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Sam Newsome

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Samuel Augustus Newsome was born on April 28, 1965 in Salibury, MD. He is the youngest of three boys. He began playing music at 12 years old when his family relocated to Hampton, VA. By the time he was 15 years old he began playing professionally around town with local R & B bands along with his high school classmate bassist James Genus. It was during high school that he became serious about studying jazz and began taking lessons after school with saxophonist Steve Wilson. It was Steve who introduced him to recordings of jazz legends such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. In 1983, after graduating high school, Sam received the Kool Jazz Festival scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass

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Tubes

Label: Unbroken Sounds
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dust; Strangled Duck; Grizzly Bear; Four Portraits; Blue Monk; Tubes & Keys; Helicopter Exit.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Exotic Ivories: Hard Bop Piano and World Beat Rhythms

Read "Exotic Ivories: Hard Bop Piano and World Beat Rhythms" reviewed by AAJ Staff


This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on straight-ahead precepts have incorporated instruments and musical concepts from other cultures into their art. Some, like saxophonist Sam Newsome on last ...

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Article: Album Review

Sam Newsome: Tubes

Read "Tubes" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Tubes, a riotous investigation into the sonic by outlaw soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and provocateur bassist Max Johnson, burps to life with “Dust" and proceeds assuredly down its own peculiar byways and highways. It is a real treat. The track closes with Newsome's prepared horn pondering like a bluesman on his lone, lonely harp. It is ...

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Esoteria

Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – Grit 6:31 2 – Pushing 5:17 3 – Pulses 8:59 4 – Rise 10:53

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Just You Stand and Listen with Me

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Driva' Man; When Malindy Sings; Mendacity; Caged Bird; Straight Ahead; All Africa; Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace; Who Will Buy?; Tears for Johannesburg; Garvey's Ghost; Freedom Day.

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Media is the context for the exchange of content

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – The Rains 6:22 2 – So Many Thoughts 6:11 3 – Traffic 6:19 4 – Around People 3:38 5 – Space Elephants 4:51 6 – Lullaby 7:31

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flourish

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. 2-4-1 (3) 7:31 2. Waiting (5) 10:43 3. Tunneling (6) 10:00

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Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sounds from my Morning Window; The Enigma’s Melody; All the Things You Are; The Two Faces of Samuel Augustus; How Deep Is the Ocean; Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged; Bittersweet Euphoria Part 1; Bittersweet Euphoria Part 2; The Storm Before the Quiet; Take the A Train; Dancing Like No One’s Watching (But Everyone Is); Serenading Seismic Waves; Skyward Lullaby; Lost in Traslation; Solitude.

Article: Album Review

Sam Newsome, Jean-Michel Pilc: Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged

Read "Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Talentuosissimi strumentisti ed eccellenti improvvisatori, Sam Newsome e Jean-Michel Pil tornano a registrare assieme a sei anni di distanza dal loro Magic Circle. E lo fanno con lo stesso spirito, cioè andando in studio senza scalette o programmi predefiniti, fidandosi dell'intesa consolidata e delle comuni preferenze, per snocciolare una serie di improvvisazioni alternate a storici standard, ...


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