Michael Mantler’s “Movies”: Eight Sonic Stills for an Imaginary Film
Mantler offers no narrative, and it is precisely this void that liberates the visionary faculties of the listener. The music assumes...
Mese: Settembre 2026
“Blue Prelude”: Marilena Paradisi and Natalino Marchetti: The Voice, the Bellows, and the Art of Variation (Losen Records, 2026)
Their encounter yields a form of chamber jazz in which complexity remains subservient to the listening experience and...
21st Jazz-Up Festival Viterbo, October 17 to November 15, 2026
Music, books, and major jazz figures between the Teatro San Leonardo and the Teatro dell’Unione // by Irma Sanders...
Profile of Rahsaan Roland Kirk: “Being able to play three saxophones with two hands, I should be able to play one saxophone with one hand”
The technical mastery demonstrated by Roland Kirk answered to a rigorous structural logic, aimed at transcending the physical limits of the...
“Domino”: Roland Kirk’s Polyphonic Encyclopedism in the Wake of the 1960s Avant-Garde
The sonic aura enveloping the entire work eludes the conventional categories of popularization, offering the musicologist a stratified text wherein...
“Awakenings” by Jordan Corda: Jazz Idiom between Geographical Dimension and Interior Inquiry (A.MA Records, 2026)
“Awakenings” presents itself as a project in which jazz composition, Sardinian cultural memory, and the experience of geographical mobility converge...
Padova Jazz Festival, 28th Edition: October 10 (Preview). From October 22 to November 8, 2026
// a Cura della Redazione // Amii Stewart e Dee Dee Bridgewater: due dive della black music incorniciano il cartellone...
FLUX – Flows of Creative Music, From October 18 to December 6 at PARC in Florence
Marc Ribot, Artifacts Trio, Mary Halvorson, Aruán Ortiz: international jazz luminaries meet Italian talent; the protagonists of...
Dangerous Encounters Trio with «Milonga do mar»: Three Voices, Plural Languages, a Singular Quest (Dodicilune, 2026)
«Milonga do mar» documents the inception of a recording journey that entrusts the plurality of musical origins and chamber dialectics...
Manas 3o – «Empty Roads After the Rain» (WoW Records, 2026)
// di Stefano Dentice // Da venerdì 25 settembre 2026, disponibile questo nuovo disco solo in formato digitale Pubblicato dall’etichetta...
Freddie Hubbard: Beyond the Ardour of Hard Bop, the Constructive Rigour and Acoustic Glazes of “The Rose Tattoo” (Baystate, 1983)
Far from constituting a mere exercise in nostalgia, the recording for the Baystate label demonstrates a remarkable structural rigor, wherein every progression...
Diego Allieri with “Equilibri Precari”: The Principle of Instability in Pianistic Writing
Allieri transforms instability into a creative opportunity, entrusting the piano with the task of rendering audible that which remains...
Dedicated to the Memory of Cassandra Wilson: “Traveling Miles”, 1999
Cassandra's profound voice does not proclaim absolute truths, nor does it foretell tragic future events like her mythological namesake...
Jimmy Giuffre’s “Free Fall”: The Dissolution of Meter and the Pure Physiognomy of Sound (Columbia, 1963)
The absence of a fixed tonal center allows the trio to achieve a consummate synthesis between the extemporaneity of the jazz gesture and...
Federico Rondolini's «Blooming»: Fragments of Light Within a Restless Sonic Matter (EMME Records, 2026)
The confrontation between jazz and rock unfolds through a selection of distinct methodologies, from the freedom of interplay to the primacy of the score,...
Ear Trio's «Earache»: Unprecedented Jazz Constellations (EMME Records, 2026)
“Earache” originated from a succession of intuitions that only subsequently found a unified design. Its distinctive quality lies...
Joe Wilder: A Multifaceted Musician, a Trumpet Bridging Two Eras
Solid academic training, far from stifling his original expressive urgency in jazz, disciplined his phrasing, endowing it with that formal clarity and that...
The Polygon of Fusion: Eclecticism and Percussive Dialectics in Tony Williams's «The Joy of Flying» (Columbia, 1979)
«The Joy of Flying» thus stands as an encyclopedic compendium of American instrumental modernism, a work in which the drums...
«Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones»: Evolution of Orchestral Dynamics (Roost Records, 1956)
The two sessions document a conception in which individual improvisation and collective composition preserve a mutual independence, with Quincy...
«La danza dei cervelli rotti» by the Matteo Addabbo Organ Trio: Fifteen Years Together, Between Irony and Rigor (Dodicilune, 2026)
Beneath the linguistic playfulness lies a precise awareness of the Organ Trio's accumulated experience, the necessity of preserving authentic interaction, and...
Mike Gibbs & Gary Burton with "In The Public Interest": The Orchestra as a Breeding Ground Rather Than a Mere Volume Multiplier (Polydor, 1974)
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...
Sonny Rollins’ “No Problem”: The Tenor and the Slanted Light of the 1980s (Milestone Records, 1981)
Rollins seeks neither the formal vertigo nor the conceptual austerity of other eras in his career. He prefers a daily music, imbued with...
The Geometry of the Fragment and the Aesthetics of Silence. Paul Bley and Jesper Lundgaard: The Speculative Abstraction of the Extemporaneous Gesture in “Live” (SteepleChase, 1988)
The Canadian pianist, assisted by Jesper Lundgaard on double bass, shapes a musical design rooted in the deconstruction of thematic material, offering...
"Wayne Shorter: Il Messaggero degli Dèi" – The New Book by Francesco Cataldo Verrina (Kriterius Edizioni)
Although musicians of remarkable caliber continue to perpetuate the jazz-sapiens lineage today, the path, however jagged and...
Claudio Fasoli: My Instrument
...a painting is the painter's medium just as a book is the writer's; a house belongs to the architect just as...
Antonio Macchia 5tet: "Illusion" Between Rigor and Invention (Dodicilune, 2026)
Far more than a mere debut statement, “Illusion” reveals a musician deeply engaged with the relationship between compositional control and performative unpredictability....
Concert Review: Michael Rosen Quartet / The Spiritual Voice / John Coltrane Tribute. September 4, 2026
Across all tracks, one appreciates the extraordinary interplay among the musicians on stage, with a shared collective value, without...
Umbria Jazz 1988: Wayne Shorter and Carlos Santana in Perugia
The sonic texture woven by the two soloists did not unfold according to the conventions of traditional alternation between soloist and accompaniment,...
Tommaso Genovesi with "Guardando oltre": Reality Viewed from Another Perspective (Caligola Records, 2026)
“Guardando oltre” thus assumes the character of an open-ended inquiry, wherein jazz becomes a practice of listening and questioning,...
The Beatles, or Lennon or McCartney: Reflections on Ian Leslie's Volume "John + Paul"
There are moments of overt friction, particularly between the dissolution of The Beatles and the early successes of their solo careers (1970–1975):...
"Disubbidire sempre" by Fausto Ferraiuolo / Gabriele Mirabassi: The Art of Non-Conformity (Dodicilune, 2026)
True disobedience does not lie in denying a rule, but in refusing to allow any rule to become definitive. Ferraiuolo and...
Charles Mingus and His Relationship with Italy
// di Aldo Gradimento // Charles Mingus - Umbria Jazz Festival – 1974 Dopo il suo arrivo a Perugia, in...
Adam O’Farrill with “Elephant”: Between Tradition and Innovation
Each member renounces individual prominence to integrate into the molecular organization of the sound, sealing an album that deftly eludes the clichés of...
Cassandra Wilson Has Passed Away: The Southern Voice That Redefined the Boundaries of Jazz
Her voice, deep and unmistakable, never demanded that the repertoire conform to a predetermined mold: rather, it compelled it each time...
"Miniatures for Solo Vibraphone" by Vitantonio Gasparro: A Solitary Flight via Metallophone
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...
Bruno Centomo, "The Tigers and the Chess King: A Novel of Jazz and Destiny"
The King may become the sole survivor, the tiger may finally leave its cage, and the saxophonist may seek a voice of his own....
A Profile of Steve Swallow: Counterpuntal Textures and Chamber Abstraction in Modern Jazz
The syntactic balance of his insights, wherein complexity never abdicates melodic grace, continues to serve as an invaluable proving ground...
