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Mirna Bogdanovic: Confrontation

Read "Confrontation" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Arrestingly postmodern and warmly familiar in the same space, Mirna Bogdanović's fourth release, Confrontation, stops just short of dismantling contemporary jazz and pop in favor of retaining those elements that tickle the memory's nostalgia receptors in such a way that the listener recognises the music as compelling, while at the same time not being able to explain why. This dichotomy represents a core intention of all art: the ability to evoke awe and confusion (manifested as sudden wonder). The Berlin-based ...

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Dave McDonnell Group: The Dragon & the Griffin

Read "The Dragon & the Griffin" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Chicagoano ma attivo a Cincinnati, Dave McDonnell è sassofonista jazz, insegnante di musica e tecnologia, inventore di software, protagonista in diversi gruppi tra cui Herculaneum. Il gruppo in questione coinvolge nomi ben noti della attuale scena di Chicago, tra cui Joshua Abrams e Frank Rosaly, poderosa sezione ritmica che in questo caso garantisce solidità a una musica non troppo avventurosa benchè disinvolta. Le composizioni, talune in cinque quarti, sfruttano patterns ripetitivi con pochi centri tonali e chiamano ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Confrontation

Klaeng Records
2020

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The Dragon & the...

New Atlantis Records
2015

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Starlight

Jazzwerkstatt
2013

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Stick No Bill

Unit Records
2011

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Off Minor

Jazzwerkstatt
2005

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