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Gato Barbieri: 1964, waiting for Paradiso
Andrea Polinelli, saxophonist, composer, teacher, researcher and translator, publishes for Artdigiland a rich monograph dedicated to Gato Barbieri, the result of more than five years of work (Gato Barbieri. A biography from Italy, between jazz, pop and cinema).
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To the Max: the greatness of Massimo Urbani
A brief journey through the Roman musician's recorded albums, on the anniversary of his death, to try to focus on his greatness
John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy at the Village Gate
We delve into the extraordinary discovery of an unreleased 1961 recording featuring the quartet of Coltrane and Coltrane's quartet is joined by Dolphy: a collaboration that here reaches absolute heights.
The Casa Loma Orchestra: Jazz’s first cooperative
In the early 1930s, it was America's most popular orchestra, but today it is almost completely forgotten: we retrace the adventurous events of a band that defined an era, amidst mock-gothic castles and guns and clubs in the dressing rooms.
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Frank Zappa: Praise of a beautiful nothingness
From the depths of the archives finally comes a gem: the link between two Zappa myths like "Hot Rats" and "Chunga's Revenge"
The touch of Paul Buckmaster: Chitinous Ensemble and other stories
The curious artistic history of the Anglo-Neapolitan cellist and arranger who went from David Bowie to Miles Davis and from Elton John to Italian pop: why did everyone want him?
George Russell: 100th birthday of an innovator
In 1923, in Cincinnati, one of the great masters of jazz was born, among all the one who has collected the least in proportion to his merits. We retrace his fundamental theoretical activity and, in his own words, also a life that was certainly not easy but very productive
Tina Turner: The Blues Years
Over the course of her decades-long career, the celebrated singer, who has just passed away, was first the darling of the ghetto people, then the architect of the rapprochement between black and white popular aesthetics and the idol of the Woodstock generation, and finally a diva without adjectives. An almost unique and unrepeatable case.
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Sex, drugs and Luis Gasca: on the road between Texas and California
Between Mongo Santamaría and Santana, Janis Joplin and Joe Henderson, the Houston trumpeter lived the 1970s to the fullest, leaving some significant traces of himself
Miles Davis. She: “I love you, I love you, we have to do it…”
Miles Davis only watches the movie twice. He asks questions about the plot and the characters. Until, on a night off from concerts, he enters a studio on the Champs-Elysées.