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Dave Burrell

Born: September 10, 1940

Distinguished composer-pianist Dave Burrell is a performing artist of singular stature on the international contemporary music scene. His dynamic compositions, with blues and gospel roots recall the tradition of Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson and Duke Ellington. After majoring in music at the University of Hawaii, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1961. After graduating with degrees in composition/arranging and performance in 1965, he moved to New York City, where he quickly established himself as one of the most innovative and original pianists, collaborating with the emerging leaders in contemporary jazz. Burrell’s Jazz Opera Windward Passages, written in collaboration with Swedish-born poet/lyricist Monika Larsson, blends opera voices with world class jazz soloists, a 21-piece jazz opera orchestra, dancers and chorus

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2024

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 2, 2024

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo Varie sedi 21-24.3.2024 La quarantacinquesima edizione di Bergamo Jazz coincide con il passaggio di testimone nella direzione artistica da Maria Pia De Vito allo statunitense Joe Lovano, più volte ospite come musicista della rassegna orobica. La formula è quella consolidata da anni: tre serate con doppio concerto ...

The Jazz Detective Strikes Again

by Mark Corroto
March 28, 2024

Producer Zev Feldman, like Joe DiMaggio, has done it again. In May of 1941, DiMaggio began a major league baseball hitting streak. People followed his exploits game after game and hit after hit. DiMaggio's amazing record of 56 consecutive games still stands to this day. Same can be said of Feldman. His detective work, finding rare ...

Pharoah Sanders: Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt

by Chris May
February 6, 2024

This little beauty, all sixteen minutes of it, is the opening track of Pharoah Sanders' first own-name masterpiece, Tauhid (Impulse!), recorded in 1966, released in 1967, and the blueprint for Sanders' style of astral jazz. Remarkably, many jazz enthusiasts, including Sanders fans, seem not to have heard Tauhid--and one leading tenor saxophonist on London's alternative jazz ...

Trichotomy

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: "Part One"; "Part Two".

Quartet To At Judson Hall, Revisited

By Noah Howard

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Henry's Street; Apotheosis; Apotheosis Extension I; And About Love; This Place Called Earth; Hommage To Coltrane.

Harlem Rhapsody

By Dave Burrell

Label: Parco Della Musica
Released: 2023
Track listing: Red Summer March; How Little We Know; Paradox Of Freedom; My Melancholy Baby; Harlem Rhapsody; Dancing With Monika.

Ketchaoua Revisited + Arthur Jones Trio: Scorpio

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023

Filarmonica Laudamo Creative Orchestra: "Suite For Peace" di Karl Berger

by Neri Pollastri
December 6, 2023

Filarmonica Laudamo Creative Orchestra Auditorium Antonello da Messina Messina 19.11.2023 Storica associazione musicale messinese dalla vita ormai secolare, la Filarmonica Laudamo da molti anni organizza partecipatissime stagioni (oltre seicento gli abbonamenti) con cartelloni che affiancano alle rappresentazioni classiche anche concerti di altri generi. Tra questi --specie da quando nel 2013 ...

Bobby Zankel: The Inside Story of 'A Change of Destiny'

by Victor L. Schermer
September 21, 2023

Saxophonist, bandleader, composer and arranger Bobby Zankel has been making jazz in many ways with diverse cohorts for over a half-century. He has found his own way to create music that is both advanced and very listenable at the same time. He is loved and revered by the many musicians who have performed with him and ...