In the realm of trombones
Three album reviews about the trombone:
1) Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch, 2024)
2) RAGE Trombones - Breaking Ships (Tripticks Tapes, 2024)
3) Sliders - Sliders (Hora, 2024)
American trombonist-eductor Dan Blacksberg is a...
Phillip Greenlief & Kris Tiner – See You This Time
American, West Coast tenor sax player-composer-educator Phillip Greenlief and trumpeter-composer-educator-Epigraph label owner Kris Tiner have explored the post-jazz continuum and connections between improvisational music traditions and systemic practices, blending jazz roots with multiple streams...
Stefan Keune / Steve Noble / Dominic Lash – Black Box
The free improvising trio of German sax player Stefan Keune with prolific British drummer Steve Noble, and double bass player Dominic Lash first performed in 2013 at late guitarist John Russell's monthly Mopomoso afternoon...
Manuel Teles: Lisboa-Milano
Nell'immaginario collettivo sono ancora poco conosciute le differenti sfaccettature del saxofono, pur essendo uno strumento decisamente noto. L'associazione all'ambito jazzistico è di sicuro la più comune, eppure il suo repertorio spazia tra diversi generi...
Masayo Koketsu / Nava Dunkelman / Tim Berne – Poiēsis
Japanese, Tokyo-based alto sax player Masayo Koketsu only recently began to gain international interest in her work. She releases most of her albums on her Bandcamp page, often duos with drummer Tatsuya Nakamura, but...
Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block – I Know the Number of the Sand and...
Lea Bertucci is a New York-based experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of woodwind instruments and vocal artistry, as well as bridges performance, installation, and multichannel activations of site-responsiveness and...
Christian Moser – Abrash
Swiss, Basel-based Christian Moser plays the Middle-Eastern lute, the oud, like no other. In his youth, he studied the violin but at 18 he discovered the oud, and after a few years of taking...
Toshio Hosokawa: Light and Darkness – Works for Saxophone
E' un'ottima idea quella di suddividere le opere di un compositore in gruppi omogenei per famiglia di strumenti. Un'analisi di questo tipo permette non solo di ottenere una migliore valutazione del compositore in merito...
Michelle Lou: Near Distant
In una delle tante connessioni al tempo che caratterizzarono il temperamento filosofico e musicale di Morton Feldman ve n'è una che ha avuto modo di dimostrarsi profetica. Feldman si accorse che ogni categorizzazione del...
Stefano Leonardi & Antonio Bertoni: Fuoco Sacro
Fuoco Sacro (Sacred Fire) is the second duo album of Italian flutist Stefano Leonardi and cellist (and double bass player) Antonio Bertoni, following Viandes (Astral Spirits, 2021. The duo project was based on Leonardi's...
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MMI Free Impro Festival
Sin dalla sua prima edizione nel 2016 l'MMI Festival ha costituito una bella piattaforma d'incontro per gli improvvisatori liberi provenienti da differenti città europee....
