Il Concerto del Mattino di Rai Radio3 trasmette domani, poco dopo mezzogiorno, uno dei lavori più recenti di Mike e Kate Westbrook, The Serpent Hit, registrato dalla BBC la sera della sua prima esecuzione al Kings Place londinese il 2 aprile dello scorso anno. E sempre domani, alle 21.00, il Cartellone di Rai Radio3 propone in diretta il concerto di Carla Bley con Steve Swallow e Andy Sheppard e la big band ospite del Torino Jazz Festival.
http://tinyurl.com/c7c9kvb
http://tinyurl.com/cpbxqgc
Della magnifica sede di Hannah's at Seale-Hayne presso Newton Abbot, nel Devon, hanno fatto da tempo quasi una loro seconda casa dove tenere incontri, seminari, prove, concerti e allestimenti musicali di varia natura: questo fine settimana Kate e Mike Westbrook convocano il pubblico al cospetto della ritrovata Big Band - venti elementi - per due speciali appuntamenti nel segno di Duke Ellington: Two For The Duke!
“Being asked to prepare an Ellington tribute must have been manna from heaven for Westbrook. The result is something totally fresh and vital that brings alive Duke's memory rather than consigns it to a museum. This is music of consummate elegance that recalls the rich harmonies and unusual tones of Harlem Airshaft, Creole Love Call and even more so Billy Strayhorn's work for Duke's orchestra.” (Duncan Heining, Jazzwise).
www.westbrookjazz.co.uk
www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/mikewestbrook/bigband/duke.shtml
www.discoverhannahs.org/News/Events.cfm
John Fordham traccia un ritratto di Tony Marsh per il quotidiano britannico The Guardian, mentre dalle pagine dello Smith's Academy Informer Mike Westbrook ne ricorda l'amicizia e la vicinanza negli anni della Brass Band e dell'Orchestra, proponendo un filmato di On Duke's Birthday - l'estratto è dal concerto di debutto ad Amiens, il 12 maggio 1984 - dove oltre al batterista è in evidenza anche il trombonista Danilo Terenzi, morto nel 1995. "In 1982 Tony joined the Brass Band and on our many travels across Europe, through France, Italy and elsewhere, Danilo was often with us.This group was the nucleus of the band that premiered On Duke’s Birthday at Amiens in May 1984. Words can’t express the depth of such friendships and musical relationships, but the music says it all. Thankfully, the artistry and love in that remarkable band is captured on the live recording of the very first performance. A case of what Duke describes as ‘Doing the right thing, with the right people, in the right place at the right time’. Tony was at the heart of so much of our work. His contribution to London Bridge was immense. Whether in an orchestral setting, or in an improvising group like Full Monte, to say nothing of his innumerable collaborations on the London scene, Tony always had his own angle, a fresh and original approach. His honesty and commitment were total. Playing with him was a joy. We miss him."
Westbrook ricorda anche un altro musicista scomparso di recente, il pianista Pete Saberton, impegnato con l'Orchestra nelle registrazioni di The Orchestra of Smith’s Academy e in molti concerti degli anni novanta.
Peter Urpeth presenta il suo lavoro biografico su Evan Parker, in uscita a breve con il titolo The Intensity of Purpose: "The aim of this book, as Evan Parker approaches his 70th birthday, is to not only record the fascinating life and musical history of the saxophonist – and to provide an accessible point of entry to the history of free jazz and improvised music in the UK and beyond – but to establish Evan Parker’s place at the very forefront of the radical and alternative new art that flourished in the UK and Europe in the 60s and beyond, and in the context of Parker’s life, connections and influences, the contemporary world of culture and social and political events."
Alle spese di realizzazione del libro si può concorrere tramite Unbound.
http://www.unbound.co.uk/books/the-intensity-of-purpose
http://www.unbound.co.uk/books/the-intensity-of-purpose/excerpt
Risuonano stasera al Vortex Jazz Club a Londra le note sublimi di From Granite to Wind. E' di scena l'ottetto di Keith Tippett: http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/this-months-programme.html
Keith Tippett has been one of the UK's most inventive solo improvisers and composers since the 1970s, and this continuous-performance suite, From Granite to Wind, is a fine representation of those skills. It's a framework for the impressionistic poetry of his vocalist wife, Julie Tippetts, and the sax-playing of four fine soloists including long-time associate Paul Dunmall. Other members of the Octet are all west country sax players largely unknown to London audiences, including Ben Waghorn (tenor) and Kevin Figes alongside James Gardiner-Bateman (altos). The Rolls Royce rhythm section comprises Peter Fairclough (drums/perc) and Thad Kelly (bass).
