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« 15/02/2010 : Point of Departure # 27 »

Issue 27 of Point of Departure launches 4 February 2010 

Issue 27 includes excerpts from Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II by Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones  (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press; Lafayette, Louisiana) and Creative Life: Music, Politics, People and Machines by Bob Ostertag (University of Illinois Press; Champaign, Illinois)
Issue 27 also includes Ed Hazell’s history of Jemeel Moondoc and Muntu, an important, overlooked exponent of the Loft Jazz movement of the 1970s.  Also included are seven rarely seen photographs by Anko C. Wierenga and Tom Marcello .
This issue's respondent to the Travellin' Light questionnaire is percussionist-composer Michael Zerang.
In the columns: Stuart Broomer talks to percussionist-composer Gino Robair about his opera, I, Norton; Art Lange examines the influence of Domenico Scarlatti on sundry jazz pianists; Brian Morton is taken to task about Sunny Murray; and Bill Shoemaker revisits the legacy of New York Art Quartet.
Recordings reviewed in Moment’s Notice include albums by Muhal Richard Abrams + Roscoe Mitchell; Chicago Underground Duo; Circulasione Totale Orchestra; Philly Joe Jones Dameronia; Kenny Dorham; Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio; Dominic Duval + Cecil Taylor; Empirical; Augusti Fernández + Barry Guy; Grosse Abfahrt; Ulrich Gumpert + Günter Baby Sommer; Fred Ho + The Green Monster Big Band; Myra Melford's Be Bread; Mostly Other People Do the Killing; The New Mellow Edwards; Mike Olson; Evan Parker; Matthew Shipp; Sum; and James Tenney.

 

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/

« 07/02/2010 : M. Edelin trio et R. Mitchell 4tet »

N'oubliez pas, mardi soir 9 janvier au Kremlin Bicêtre (dans le cadre de Sons d'Hiver) les deux concerts à ne pas manquer sous aucun prétexte :

Michel Edelin trio (M. Edelin, J-J. Avenel,  J. Betsch) invite Nicole Mitchell et Steve Lehman

Roscoe Mitchell Quartet (R. Mitchell, H. Ragin, A. Spence Barefield, J. Shahid, T. Tabal)

http://www.sonsdhiver.org/fr/programme/concert.html?prog_id=7

« 04/02/2010 : Roscoe Mitchell & David Wessel CONTACT »

A review of Roscoe Mitchell & David Wessel CONTACT by John Sharpe in All About Jazz.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35393

« 31/01/2010 : Alphaville suite for the 1st time live »

WILLIAM PARKER DOUBLE QUARTET
ALPHAVILLE SUITE
INSPIRED BY JEAN-LUC GODARD MOVIE
  For the first time live!
Not to be missed!
 
Bologna, Italy, February 4th 2010, 9:30 pm
Nuovo Cinema Nosadella - Sala Scalo
via Lodovico Berti 2/7


More information: Angelica, ExB

http://www.aaa-angelica.com/aaa/godard

« 23/01/2010 : HAMID DRAKE & BINDU REGGAEOLOGY ON TOUR »

HAMID DRAKE & BINDU   REGGAEOLOGY
European tour, January/February 2010
January 29th, France: Cachan (near Paris) Festvival Sons d'Hiver, Théatre de Cachan, 
January 31st, Italy: Milano, Theatro Manzoni, aperitivo in concerto
February 1st, Italy: Padova, Centro d'Arte, Cinema Lux
February 5th, Italy: Padova, Teatro Villa Dei Leoni, Mira-Padova
February 6th, Switzeland: Chiasso, Chiasso Jazz Festival, Spazio Officina
Following the stream of time and the dances of Kâli, the successive incarnations of Bindu, more a crew, sailing, outward bound, an elective community of musicians, than a defined group of people, divulge the logbook of navigation by Hamid Drake. A logbook of boarding sounds, which is not written but delimits and unlimits the narrative space where the drummer and percussionist freely circulate...
...The third Bindu, dedicated to a rapprochement between “jazz” and “reggae” – neither a recording of “jazz” nor a recording of “reggae”, but a recording from the “Great Tradition” – continues to create open environments...
...Whatever he does, the creative musician states the collective value, the variable mutant of play. Euphoria. At the second hearing, if all goes well, if he got across Kâli’s heart, if he or she does not hide no more, the listener should have grown younger by two or three sources of happiness.
Excerpt from the liner notes, written by Alexandre Pierrepont
The album REGGAEOLOGY by HAMID DRAKE & BINDU will be available on January 27th 2010

http://www.artandnetwork.com/index.php

« 16/01/2010 : Nicole Mitchell »

Nicole Mitchell: Renegades, Anaya, Collective Creativity

by Jeff Stockton in All About Jazz

To call Nicole Mitchell the preeminent jazz flutist working in jazz today would be too limiting. Amid the remarkably fertile Chicago scene, she has distinguished herself as a top instrumentalist, composer, leader and musical ambassador, as well as serving as the president of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). 

To read the whole article, click on the link here below

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34994

« 10/01/2010 : Le Son du Grisli »

Le Son du Grisli #25 vient d'être mis en ligne : Chris Corsano, Morton Feldman, Charles Gayle, Frode Gjerstad...

http://www.lesondugrisli.com/

« 01/01/2010 : January 2010 at the Stone »

January 2010 program at the Stone is curated by Matana Roberts ; it will start on January 1st by a gig by Steve Dalachinsky.

http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=0

« 31/12/2009 : Matthew Shipp Goes Full-Frontal Nuclear »

An intersting debate initiated by Matthew Shipp...!!!

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=42873

« 24/12/2009 : TRANSATLANTIC VISIONS »

"TRANSATLANTIIC VISIONS" de Joëlle Léandre et George Lewis dans la sélection des meilleurs disques de l'année 2009 du Monde.

"... parce qu'il faut rester sérieux et se dire qu'un des disques de l'année, c'est aussi Joëlle Léandre en duo avec George Lewis" Francis Marmande, Le Monde du 19 décembre 2009

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2009/12/19/les-cd-de-2009-que-le-monde-a-prefere_1283135_3246.html

« 14/12/2009 : What is Jazz? Spanish police knows! »

Monday December 7th 2009, Siguenza Jazz Festival, Spain; LARRY OCHS SAX & DRUMMING CORE European tour last gig: a spectator called the police because he considered the music was not "jazz"; incredibly, the complaint was duly registered and will be passed on to a judge!
William Parker's statement immediately comes in mind: "How dare we spend so much valuable energy answering such questions as "What is Jazz"".
Whatever the label we put on the music, we are very pleased and proud to have released recently the latest and great LARRY OCHS SAX & DRUMMING CORE's album STONE SHIFT

http://susauvieuxmonde.canalblog.com/archives/2009/12/31/16337006.html