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Barre Phillips, Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: Danze degli scorpioni
by Neri Pollastri
Sebbene arrivi con ben quindici anni di ritardo, è decisamente benvenuta questa documentazione del concerto in duo di uno dei massimi maestri dell'improvvisazione europea, il contrabbassista (in realtà d'origini statunitensi) Barre Phillips, e il clarinettista italiano Giancarlo “Nino" Locatelli. Svoltasi in Austria il 2 maggio del 2008, in occasione dell'Ulrichsberger Keleidophon, e interamente improvvisata, la perfromance fu apprezzatissima--come testimoniano la presenza di due bis e le entusiastiche note del danzatore Julyen Hamilton, che di Phillips è stato molte volte partner ...
read moreEuphorium_freakestra: Free Acoustic Supergroup
by Mark Corroto
Thanks to pianist and director Oliver Schwerdt, the Euphorium_freakestra is and always has been a glorious experiment in organized disorganization. The double CD Free Acoustic Supergroup is the ensemble's seventh release. Schwerdt's experiments began with the single disc Ðal Ngai (Euphorium Records, 2004) and eventually the group's 3-CD Grande Casino (Euphorium Records, 2018). Ðal Ngai included the guest artists Friedrich Schenker and Günter Baby Sommer. Other releases found the ensemble hosting musicians such as Thomas Lehn, Barry Guy, and Bertrand ...
read moreHeiner Stadler: Brains on Fire
by Howard Mandel
Brains on Fire fuels reflection on the past and response in the present. These eight extraordinary extended tracks, recorded in unusual conjunctions of master jazz improvisers instigated by composer/pianist Heiner Stadler for sessions held from 1966 through 1974, are alive with the passions of that era celebrating large, original works stretching the bounds of even the most ambitious music come before. As Stadler and his cadre of fully collaborative, creative interpreters brought immense smarts, skills and sensibilities besides ...
read moreMike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks
by Maurizio Comandini
Mike Westbrook, pianista e soprattutto direttore di orchestra, è nato il 21 marzo del 1936 a High Wycombe, 50 chilometri a nord-ovest di Londra. Dapprima tentato dalla Art School di Plymouth, si dedica poi con decisione alla musica, dalla fine degli anni cinquanta. Nel 1958 forma la sua prima band per la quale gli capita di reclutare il sedicenne John Surman, giovane talento emergente che stava terminando il suo percorso scolastico. Quattro anni dopo Westbrook si sposta a Londra per ...
read morePhillips, Butcher, Solberg: We Met - And Then
by John Sharpe
Sometimes three is a crowd, but when the company is as empathetic and welcoming as the fertile established partnership of British saxophonist John Butcher and Swedish percussionist Ståle Liavik Solberg, then the addition of veteran American bassist Barre Phillips serves as more of a benediction. Butcher and Solberg only came together in 2015, but the success of that encounter, documented on So Beautiful, It Starts To Rain (Clean Feed, 2016), encouraged further liaison not only as a twosome, ...
read moreBarre Phillips/Mike Bullock: At Home
by Mark Sullivan
With End To End (ECM Records, 2018), Barre Phillips made his final major statement in the solo double bass format he created. In 2019 fellow American bassist Mike Bullock visited him at his secluded mountainside home in France, a 17th century stone house attached to an 11th century stone church. The pair spent a couple of relaxed hours in the Chapelle Sainte Philomène playing solos on Phillips' double bass, each playing a few minutes and passing the instrument back and ...
read moreBarre Phillips: End To End
by Mark Sullivan
Legendary double bassist and improviser Barre Phillips writes what is billed as the final chapter in his storied history of solo bass recordings on the aptly titled End To End. He recorded what is generally regarded as the first solo double bass album in 1968 with Journal Violone (Opus One)--an unplanned event, as he intended the music to be source material for composer Max Schubel. He followed that with the first improvised double bass duet album with Dave Holland, Music ...
read moreBarre Phillips: Three Day Moon (ECM 1123)
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Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
Barre Phillips Three Day Moon
Barre Phillips bass Terje Rypdal guitar, guitar synthesizer, organ Dieter Feichtner synthesizer Trilok Gurtu tabla, percussion Recorded March 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher
I have said it before and I will say it again: Barre Phillips is one of ECM's most underrecognized treasures. A maverick of the upright bass, his is a mind ...
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Barre Phillips Exhibition in France
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Michael Ricci
The Life and Work of Barre Phillips is the subject of an exhibition at Nice's Bibliotheque Louis Nucra, running from December 11 2009 to February 6 2010. Titled 40 ans de cration musicale", the exhibition looks at aspects of the great bassist's work since moving from America to France in 1969, including documentation of many tours, recordings and more. Films and performance are also part of the programme, with Barre Phillips giving four Saturday afternoon concerts. On December 12, Barre ...
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Firehouse 12 to Present Dave & Barre Phillips November 30th
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Improvised Communications
On Friday, November 30th, father and son bassists Barre and Dave Phillips will perform at New Haven's Firehouse 12 as part of their first ever tour together. The pair will also record together as a duo for the first time at Firehouse 12 the following day. Their tour, called Basfidel, Father & Son," is made possible with support from Chamber Music America and French American Cultural Exchange's CMA/FACE French-American Jazz Exchange Program, and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, ...
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Basfidel (Barre Phillips/Bass and Dave Phillips/Bass) - Northeast Tour
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All About Jazz
Basfidel (Barre Phillips/Bass and Dave Phillips/Bass) will be embarking on an east coast tour, which will run from November 28th through December 2nd, 2007. The performances will be held in New York City, New Haven, Ct. and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Basfidel Barre Phillips - Bass Dave Phillips - Bass November 28: Barbe's, Brooklyn NY 8pm 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn For information Call 718.965.9177 Admisssion $10 8:00 PM November 30: Firehouse 12 ...
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