Down Beat si occupa sempre più spesso dei musicisti italiani, il più delle volte per la recensione di album, ma, e oramai è una abitudine consolidata, vengono commentati anche festival italiani e/o partecipazioni ad importanti eventi.Recentemente il magazine americano ha parlato di Paolo Fresu e di Enrico Rava. Ecco gli incipt degli articoli, rimandando gli interessati ai link per la lettura completa.Once upon a time in Sardinia, a young man with a horn had a vision: Take your music to the world, but also invite the world to experience music in your homeland. For half his life, trumpeter Paolo Fresu has ingeniously cultivated that concept into a vivid, enduring reality: This year, his Time In Jazz Festival brought worldwide jazz to Sardinia—a Mediterranean epicenter for millennia—from Aug. 9–16. (Fred Bouchard)
http://downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=2513 Rava’s late-night/early morning set, with his project Tribe—featuring the powerhouse trombonist Gianluca Petrella—was something of a micro-festival in itself. The set nimbly incorporated romantic jazz bearings, segments of free improvisation, Italian folkloric sonorities, post-bop and the Ornette Coleman-esque jazz shapes of the brisk workout “Cornettology.” Rava’s Tribe delivered a musical suite that managed to be forward-leaning and backward-glancing, sentimental and rebellious, all joined in a coherent package. The primary key to the artistic coherence: Rava’s unique musical voice, assured while still evolving, solid and fluid. (Josef Woodard)
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