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/this-months-programme.html
Per giungere in tempo al completamento del loro film Romantic Warriors II-About Rock in Opposition - in proiezione al RIO France Event di Cap'Découverte il prossimo settembre - gli autori e produttori Adele Schmidt e Jose Zegarra Holder, titolari di Zeitgeist Media, lanciano una campagna di finanziamento attraverso IndieGoGo aperta al contributo di sostenitori e fan: "Our team has been working on this project for over two years, and it's been a labor of love. Until now, we've been able to fund the entire cost of production on our own, and the good news is that the whole movie has already been shot and we have a rough cut. But as we transition into the completion phase, we need your help to get us over the finish line. You can help in a number of ways. First and foremost, by donating to this IndieGoGo campaign. Your contribution will make the film's completion possible. Your support will go directly toward: paying our assistant editors, translations, transcriptions, subtitling, graphics, licensing fees, sound mixing, mastering. color/sound correction and other post-production costs. We hope you will join us to bring the story of these outstanding musicians to the outside world, and help raise awareness for their music. It’s a powerful story and we're grateful for the opportunity to tell it. Thank you so much for joining in and becoming a part of this!"
http://www.indiegogo.com/RomanticWarriors?a=295812
http://www.progdocs.com/RW_Vol._2.html
Planet Gong annuncia la pubblicazione da parte della spagnola Wah Wah Records Supersonic Sounds di alcune rare registrazioni collegate al periodo del sessantotto parigino di Daevid Allen e Gilli Smyth: Dreaming The Magic of Your Maya, con Loren Standlee e Ziska Baum (qui 'Princess Flower and the Moon Rays'), appena prima della nascita dei Gong.
Recorded in 1968 and issued as a very limited private pressing (less than 100 copies meant you didn't have to pay 'stamp duty' on the pressing) this psychedelic raga freak-out is the brainchild of multi disciplinary artist Loren Standlee plus his partner Ziska with the cooperation of Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth in what was the first incarnation of Gong. Loren and Ziska had been involved with the crowd of avantgardist free thinkers that settled in Formentera in the sixties, and back home in N.Y. they had also been connected to experimentalists such as Angus Maclise, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Pandit Pran Nath, and others.
www.planetgong.co.uk/bazaar/vinyl/dreaming_12.shtml
www.wah-wahsupersonic.com
Nel florilegio di iniziative collegate al Records Store Day - quest'anno alla sua quinta edizione - c'è anche la pubblicazione, in vinile e in tiratura ovviamente limitata, di un doppio singolo di Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band relativo all'epoca delle 'leggendarie' sedute di registrazione per la A&M Records nel 1966, già oggetto di attenzione in precedenti edizioni. A questa provvede oggi Sundazed, recuperando i master mono originali: Diddy Wah Diddy, Who Do You Think You’re Fooling, Moonchild e Frying Pan.
Upon signing with A&M Records, Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band debuted loudly, recording two singles in 1966, cementing their image as Sunset Strip “blues fiends” and paving the way for what was to become one of the most original careers in rock history. The band’s cover of Bo Diddley’s “Diddy Wah Diddy” garnered significant regional attention and considerable radio play courtesy of the Captain’s unreal howl & Jerry Handley’s deep, thundering bass sound, while the driving delta tributes “Who Do You Think You’re Fooling” and “Frying Pan” sharply displayed the Captain’s early songwriting prowess. While the Magic Band’s musical course were soon to evolve in drastic & original ways, it’s these early sides that depict a developed blues foundation and a signature tightness that was threaded through all Magic Bands to come. Sundazed now proudly presents these legendary recordings in double 7” 45rpm gatefold edition, all sides cut from the original A&M mono masters.
http://www.sundazed.com/shop/rsd2012.php
http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/albums/official/anm.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day
E' ormai definito il programma del Rock in Opposition-France Event 2012, in calendario dal 21 al 23 settembre nella tradizionale sede di Cap'Découverte, Le Garric, Carmaux (Francia). Ai concerti dei primi due giorni - Kafka / Benjamin De La Fuente, One Shot, Caravan, Spoke Orkestra, We Insist!, Thinking Plague, Strange Enquête e Magma - si aggiungono il terzo giorno un seminario di Christian Vander aperto al pubblico, un concerto di Erik Baron, un pranzo sociale e la proiezione del film Romantic Warriors II di Adele Schmidt e Jose Zegarra Holder, coprodotto da Zeitgeist Media e Chris Cutler, sulle vicende storiche e l'eredità del R.I.O. in Europa.
