida & Axel Dörner – Etiwe

Sulida is a Norwegian free jazz trio featuring idiosyncratic, experienced improvisers - tenor sax player and flutist Marthe Lea (who also sings, plays piano and percussion and did the cover artwork, and of Paal...

Wadada Leo Smith – Constellations And Hemispheres

American master trumpeter, composer, and improviser Wadada Leo Smith’s Constellations and Hemispheres was recorded between 2017 and 2022 with four different ensembles (just like Smith’s previous album, Fire Illuminations, released on Smith’s label, Kabell,...

Mockūnas/Blaser/Ducret – Twisted Summer

Three European experimental, idiosyncratic improvisers form a trio inspired by the chamber, introspective sound of the late-fifties, seminal trio of American visionary reed player Jimmy Giuffre, with guitarist Jim Hall and trombonist Bob Brookmeyer....

Bruno Chevillon – États des lieux

Bruno Chevillon is a French classically trained double bass player whose approach to his instrument is fundamentally sculptural and conceptual. He treats the double bass as a source of sound materials, where structure and...

Flavio Zanuttini – Requiem for Democracy

Italian, Udine-based trumpeter Flavio Zanuttini likes to experiment and search in whatever musical sphere he gets involved in- solo acoustic, solo electroacoustic, trio, free improvised, or a trio with electronics on the suite Requiem...

Il libro di Pierpaolo Martino: Scritti dal basso

Pierpaolo Martino è un musicista, contrabbassista e bassista, attivo da molti anni nel jazz e nelle musiche in cui l'improvvisazione svolge un ruolo primario, inoltre è Professore Associato di Letteratura Inglese presso l'Università degli...

Irene Aebi

Irene Aebi, violoncellista, violinista e cantante svizzera nota per il suo lungo sodalizio artistico e sentimentale con il sassofonista americano Steve Lacy è deceduta a Gand l'11 agosto scorso a 87 anni. Aebi è...

Ivo Perelman: Tre direzioni

Nella triade di nuovi CD di Ivo Perelman, che qui di seguito recensisco, si possono trovare le principali tre direzioni musicali del grande sassofonista brasiliano. Vediamole insieme. 1) Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Bobby...

Notizie

Il programma della 70ª Biennale di Venezia

Diamo comunicazione del programma degli eventi della prossima, settantesima edizione della Biennale di Venezia, con la prefazione sul tema A Child Of Sound, fatta...