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Mike McGinnis

Clarinetist/Saxophonist/Composer Mike McGinnis has worked with some of today’s most innovative and influential artists including Anthony Braxton’s Trillium E Orchestra, Steve Coleman's Aquarius Ingress (Ravi Coltrane, Tony Malaby, Miguel Zenon and Chris Speed), the Lonnie Plaxico Group, Stew & Heidi (of Passing Strange/the Negro Problem), Fela! On Broadway (saxophone soloist), Art Lande, Yo La Tengo, the Ohad Talmor/Steve Swallow Sextet, Alice Coltrane, sculptor Martin Kersels (Whitney Biennial 2009) and the Losers Lounge among others. He has released several recordings as a leader and/or co-leader with the four bags, OK|OK, DDYGG and Between Green.

Outing

By Mike McGinnis

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rollover; Incantation; Transformations; A Nice Boy/Discover Laughing; Stand In The River; Roundtable; The Gospel Of Bone Drye; Shiny Stockings.

Mike McGinnis - Elias Bailey - Vinnie Sperazza: Time Is Thicker

by Angelo Leonardi
September 29, 2021

Conclusa la notevole parentesi con Art Lande e Steve Swallow per l'etichetta Sunnyside (Recurring Dream del 2017 e Singular Awakening del 2018), Mike McGinnis conferma la formula del trio con due nuovi partner, privilegiando il clarinetto rispetto al sax soprano. Dopo ricercati lavori con medie formazioni dove ha espresso originalità come compositore e arrangiatore, McGinnis evidenzia ...

Time Is Thicker

By Mike McGinnis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Get In The Car; Welcome Home; Tin Tin Deo; Low Bow Prelude; The Great Expanse; Abnegation; Bow Leggend Releve; On A Clear Day You Can See Forever; Just One of Those Things.

Chad Taylor, Nduduzo Makhathini, Aka Moon, Matt Wilson and Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 19, 2020

Second part of this week's exploration of new and upcoming releases [for the first part ]. Here we focus on the new works of drummers Chad Taylor, with his trio and in the duo with James Brandon Lewis and Matt Wilson, the global jazz of the cult band Aka Moon and South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini... ...

Singular Awakening

By Mike McGinnis

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Here Comes Everybody; Shining Lights; Insist on Something Sometimes; A First Memory; Mini's Can Do Club; PolterGinnis; O'Flaherty Decides to Play Jazz; Beau Nivea; Shockinawe; Slow Dance on a Whisper; For Elise; Bite Your Grandmother.

Mike McGinnis: Singular Awakening

by Maurizio Zerbo
April 10, 2019

Ecco un musicista statunitense da noi poco noto, benché meritevole di maggior attenzione presso la stampa ed il pubblico italiani. Mike McGinnis, quarantacinquenne multistrumentista di Sainford è il protagonista di un eccellente CD, contrassegnato dalla felice empatia con i celebri Steve Swallow ed Art Lande. Due generazioni a confronto per esplorare in profondità le ...

Le "middle bands" di Mike McGinnis

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 23, 2013

Quarant'anni giusti giusti, nativo del Maine, il clarinettista e compositore Mike McGinnis sforna a un paio di mesi l'uno dall'altro due album che, incisi tra il febbraio e il giugno 2012, ce ne consegnano un'immagine per un verso dicotomica, per un altro sostanzialmente conseguente. Vi si alternano infatti due differenti middle bands, il che da un ...

Matt Holman's Diversion Ensemble: When Flooded

by Dan Bilawsky
March 24, 2013

Brooklyn-based trumpeter Matt Holman has been putting his horn to good use as a sideman with A-listers, like pianist Fred Hersch and vocalist Kate McGarry, and up-and-coming large ensembles, like Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the Asuka Kakitani Jazz Orchestra, but he's finally stepping up to the plate as a leader. When Flooded is Holman's ...

Drew Paralic: Wintertime Tunes Of Drew Paralic

by Dan Bilawsky
December 14, 2012

While the cold chill of winter seems to jump out of the cover of composer/arranger Drew Paralic's EP-length ode to the snowy season, the music contained within isn't really icy fare. Paralic puts together a brief set of wintry originals that are as inviting as a fire place on a late December evening. ...