Informazioni e dettagli organizzativi si trovano al sito del festival assieme ad approfondimenti e schede di presentazione dei musicisti invitati; per gli statunitensi Thinking Plague è curiosamente proposto un filmato tratto dall'esibizione a Roccamorice (Pe) nell'estate 2000 - quando la formazione era per metà diversa da quella attuale - in occasione del loro mini-tour di debutto in Italia promosso dal Circ.a.
http://www.rocktime.org/rio
http://www.progdocs.com/Home.html
http://tinyurl.com/d7cshcy
ReR annuncia l'apertura a breve di un sito web aggiuntivo e complementare a quello esistente, tramite cui consultare e ascoltare l'intero catalogo dell'etichetta, inclusi gli antichi album in vinile mai ripubblicati in cd e altri materiali nuovi o inediti via via disponibili soltanto in download. Molte le novità in distribuzione e in sottoscrizione nell'aggiornamento di aprile 2012: tra queste Peter Cusack, Sounds from Dangerous Places; Biota, Cape Flyaway; Chris Cutler & Steve MacLean, The Year of the Dragon e uno speciale cofanetto multimediale per il sessantesimo compleanno di Jon Rose, Rosin.
We are launching a new site where you can listen to, and download, the entire ReR catalogue - both individual tracks and complete CDs - in two formats: the usual reduced quality mp3s and as lossless FLAC files, along with all the accompanying artwork. Later in the year the download site will also include tracks from all the old ReR vinyl releases, as well as new and unreleased recordings that will be available as downloads only. But to be clear, ReR remains committed to releasing CDs and sets in object form for as long as people want them; it’s our preferred medium by a million miles. We are hoping to launch the new site before the summer, so any suggestions and comments will be much appreciated. Thanks.
http://tinyurl.com/9d743
ReR Megacorp
79 Beulah Rd, Thornton Heath
Surrey CR78JG, UK
phone 0208 771 1063, fax 0208 771 3138
www.rermegacorp.com
rermegacorp@dial.pipex.com
Chi ha collezionato i cinque volumi della serie Improvisation with Myself di Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz) usciti tra il 2008 e il 2010 per la francese InPolySons può ora raccoglierli tutti in una confezione su misura, richiedendola tramite il sito dell'etichetta: http://inpolysons.free.fr/en/iwm-box.html
Le label In Poly Sons est depuis 1989 un pourvoyeur patenté de molécules discographiques présentant quelques atomes crochus avec Robert Wyatt, The Residents et un esprit d'autodérision oulipien. L'exercice de style est souvent prétexte à des créations musicales très travaillées mais ne se prenant jamais au sérieux. Faisant honneur à ses préceptes, In Poly Sons démarre la nouvelle collection Improvisation With Myself (IWM) qui a pour visée déclarée "une conception originale de l'improvisation tonale et ludique, une approche spontanée et rapide du re-recording". Les volumes d'IWM seront, tout comme ce premier opus, publiés sous la forme d'un CD glissé dans une pochette cartonnée en noir et blanc (un concept alliant l'économique à l'écologique).
http://inpolysons.free.fr/en/iwm-box.html
http://klimperei.free.fr/cds/iwm1-5.html
InPolySons
34 rue de Chatillon
35000 Rennes, France
inpolysons@free.fr
Esce il mese prossimo, in occasione dell'ottantesimo compleanno di Pauline Oliveros, un eccezionale box di dodici cd che documenta il suo lavoro con nastri e musica elettronica negli anni sessanta: Reverberations-Tape & Electronic Music. Lo produce l'etichetta Important Records, annunciandolo con un filmato su YouTube.
Pauline Oliveros, composer, performer and humanitarian is an important pioneer in American Music. Acclaimed internationally, for four decades she has explored sound -- forging new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly effects those who experience it and eludes many who try to write about it. This 12 disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece for tape made in 1961. The majority of these pieces have never before been released. Organized chronologically by studio, this set not only documents Pauline's earliest electronic music but it also functions as a crucial document of early electronic music. Extensive liner notes including essays from Pauline Oliveros, Alex Chechile, Ramon Sender, David Bernstein and Corey Arcangel. This box set is being released in conjunction with Pauline Oliveros' 80th birthday celebrations.
