Results for "OK Nok...Kongo"

OK Nok...Kongo

Moonstone Journey

By OK Nok...Kongo

Label: Dacapo Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Moonstone Journey; Finding the Path; The Frog and the Snake; A Chaos With Some Kind of Order; Spirituals of Ruby; Climbing the Mountain; Hypothesis; At the Lotus Lake; Holy Coordinator; Monk Me. (Total Playing Time 52:35).

OK Nok...Kongo: Moonstone Journey

by David Adler
November 1, 1999

On Moonstone Journey, the fine Danish avant-gardists of OK Nok...Kongo play compositions by an American expatriate and Coltrane/Shepp alum, saxophonist John Tchicai. The Danish expression “OK Nok" roughly translates to “A-OK," and “Kongo" is the African nation from which Tchicai’s father hailed. Joined by Tchicai himself, the group sets out to explore the elliptic space between ...

OK Nok...Kongo: Moonstone Journey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 1, 1999

The Calm Center. Saxophone...How Close to Wynton, err...Ellington. In 1965, Down Beat magazine described John Tchicai as, “A Calm Voice of the Avant-Garde”. The mid ‘60s was the heyday of Free Jazz with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Archie Schepp, and the list goes on. Not unlike the Second Viennese School and their 12-tone system, ...