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Il libro biografico di Martin Phillips su Keith Tippett ha visto ufficialmente la luce qualche giorno fa a Bristol nel corso di una calorosa cerimonia cui hanno preso parte alcuni tra i più cari amici e collaboratori del Nostro, con Julie Tippetts, Maggie Nicols e Larry Stabbins oltre naturalmente all'autore e agli editori di Jazz in Britain, John Thurlow e Pete Woodman. Dello speciale evento circolano sui social alcune immagini, mentre nel frattempo nuove recensioni del libro sono apparse su Jazzwise, The Wire e UK Vibe. Per ottenerne una copia ci si può rivolgere, oltre che direttamente alla casa madre, anche a Soundohm: Keith Tippett: Mujician – The Authorised Biography.
Scrive Steve Williams: "Martin Phillips’s authorised biography arrives from Jazz In Britain in a limited hardback edition of 1,000, with a double CD of previously unreleased recordings and a foreword by Richard Williams. The Williams foreword matters. He was there in print during the years the dossier above describes, and his judgment - that Tippett’s body of work matches “any British musician of his generation, its range surely without rival” - carries the weight of someone who has watched the whole arc unfold. Cecil Taylor, no easy man to impress, once called Tippett “one of the most interesting and original European pianists in jazz and free music.” That assessment, and Williams’s, are not the language of a hagiographic project. They are evaluations, and Phillips’s book earns them. Where the book is at its best is in the relationships. The chapter on the South African family - the Blue Notes circle, and above all, the long partnership with the drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo - is the one I keep returning to. Two musicians from opposite ends of the world and opposite sides of history, both shaped as children by chapel and church music, both committed to a form of free playing that never lost its rootedness in song: Phillips finds the human shape of that pairing, and the book is richer for it. The seventies, often the thin chapter in jazz biographies of this generation, are given their honest weight here too. Phillips does not pretend the decade was easy, or that the institutional warmth of the late sixties did not cool. He stays with the difficult years, and the book is stronger for the staying."
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