http://www.paulineoliveros.us
http://importantrecords.com
http://tinyurl.com/chxtw6q
Si può rivedere, in qualità piuttosto buona, il concerto che Van Dyke Parks ha tenuto al John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts di Washington pochi giorni fa, il 9 aprile, evento trasmesso in diretta sul web e ora conservato in http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4993. Con il pianista e cantante, in splendida forma alla vigilia dei settant'anni, c'erano Jim Cooper (basso) e Don Heffington (batteria). In scaletta molti suoi classici e brani tra i più amati: Jump!, Opportunity for Two, Come Along, Orange Crate Art, Delta Queen Waltz, Danza, FDR in Trinidad, Cowboy, Wings of a Dove e Sail Away. Van Dyke Parks sarà presto anche in Italia, con due concerti il 19 giugno a Milano e il 20 a Roma.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4993
Si tiene stasera l'atteso incontro con Robert Wyatt presso il londinese Cafe Oto, una conversazione animata dagli ascolti proposti da Wyatt e dalle domande del giornalista Tony Herrington - e del pubblico - idealmente a ripresa e completamento di quella inizata l'anno scorso a Whitstable in occasione della prima edizione del festival Off the Page.
Dice il comunicato stampa: "Last February in Whitstable, for the opening event of the inaugural Off The Page festival, Robert Wyatt made a rare on-stage appearance to discuss some of his favourite music by other artists, including Cecil Taylor, The Platters and Mutt Carey. For April’s edition of The Wire Salon, the great singer-songwriter and National Living Treasure will take to the Cafe Oto stage for a second discussion, but this time he will be playing back and talking about selected tracks from his own back catalogue, a unique body of work that includes the first wave English psychedelia of Soft Machine, and a series of solo recordings which combine radical political sentiments with an aesthetic sensibility informed by Vaudeville, 60s pop, modern jazz, Cuban music and more. Over the years, a diverse cast of musicians has been drawn into Wyatt’s elliptical orbit, including Brian Eno, Evan Parker, Paul Weller, Carla Bley, Ivor Cutler, Fred Frith, Mongezi Feza, Annie Whitehead, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and David Gilmour, Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Björk, as well as his wife, the painter and singer Alfreda Benge, testifying to both his artistic credibility and his music's universal appeal. This event will provide a one-time opportunity to discover the stories, circumstances and concepts behind some of the most affecting and enduring experimental pop of the last 40 years – direct from the musician responsible. The discussion will be chaired by The Wire’s Tony Herrington, who performed the same function at Off The Page, and will include an audience Q&A section."
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/wire-salon-an-audience-with-robert-wyatt.shtm
http://vimeo.com/23789220
Nuovo lutto per il jazz britannico per la scomparsa del batterista Tony Marsh, colpito da malattia nel pieno di un periodo assai ricco di concerti e iniziative. Aveva suonato poche sere fa a Londra al Cafe Oto in trio con Roscoe Mitchell e John Edwards, mentre tra pochi giorni avrebbe partecipato in duo con Mark Sanders alla nuova edizione del festival londinese Freedom of a City. I primi commenti alla notizia appaiono oggi alle pagine di London Jazz, mentre su YouTube Helen Petts propone una sua selezione di documenti video.
Tony Marsh first came to prominence in the Seventies with the jazz-rock group Major Surgery. Developing its compositions from group improvisations, it became a major innovator in this area of jazz. The break up of Major Surgery in 1979 saw Tony teaching percussion and playing cabaret gigs in Londons Soho. The Eighties were a productive period, providing many opportunities for recording and tours with Mike Osborne, John Surman, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Barry Guy, Howard Riley, Elton Dean, Yves Robert and Didier Levallet. A trio with Simon Picard and Paul Rogers grew into the Mingus inspired band 7RPM. Tony joined the Mike Westbrook Brass Band in 1982, recording On Duke's Birthday (featuring Dominique Pifarely) in 1983 and combining with Le Sinfonietta de Picardie in 1988 to record London Bridge is Broken Down. A long association with Harry Beckett in his Quartet and Flugelhorn Band has produced several records and a trio CD with Didier Levallet. Another long term association is with the improvising quartet Full Monte, with Chris Biscoe (saxes), Brian Godding (guitar and guitar synth) and Marcio Mattos (bass), with whom he has toured extensively and released two CDs.
