“Thelonious in Action”: Monk, Oblique Time, and the Art of Deviation (Riverside Records, 1958)
Michael Mantler’s “Movies”: Eight Sonic Stills for an Imaginary Film
“Domino”: Roland Kirk’s Polyphonic Encyclopedism in the Wake of the 1960s Avant-Garde
Freddie Hubbard: Beyond the Ardour of Hard Bop, the Constructive Rigour and Acoustic Glazes of “The Rose Tattoo” (Baystate, 1983)
Jimmy Giuffre’s “Free Fall”: The Dissolution of Meter and the Pure Physiognomy of Sound (Columbia, 1963)
«Non-Places» conforma un progetto in cui riflessione teorica, cura della forma e ricerca sul colore del suono trovano una sintesi...
«What Became of the Light» si segnala in definitiva come una tra le testimonianze più felici della recente produzione jazzistica...
La voce diventa il luogo nel quale confluiscono composizione, poesia, improvvisazione e ricerca acustica. Il quartetto le consente di confrontarsi...
«Face to Face» demanda alla dimensione più immediata del fare musica, due strumenti e due musicisti in rapporto diretto, una...
Un esordio che, già nella scelta del proprio immaginario, manifesta una precisa inclinazione verso l’indagine e lascia intravedere una concezione...
Il «rumore latino» di Bai nasce da una precisa idea di pluralità musicale. Choro, candombe, tango, milonga, latin jazz e...
The ambient noise of the venue, the audience's reactions, the quartet's fluidity, and the sheer power of the performances all converge to convey...
Mantler offers no narrative, and it is precisely this void that liberates the visionary faculties of the listener. The music assumes...
Their encounter yields a form of chamber jazz in which complexity remains subservient to the listening experience and...
Music, books, and major jazz figures between the Teatro San Leonardo and the Teatro dell’Unione // by Irma Sanders...
The technical mastery demonstrated by Roland Kirk answered to a rigorous structural logic, aimed at transcending the physical limits of the...
The sonic aura enveloping the entire work eludes the conventional categories of popularization, offering the musicologist a stratified text wherein...
“Awakenings” presents itself as a project in which jazz composition, Sardinian cultural memory, and the experience of geographical mobility converge...
// a Cura della Redazione // Amii Stewart e Dee Dee Bridgewater: due dive della black music incorniciano il cartellone...
Marc Ribot, Artifacts Trio, Mary Halvorson, Aruán Ortiz: international jazz luminaries meet Italian talent; the protagonists of...
«Milonga do mar» documents the inception of a recording journey that entrusts the plurality of musical origins and chamber dialectics...
// di Stefano Dentice // Da venerdì 25 settembre 2026, disponibile questo nuovo disco solo in formato digitale Pubblicato dall’etichetta...
Far from constituting a mere exercise in nostalgia, the recording for the Baystate label demonstrates a remarkable structural rigor, wherein every progression...
Allieri transforms instability into a creative opportunity, entrusting the piano with the task of rendering audible that which remains...
Cassandra's profound voice does not proclaim absolute truths, nor does it foretell tragic future events like her mythological namesake...
The absence of a fixed tonal center allows the trio to achieve a consummate synthesis between the extemporaneity of the jazz gesture and...
The confrontation between jazz and rock unfolds through a selection of distinct methodologies, from the freedom of interplay to the primacy of the score,...
“Earache” originated from a succession of intuitions that only subsequently found a unified design. Its distinctive quality lies...
Solid academic training, far from stifling his original expressive urgency in jazz, disciplined his phrasing, endowing it with that formal clarity and that...
«The Joy of Flying» thus stands as an encyclopedic compendium of American instrumental modernism, a work in which the drums...
The two sessions document a conception in which individual improvisation and collective composition preserve a mutual independence, with Quincy...
Beneath the linguistic playfulness lies a precise awareness of the Organ Trio's accumulated experience, the necessity of preserving authentic interaction, and...
The answer materializes in the ensemble's timbral configuration, in the complexity of the expressive texture, and above all in the relationship between the writing of...
Rollins seeks neither the formal vertigo nor the conceptual austerity of other eras in his career. He prefers a daily music, imbued with...
The Canadian pianist, assisted by Jesper Lundgaard on double bass, shapes a musical design rooted in the deconstruction of thematic material, offering...
Although musicians of remarkable caliber continue to perpetuate the jazz-sapiens lineage today, the path, however jagged and...
...a painting is the painter's medium just as a book is the writer's; a house belongs to the architect just as...
Far more than a mere debut statement, “Illusion” reveals a musician deeply engaged with the relationship between compositional control and performative unpredictability....
Across all tracks, one appreciates the extraordinary interplay among the musicians on stage, with a shared collective value, without...
The sonic texture woven by the two soloists did not unfold according to the conventions of traditional alternation between soloist and accompaniment,...
“Guardando oltre” thus assumes the character of an open-ended inquiry, wherein jazz becomes a practice of listening and questioning,...
There are moments of overt friction, particularly between the dissolution of The Beatles and the early successes of their solo careers (1970–1975):...
True disobedience does not lie in denying a rule, but in refusing to allow any rule to become definitive. Ferraiuolo and...
