Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2013
Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013
Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House: Strong Place
Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House: Strong Place – review
(Intakt)
With last year's Camino Cielo Echo, US-based German saxophonist Laubrock unveiled noticeably more lyrical alternatives to the mix of tough free-sax improv and contemporary composing she delivered with Anti-House. Strong Place is an apt title, because she seems surer of her ground as both writer and player and this group – guitarist Mary Halvorson, pianist Kris Davis, bassist John Hebert and drummer Tom Rainey – sounds more organised yet spontaneously conversational than ever. Laubrock, whose creative independence took off after her move to New York, has acquired a new certainty about mingling the songlike phrasing of her earlier years with her Evan Parker-influenced recent past. Compelling themes and collective conversations emerge from clean-toned soprano-sax swirls, or dark, melancholy low-tenor exhalations. Halvorson supplies harp-like jangles, oblique swing or squalling noise (and the title track finds her at her warmest and richest, in partnership with Hebert's sumptuous bassline), pianist Davis can be abstractly percussive or lyrical, and Rainey is delicately textural or joltingly propulsive as the circumstances shift. Strong Place represents a step-change for Anti-House, offering budding jazz composers fresh ideas and inspiration.
Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2012
Mittwoch, 7. November 2012
RADIO RADIO RADIO: Schlippenbach plays Monk
LATE JUNCTION
BBC RADIO 3
Presented by Max Reinhardt
Thurs 15 Nov - 11pm till 12.30 am
A box of delights in which you'll find John Surman's Saltash Bells, the complete Tezeta by Gètatchèw Kassa, Thelonius Monk's Brilliant Corners performed by Alexander Von Schlippenbach and a Ravel Nocturne played by Alexei Lubimov & Alexei Zuev
CD: Schlippenbach plays Monk - Alexander von Schlippenbach: Solo Piano (Intakt Records)
Montag, 5. November 2012
CONCERT: AKI TAKASE and HAN BENNINK plus Paul van Kemenade
TAKASE & BENNINK in LONDON, 9 December
The fantastic duo of Japanese pianist AKI TAKASE & legendary Dutch drummer HAN BENNINK with guest Paul van Kemenade (saxophone) will play at The Vortex, London, on 9th of December, 8:30 pm. More information: vortexjazz.co.uk
Listen to:
CD: Aki Takase / Han Bennink: Two for Two (Intakt CD 193)
further information: www.intaktrec.ch
press photos: http://www.intaktrec.ch/photogallery.htm
The fantastic duo of Japanese pianist AKI TAKASE & legendary Dutch drummer HAN BENNINK with guest Paul van Kemenade (saxophone) will play at The Vortex, London, on 9th of December, 8:30 pm. More information: vortexjazz.co.uk
Listen to:
further information: www.intaktrec.ch
press photos: http://www.intaktrec.ch/photogallery.htm
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