http://londonjazz.blogspot.it/2012/04/rip-tony-marsh.html
http://www.visionlogic.demon.co.uk/biog1_TM.htm
http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2012/03/roscoe-mitchell-tony-marsh-and-john-edwards-at-cafe-oto
http://www.freedomofthecity.org/marsh-sanders.html
http://tinyurl.com/d7zh9z8
Shelley Hirsch ha incontrato David Garland per illustrare temi e contenuti del suo splendido album Where Were You Then?, realizzato assieme a Simon Ho e pubblicato di recente dall'etichetta Tzadik. La puntata di Spinning on Air è quella del 25 marzo 2012, alla vigilia di due concerti di presentazione al newyorkese Roulette, ed è archiviata in http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/2012/mar/25
Vocalist/composer Shelley Hirsch has been opening ears in the downtown New York scene for decades. As an improviser she’s brought her lightning reflexes, wild imagination, and vocal virtuosity to projects with John Zorn, Christian Marclay, and many others. Hirsch has become increasingly interested in exploring a unique, musical approach to autobiographical storytelling. Her new recording, created in collaboration with Swiss composer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Ho, is Where Were You Then?; in it, Hirsch tells stories about online dating, living in California, loft-squatting in Amsterdam, hitchhiking through Germany, experiencing 9/11 in New York City, and her mother's death. Shelley Hirsch joins David Garland to talk about and play selections from Where Were You Then?
Tutto incentrato su Hugh Hopper il nuovo episodio di Canterbury Soundwaves, il diciottesimo. Così lo presenta il curatore, Matthew Watkins: "This time it's a three-hour tribute to bass legend Hugh Hopper (1945-2009), from teenage home recordings via the Daevid Allen Trio and Wilde Flowers to Soft Machine, Isotope, Gilgamesh, Soft Heap, Soft Head and beyond. Featuring Hopper classics and obscurities, as well as something from one of his favourite albums, covers of his compositions (even a hiphop beat!), numerous collaborations, an exploration of his involvement in the genesis of tape looping in the early 60's, interview clips, a rare chance to hear Hugh singing (!) and the current sounds being made with his famous Fender Jazz bass (still resident in the Canterbury area)".
http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com
Radiotre Suite Jazz presenta domani sera il progetto di Elliott Sharp dedicato a Willie Dixon, Electric Willie, in un concerto tenuto al festival di Saalfelden (Austria) l'agosto scorso. Con Sharp c'erano Eric Mingus, Tracie Morris, Melvin Gibbs, Don McKenzie e per l'occasione anche Henry Kaiser. Del concerto esiste una ripresa video pubblicata pressoché integralmente su YouTube. Il programma offre inoltre una registrazione del Wayne Horvitz New Quartet - Horvitz, Briggan Krauss, Tony Malaby e Ches Smith - effettuata al club newyorkese Poisson Rouge lo scorso settembre.
Radiotre Suite Jazz, martedì 3 aprile 2012, ore 20.30.
Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane has dedicated this project entirely to the blues of Willie Dixon. But it’s more than an homage: Sharp and his musicians incessantly transcend the boundaries of the genre with jazz-influenced improvisations. Terraplane shows how you can play with standard formulas, deconstruct them, and charge them with a finesse and refinement that lends new vitality to a seemingly historic (and hence perpetually valid) form. It’s a kind of latter day industrial blues, urban, of course, and full of unexpected breaks. If you think everything has already been said in this genre, enjoy the chance to be proven wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/c8oz5kj
http://www.jazzsaalfelden.com/index.php?id=156&L=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdxVBX9kFJ8
http://www.repple.se/datacide/road11.html
Dopo l'attenzione rivolta alla svizzera Intakt, al club newyorkese The Stone è ora il turno dell'etichetta fondata da Andrea Centazzo: ventiquattro concerti a partire da oggi, fino al 14 aprile 2012, festeggiano il trentacinquesimo anniversario della Ictus Records. "Created in 1976, Ictus has been one of the first and most celebrated labels completely dedicated to improvised music, new jazz and contemporary classic music. Founded by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli became known as “the creative label for creative music”. Closed down in 1984, Ictus was reborn in 2005 in Long Beach CA and immediately regained attention from audiences and critics for its catalog featuring new productions and re-releases of the old recordings. A rich archive dating 1976-1990 is a treasure still to be explored. With a series of concerts celebrating its 35th anniversary, Ictus is bringing to New York, for the first time ever, some of the best seminal Italian improvisers already part of the Ictus catalogue plus new talents, presenting exciting combinations with some of the top US performers. Tributes to improvisation masters Steve Lacy and Derek Bailey plus a tribute to the underappreciated great composer Colin McPhee will complete the 12 nights / 24 concerts celebration. Tickets for all concerts include a free unreleased Ictus cd compilation, while supply lasts". Programma completo e informazioni sono in http://www.ictusrecordsnights.com/
