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All About Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell is the ideal musician of the postmodern age – the age of “complexity.” So ideal, in fact, that he remains unique. It is...

Jazz Producers / Michel Dorbon – Pascal Rozat – Stéphane Berland – Philippe Ghielmetti – Bertrand Gastaut

Many independent French labels have contributed significantly to the jazz scene in recent decades by releasing high-quality records: here is the beginning of a small journey (which will continue) through the background of production from across the border.

Marisa Monte: Portas

The great Brazilian singer is always an authentic explorer: in love with the past, but projecting into the future. On the occasion of her return to Italy, where she lived a few years ago, we asked her to tell us her story.

John Cage: Inhabiting Music and Image

The death of Roberto Masotti unfortunately interrupted work on this article, which was dedicated to his last work for Seipersei, John Cage: In A Landscape. The "Cage question", which had been settled in an early draft of the article, could no longer face a final reflection with him.
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Timeless seductions: Sposin’ by Helen Merrill

Among the many forgotten records of the great singer, there are authentic masterpieces waiting to be finally consecrated: here is one of them

Soul Jazz!

Starting with our CD dedicated to one of the inventors of soul jazz, Bobby Timmons, we trace the history of this singular current that has dominated African-American music for at least a decade.

Nancy Wilson: Sound and Style

For African-American audiences, the magnificent voice from Ohio has long been the quintessential jazz singer, the only one who has managed to maintain a constant popularity and her own diva status through the changing musical scenes.

John Lurie & Lounge Lizards

A violent, brutal immersion in the New York of the very early 1980s, no longer even decadent, just rotten: a poisoned Apple.
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The New Definitive Tristano

The release of a six-CD box set of almost entirely unreleased material scattered over a span of twenty-five years makes it possible to re-examine "the Tristano case" in much greater depth and perhaps, for good measure, definitively.

The Jazz of Kenny Wheeler

An extensive dossier dedicated to the rich oeuvre of the Canadian trumpeter, composer and arranger, a musician of great originality who has always managed to maintain a very strong individuality under all circumstances.

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