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Stefano Bollani: The Fearless Italian Pianist Who Turned Jazz into Pure Imagination
Some musicians spend their entire careers perfecting a single style. Others spend a lifetime ignoring stylistic boundaries altogether. Stefano Bollani belongs unmistakably to the second group. To describe him simply as a jazz pianist is accurate—but incomplete. He is also a classical musician. A composer. A gifted improviser. A broadcaster. A writer. A performer whose…
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Sadao Watanabe: The Saxophonist Who Made Japanese Jazz International
From Postwar Japan to a Wider Musical World Before Japanese Jazz Became International Sadao Watanabe’s career is sometimes summarized through a series of geographical connections: Japan, the United States and Brazil. The outline is accurate, but it can make his development sound simpler than it was, as though three musical cultures were placed beside one…
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The Circling Sun: The New Zealand Collective Bringing Spiritual Jazz Into the 21st Century
Every generation of jazz produces artists who look backward in order to move forward. They do not imitate the past. They converse with it. The greatest among them understand that jazz has never been a museum piece. It is a living language—one that grows richer every time a new voice enters the conversation. In recent…