Music Review | Christian Scott
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- Music Review | Christian Scott
- A moment with .. Anat Cohen clarinetist
- Tango with a splash of jazz
Music Review | Christian Scott
New York Times – Oct 24, 2007
Scott was signed to Concord Records which has just released his second album “Anthem. ” His first one “Rewind That” was nominated for a Grammy Award last year. But even in a jazz club with Marcus Gilmore whacking his two snare drums at full strength the music felt thin. Scott has a great youthful flow something that’s always prized in jazz. But in a music of fewer chord changes and higher volume his nuances can get lost; the logic of his playing and the entwined sound of his lines with the band’s saxophonist Louis Fouché seemed secondary to the main point of the project which was how contemporary it all sounded. There are excellent musicians in this band as many know from hearing them in other situations.
A moment with .. Anat Cohen clarinetist
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 24, 2007
Cohen arrives in Seattle after a performance Wednesday night at New York’s Birdland with David stwald’s Gully Low Jazz Band also known as the Louis Armstrong Centennial Band. Cohen has won praise for her explorations of Afro-Cuban styles Argentinian tango Brazilian choro classical and jazz music. Calling from rehearsals in New York Cohen talked about her fast-rising career:n whether the clarinet is making a comeback in jazz and popular music:I would like to think it’s making a comeback because I’m playing it (laughs). I do think that the world in general is opening up to different kinds of music and I feel that jazz is not necessarily music from the ’40s ’50s or ’60s. The current jazz is so wide that a lot of world music is part of the definition of jazz and a lot of folkloric music has entered the jazz field — and with that all kinds of instruments that weren’t as common like the accordion and clarinet. n bringing her own sounds and sensibilities to the clarinet.
Tango with a splash of jazz
Prague Post – Oct 24, 2007
Both men’s separate projects provided inspiration for the current one. Burton has characterized it as among the most important recordings of his career saying this about the collaboration: “Teaming up with Galliano is absolutely a natural thing for me to do. I have a long history of playing tango music and I have long admired Richard’s many recordings of both Piazzolla’s music and his own. Combining jazz with tango is something I love to experiment with …. This will be some of the most interesting music of our careers. ”As for Galliano this is what he had to say about his first meeting with Burton: “I knew Gary Burton’s work with Ástor Piazzolla.