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Bernt Rosengren
Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm - Revisited
by Stefano Merighi
Nel percorso artistico di molti, è decisivo il rapporto tra emancipazione ed auto-affermazione. Il jazz moderno è spesso testimone di una dialettica feconda tra individualismo e trama collettiva, ma è dirimente il tema dell'originalità. Se sei come tutti gli altri, a che serve il jazz?," diceva spesso Monk. E un vero percorso," costellato da innumerevoli stazioni, è stato quello di Don Cherry, mai del tutto soddisfatto delle sue conquiste, costantemente messe in discussione. Ammesso e non concesso che Cherry sia ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
Swedish saxophonist Bernt Rosengren had already made his mark in various small group settings by the time he turned his attention to building a big band in the mid '70s. His tenor had captured the attention of many an ear in director Roman Polanski's Knife In The Water (Zespol, 1962), and his work with trumpeter Thad Jones, pianist George Russell, and trumpeter Don Cherry gave him a certain cachet within the European and American jazz scenes, but Rosengren's restless spirit ...
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by Chris Mosey
Once one of the young lions of the Swedish modern jazz movement, saxophonist Bernt Rosengren is now, at the age of 73, one of its elder statesmen. With I'm Flying, which he and his fellow musicians financed themselves, he has won--for the fifth time--Sweden's annual Golden Record (Gyllene Skivan) award. Rosengren, a shy, diffident man who shuns publicity, remains by and large unknown outside the Nordic Area; with his tiny record company and its Swedish distributor, Plugged Music, yet to ...
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by Jack Bowers
If the name Bernt Rosengren doesn't ring a bell, it probably would if you lived in Sweden. Rosengren, an unabashed champion of such implacable hard-boppers as Gene Ammons, Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin, has been one of that country's leading tenor saxophonists for more than half a century, and as his latest CD affirms, he's still flying high.
On this quartet date, Rosengren tests his mettle by surrounding himself with members of the younger generation--pianist Stefan Gustafson, bassist ...
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