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Alex Wing

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Alex Wing is a guitarist, bassist, oud player and creative musician living in Chicago. In addition to leading his own groups (Alex Wing Group, People In Trouble) He has played with Nicole Mitchell, David Boykin, Shanta Nurullah, Magic Carpet, Wanees Zarour, Hanah Jon Taylor, Douglas Ewart, Avreeayl Ra, Issa Boulos, Jeff Marx, Saalik Ziyad, and many more. Wing is a co-founder of Sonic Healing Ministries (with David Boykin, Nicole Mitchell, Joel Wanek, Ben Boye, Jayve Montgomery and Dan Godston), which has run a free improvisation jam session on the south side of Chicago on and off for almost 20 years.

Album

Solar Vortex

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Solo Tutti 04:47 2. Park Slope, top floor 05:34 3. 1988 05:19 4. Hulusi 03:59 5. Guitar 04:43 6. Moog 02:01 7. Shra 05:41 8. Moog 2 01:41 9. Guitar 2 03:51 10. Park Slope, top floor 2 07:29 11. Solo Tutti 2 02:19 12. For Saalik 06:24

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

AACM: Together We Are Stronger

Read "AACM: Together We Are Stronger" reviewed by Chris May


With the passing in 2017 of the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and trumpeter Phil Cohran, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, formed in Chicago in 1965, lost the last two of the four musicians who organised its inaugural meeting. But with two succeeding generations of standard bearers stepping up to the plate, the AACM ...

Album

Vision Without Words

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. 1 06:26 2. 2 09:11 3. 3 05:12 4. 4 05:39 5. 5 05:31 6. 6 02:57 7. 7 05:46 8. 8 05:38 9. 9 06:35 10. 10 04:30 11. 11 05:32 12. 12 05:54

Article: Live Review

Saalfelden Jazz Festival, 2018

Read "Saalfelden Jazz Festival, 2018" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Jazz Festival SaalfeldenJazzfestival Saalfelden 2018 Saalfelden, Austria Casa del Jazz 23-26.08.2018 Il Jazzfestival di Saalfelden garantisce di solito un combinato efficace di musica avventurosa, inedita, ed esibizioni invece legate a nomi “sicuri," sempre di gran qualità. Quest'anno la formula si è rivelata meno felice del solito, pur contando su un ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

Read "Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Composer and flutist Nicole Mitchell has released her magnum opus with the provocative and stirring Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds. The single suite is a musical dramatization of the futuristic allegory that Mitchell wrote for the album. It is a short story set in the year 2099 and is about the symbolic struggle between the decaying ...

Article: Album Review

Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

Read "Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


All'origine vi è una novella scritta dalla stessa Nicole Mitchell, ambientata in un futuro prossimo, su di un'isola denominata Mandorla situata nell'Oceano Atlantico, dove prospera una società basata sull'armonia e sul rispetto della natura. E non poteva che essere il Black Earth Ensemble con i suoi formidabili musicisti, da sempre la formazione di Mitchell più legata ...


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