Tanja Feichtmair / Fredi Proll / Uli Winter: Trio Now!
"Trio Now!" is based on a strong charge of enthusiasm, with the conscious (but not identical) pride of the "now" of Max Roach's times (We insist!); we are on the border between free, abstract...
Joachim Gies, Ensemble X and Gerd Wameling: Mnemosyne
In "Mnemosyne", you notice the composer's passion for the Greek theater and for the existentialist poets and philosophers: in a performance at Villa Elisabeth in Berlin, Gies plays with the ensemble X (composed by...
Russian jazz musicians: between free and contemporary jazz
Many critics of free improvisation/free jazz insist to give an appropriate value to the sounds that can evoke images or become simulations of an event or an object: this theory is based mainly on...
Anto Pett/Christoph Baumann: Northwind Boogy
The winning feature of this first pearl of 2013 is the resolute character of music that organizes puzzles of sounds in a form extraordinarily personal in which we can affirm to be in front...
Tre raggruppamenti italiani alla Leo Records
Arrigo Cappelletti Quintet: Hot Music
Alla fine degli anni sessanta tra i pianisti che dettavano uno stile vi erano personaggi come Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner o anche l'acerbo Keith Jarrett, ma ve ne era uno...
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...
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...
Another three recordings for Perelman
"The art of duet volume one" is the first of a three-volume series of duets between Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp: it reminds us some essential aspects of the combination of sax-piano in jazz,...
Leo News: Goat’s Notes/Yang Jing with Christy Doran
Goat's Notes - Fuzzy Wonder
Nelle note di presentazione del loro sito internet questo gruppo russo sembra si sia formato sotto la spinta del pianista Grigory Sandomirsky e del contrabbassista Vladimir Kudryavtsev, a cui si...
Evgeny Masloboev/Anastasia Masloboeva:Russian folksongs in the key of New Jazz/Your beautiful face makes me...
Irkutsk is a large city in southern Siberia, the cultural center of excellence for the region and the midpoint of the Trans-Siberian railway line, although in recent times it has come to the fore...
Notizie
Calvino, le città invisibili, l’Istantanea Ensemble
Continuano le celebrazioni del centenario di Italo Calvino. Il 19 aprile prossimo l’ulteriore omaggio al grande autore arriverà dal Teatro Comunale di Ferrara grazie all’Istantanea Ensemble,...