// di Aldo Gradimento // Charles Mingus - Umbria Jazz Festival – 1974 Dopo il suo arrivo a Perugia, in...
Each member renounces individual prominence to integrate into the molecular organization of the sound, sealing an album that deftly eludes the clichés of...
Her voice, deep and unmistakable, never demanded that the repertoire conform to a predetermined mold: rather, it compelled it each time...
Rather than declaring an aesthetic affiliation, Gasparro prefers to engage with the diverse possibilities of musical language. It is precisely this willingness to avoid establishing...
The King may become the sole survivor, the tiger may finally leave its cage, and the saxophonist may seek a voice of his own....
The syntactic balance of his insights, wherein complexity never abdicates melodic grace, continues to serve as an invaluable proving ground...
The celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Umbria Jazz in the summer of 2013 found its focal point in an event conceived as an exclusive...
An artistic saga that began thirty-nine years earlier in the open-air squares of 1974 and concluded in 2013 at the Arena Santa Giuliana, which...
"Windflower" seeks neither facile effect nor surprise for its own sake. Its strength stems rather from the three musicians' ability...
The project's most accomplished dimension arises precisely from this ability to avoid a mere catalogue effect, bringing disparate musical languages into dialogue without...
The human being emerges in all their multiplicity, traversed by desires, fears, conflicts, aspirations, and relational needs that cannot be reduced...
This discographical journey establishes itself as a mature reflection on contemporary composition, in which the reference to an imaginary cinema ceases to be...
World-caliber artists featured at the Francavilla Fontana festival // by Stefano Dentice // Anticipation reaches unprecedented heights as the...
The critical reception of the Perugia event by the national and international press revealed a profound hermeneutic divide, polarized between orthodoxy...
The corpus of selected arias demonstrates how Rava operated not through the mere superimposition of idioms, but via a conscious translation. // by...
The critical reception that the Italian and foreign specialized press accorded to the Gil Evans Orchestra's performance on July 29...
European criticism, particularly from the German and British spheres, has consistently attempted to redress the oversight of American reviewers...
"Quarto" bears witness to the attainment of a full linguistic maturity, wherein Caliri's rigorous writing finds an ideal counterpoint...
Jan Garbarek's conceptual legacy stands at the center of contemporary music historiography as the founding act of an autonomous...
Contemporary listening ultimately allows us to recognize in "Crucial Moment" a particularly significant testament to the modernization of Italian jazz. The recording...
Through the synthesis of academic rigor and the truth of the street, Gary Bartz's oeuvre continues to reverberate in...
Michael Brecker's linguistic legacy for contemporary generations demands sociological and musicological reflection, as his pedagogical influence...
Miles would have let them breathe, would have calibrated their contribution, would have, in certain instances, had them play more softly. The...
The codification of the performance practice conventionally termed "doodle-tonguing" responded, within the trombonist's creative economy, to an urgent necessity for expressive survival...
The brass instruments of Ralph and Joseph Alessi are not deployed according to the traditional model of the trumpet-trombone pairing meant to reinforce...
The value of the album lies above all in its capacity to transform a production originally conceived for the stage into a recorded work possessing...
Far from being merely another chapter in Satoyama’s discography, "Concrete Islands" offers a profound reflection on the capacity of a work of art to...
The "stua scura" evoked by Zennaro ultimately finds a tangible counterpart within the music itself. Not merely an imaginary realm in...
Fabio Nardulli delivers a conceptual work that invites the listener to dwell on the nuances of language and sound, restoring to...
The album stands not only as a phonographic document of the highest artistic caliber, but also as a vital theoretical manifesto on...
Reducing Guccini to the role of a purely "political" singer-songwriter would diminish the true scope of his oeuvre. Protest was merely one facet of...
A concept of profound intellectual inquiry, wherein David Occhipinti demonstrates a masterful command of twentieth-century avant-garde idioms and...
Silence operates not as a mere void, but as a liminal, entropic space within which the listener is invited to...
The harmonic architecture of the album unfolds along a dual trajectory, preserving the evocative purity of plainsong and Celtic roots, while...
On the centenary of Miles Davis's birth, a week of music, art, and culture exploring the legacy of a seminal figure...
Miles Davis exercised leadership through subtraction rather than addition. He spoke sparingly, explained even less, relying instead on presence, posture, and...
The album firmly establishes the profile of a musician primarily devoted to the quality of musical thought, formal coherence, and the exploration of...
// di Valentina Voto // Paola Bensi è una fotografa milanese, che dalle sue prime esperienze in radio e in...
I would be gratified if it were received as a conversion manual to Miles for those who have never listened to him with...
Following its opening segment in Tuoro sul Trasimeno, MSC 26 first arrives in the splendid Umbrian village of Monte Castello di...
Rather than leaning on virtuosic display, Riccardo Zorzi anchors his recording debut on the quality of mutual listening and the trust placed in...
Abruptly stripped of their contracted engagements for the summer season, the orchestra members have found themselves excluded from revenue streams...
The guitar sheds its percussive nature to take on a dimension akin to that of a bowed instrument...
