Sono ora note ed entrambe confermate le date a Roma e Bologna degli imminenti concerti di Mike e Kate Westbrook, con Pete Whyman e Chris Biscoe, per la presentazione di Art Wolf in una edizione in italiano finora inedita.
http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk
In dettaglio:
ART WOLF
Kate Westbrook - voce, corno tenore
Mike Westbrook - pianoforte, tuba
Chris Biscoe - sassofoni
Pete Whyman - sassofoni
16 marzo 2006
LA PALMA CLUB, Via G. MIRRI 35,
I-00159 ROMA (PORTONACCIO)
www.lapalmaclub.it
17 marzo 2006
Cassero Jazz Festival
Castel San Pietro Terme (BO), Albergo delle Terme, ore 21:15
http://www.crossroads-it.org/eventi.htm
Sin dagli anni Sessanta, Mike Westbrook è una delle personalità di maggior spicco del British Jazz, autorevole compositore, arrangiatore, bandleader e pianista. A lui si devono alcune delle pagine orchestrali più belle e intense del jazz europeo (da Metropolis a Citadel/Room 315, a The Cortége), ma nell’arco della sua carriera Westbrook si è anche espresso compiutamente alla testa di organici di dimensioni più ridotte, tra cui una Brass Band artefice di una sorta di jazz-cabaret. Assieme alla moglie Kate, cantante, autrice e pittrice, ha esplorato a fondo i legami fra musica, poesia e letteratura, facendo proprie liriche di Rimbaud, Lorca, Hesse, William Blake e altri autori. Il progetto Art Wolf è ispirato all’opera dell’artista svizzero Caspar Wolf (1735-1783), i cui paesaggi alpini sono riprodotti nel libretto allegato all’album omonimo, edito dall’etichetta elvetica Altrisuoni. Art Wolf è, al pari di numerosi altri lavori portati a felice compimento da Mike Westbrook, un eccellente esempio di incontro fra classicità e modernità, fra tradizione e sperimentazione.
With ART WOLF the Westbrooks unleash a radical new quartet, and a new album on the Swiss label altrisuoni.
The latest in a series of collaborations between composer Mike Westbrook and librettist Kate Westbrook, ART WOLF is inspired by the life and work of the Swiss Alpine painter Caspar Wolf (1735 - 1783) whose very signature was the image of the wolf. Through improvisation, text and formal composition, this powerful new work revolves around the role of the Artist, the "Art Wolf", and the nature of creativity.
ART WOLF was commissioned for the re-opening in October 2003, of the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau Switzerland, which houses a unique collection of Caspar Wolf's work.
With titles such as 'Oil Paint on Canvas', Kate's lyrics deal directly with the relationship of the artist to his craft. In 'Art Wolf' itself the artist is portrayed as a scavenger after Beauty and Truth. The music ranges from the formality of 'Sturdy Linen Canvas' to the total improvisation of 'In meinem Puppenhaus'; from the lyricism of 'Sketching Party' to the blues-charged expressionism of 'Whose Wolf Art Thou?'.
The latest in a series of collaborations between composer Mike Westbrook and librettist Kate Westbrook, ART WOLF is inspired by the life and work of the Swiss Alpine painter Caspar Wolf (1735 - 1783) whose very signature was the image of the wolf. Through improvisation, text and formal composition, this powerful new work revolves around the role of the Artist, the "Art Wolf", and the nature of creativity.
ART WOLF was commissioned for the re-opening in October 2003, of the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau Switzerland, which houses a unique collection of Caspar Wolf's work.
With titles such as 'Oil Paint on Canvas', Kate's lyrics deal directly with the relationship of the artist to his craft. In 'Art Wolf' itself the artist is portrayed as a scavenger after Beauty and Truth. The music ranges from the formality of 'Sturdy Linen Canvas' to the total improvisation of 'In meinem Puppenhaus'; from the lyricism of 'Sketching Party' to the blues-charged expressionism of 'Whose Wolf Art Thou?'.