Oggi mi piace riportare su NNC la storia di due personaggi straordinari venuti dalla grande e misteriosa India per apportare una ventata di Innovazione nella musica jazz. Per essersi affermati negli USA, devono essere davvero bravi.
(fonte: IlSole24Ore del 10 marzo 2011)
Ci sono due solisti di quarant'anni, americani ma figli entrambi di genitori provenienti dall'India, che suonano oggi il possibile jazz del futuro, per chi ancora crede che il jazz abbia un futuro. Sono Vijay Iyer , pianista, e Rudresh Mahanthappa , alto saxophonist, who often played together in various groups, have recently had the great idea to form a duo and in recent days have given concerts in Italy much applauded in Cremona, Pavia and Bolzano. The best known (so far) is Iyer, born in 1971 in Rochester in upstate New York.
It is a singular character, of great culture, with a degree in physics and musicologist, although, as a pianist, almost self-taught, a rarity at this stage, where jazz in the self-made men are not nearly as . It has attracted international attention after a fruitful partnership with the saxophonist Steve Coleman and the director and after collaboration with Butch Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis and 13 discs to his name, all of remarkable ...
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A video to get an idea
Perhaps, then, we ask Giovanni Di Marco ( the expert on music of the town of Notasulga ) What do you think ...
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