Anthony Braxton, No. 289
This past year has been a dynamic one for the blog: we welcomed a bunch of new ears to the collective, received over 2000 recordings and requests for reviews, and counted over 1.63 million pageviews. We reported on festivals in the USA (Big Ears, No Idea, Vision Fest and Winter Jazz Fest) and Europe (Wels Unlimited, Jazz…
By Keith Prosk and Paul Acquaro
Momentum 4 is a box set of duo recordings by Ken Vandermark, recorded at the Elastic Sound Studios in Chicago in 2015 and 2019, and at NYC’s Stone in January 2018. The idea was to capture rare duo performances – even if the musical relationships have been ago long established.
In our review, we have deviated fro…
Petra Cvelbar by Aleksandra Sasa Prelesnik
By Eyal Hareuveni and Paul Acquaro
What are some of your recent projects?
I have two projects concerning music: one is titled Sweet Addiction, wich includes my best music photos. Three years ago I made a small book-diary as promotion of upcoming exhibitions under that title. Besides that, I also hav…
Yeah, it’s that time again! Last year, Mars William’s Ayler Xmas rolled through Berlin and in a packed cellar club the quartet blazed through a set-list full of holiday madness, with Christmas and Chanukka favorites being lovingly deconstructed and glued back together with abandon. The show was even better than the album – Volume II – that had…
We continue our celebration of the 50thAnniversary of ECM with three favorite ECM recordings from each of our writers. Please note, there is no order to sequence of writers…
Lee Rice Epstein
Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender (1981)
All the Magic! (1983)
I Only Have Eyes For You (1985)
Channeling, honoring, and spoofing Louis Armstrong…
Ziga Koritnik by Mats Aleklint
By Eyal Hareuveniand Paul Acquaro
This profile is the first part of a short series of profiles on photographers focusing on the creative music scene.
What are some of your recent projects?
For last few years I have been working on my new book of music
photography Cloud Arrangers. We published it in January …
The evening of Jazzfest Berlin’s final night began with a lively duo with guitarist Florian Sotffner and percussionist Paul Lovens, and ended with a passionate set from Marc Robot, between which we experienced a uniquely Berlin ‘fungus’ opera and the holistic sound world of Antony Braxton.
Photo by Cistina Marx
The opening event was the awa…
By David Menestres
I first met Nick Millevoi a couple of years ago when we played on the same
night at Neptune’s Parlour in Raleigh, NC, me with one of Eugene
Chadbourne’s projects and Nick with the Desertion Trio, an ear splittingly
loud project, refracting the history of electric guitar over the throbbing
bass of Johnny De…
I think the best place to start this review is with today’s Q&A with Argentinian percussionist Pablo Diaz and pianist Paula Shocron, in which Shocron writes “I think that it’s easy for a guest to join us, I feel it almost always works. I feel we have great facility to adapt ourselves and our language to different instrumentation.”
I c…
Paula Shocron, William Parker, and Pablo Diaz.Photo byPeter Gannushkin
The Free Jazz Blog has given the musical adventures of drummer Pablo Diaz and pianist Paula Shocron some attention over the past few years, first with a review of the SLD Trio’s first album Anfitrion, then on their follow up, Tensegridad, and again on a few recordings o…
We were surprised to learn about the sudden passing of poet Steve Dalachinsky early Monday morning. Steve was a omnipresent figure on the Downtown Music scene, a fan of the music, and one of those ever rarer true New Yorkers. At a show in Brooklyn this summer, he told me “Ahh, I like Berlin, I only have one enemy there. Here in New York, I have lot…
It can be a pretty special event when Berlin based guitarist Olaf Rupp and clarinetist Rudi Mahall get together with the Danish percussionist Kaspar Tom. It does not happen too often but when it does, musical sparks fly. For those unable to catch these rare appearances, we luckily have the eponymous titled recording, expertly captured by Rupp …
