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Jeremy Monteiro: Sings
by Ian Patterson
Singapore's King of Swing, as pianist Jeremy Monteiro is fondly known in the Lion City-state, has been plying his professional craft since 1976. Since then, Monteiro has played thousands of gigs, many of those with the likes of James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Michael Brecker, Benny Golson, Charlie Haden, Jay Anderson and Ernie Watts. Talk about paying your dues. When you add to that list Simon and Garfunkel and English troubadour Earl Okin, it is fair to say that this is ...
read moreJim McNeely/Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Rituals
by Jack Bowers
The first thirty-three minutes or so of Rituals, the latest album by the excellent Frankfurt Radio (hr) Big Band, is an homage to Igor Stravinsky's symphonic suite The Rite of Spring, which premiered in Paris in 1913, reimagined in the Stravinsky spirit" by the group's director, Jim McNeely, in a big-band framework and featuring the acclaimed American tenor saxophonist Chris Potter. The first three movements are designated Adoration," the next two Sacrifice," and McNeely has added a sixth, Rituals Rebirth," ...
read moreJim McNeely Frankfurt Radio Big Band feat. Chris Potter: Rituals
by Angelo Leonardi
Commissionata dall'Alte Oper Frankfurt a Jim McNeely nell'ambito del festival dedicato a Stravinsky del 2013, quest'originale esecuzione de Le Sacre du Printemps" è stata registrata due anni dopo in studio e viene pubblicata solo ora. Assieme all'arrangiatore di Chicago, i protagonisti sono Chris Potter al sax tenore e soprano, e la Frankfurt Radio Big Band. La presenza di una figura solista chiarisce da subito che non si tratta di una rivisitazione de La sagra della primavera" ma ...
read moreEuropean Jazz Conference 2015
by Ian Patterson
European Jazz Conference Budapest Music Centre Budapest, Hungary September 24-27, 2015 In times when war and poverty are provoking large-scale migrations to Europe, the responses both individually and collectively of the European nations have raised important questions concerning responsibility, human rights, humanitarian aid and trans-national collaboration. In the light of Orwellian fences, jazz--that most trans-national of all music--provides a prism through which it's possible to re-examine our capacity to work and play together despite differences ...
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