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Esperanza Spalding
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Seven collaborative and five solo albums into her career at 31, Esperanza Spalding has always resolutely, intuitively, deftly expanded upon both her art and herself as a world-renowned genre- bending composer, bassist and vocalist. Spalding’s work, grounded in jazz traditions but never bound by them, has won her four Grammy awards and brought her onstage at the Oscars, the Nobel Prize Ceremony, the White House, and with Prince and Herbie Hancock. Not only does she know who she is, we know who she is. Or, rather, we think we do. The elastic self and work of a true artist is always changing; ideas are channeled, shape-shifting becomes necessary
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: End Of Innocence; As The Planet And The Stars Collapse; Managing My Breath What Fear Had Become; The Wounded Need To Be Replenished; Body To Inhabit; I’ll Do Whatever You Want; Living; Breathing; Kiss Me Before I Forget; Song Of The Motherland.
Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
by Chris May
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... Since signing with with Impulse! in 2018, Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Shabaka & The Ancestors. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace marks the start of a gentler, more instrospective phase in his music ...
Classic Meet Ups + Wayne Shorter Homages
by David Brown
Tonight, we are looking at classic and contemporary “meet ups" between two soloists, or a soloist and group. “Mulligan Meets Hodges," “Basie & Zoot," “Roy and Diz," “Hargrove meets Miller," and many more. The show continues with a set of tributes to and works by Wayne Shorter form Melissa Aldana, Steph Richards, Thumbscrew and Kris Dais. ...
Sara Caswell: The Way To You
by Angelo Leonardi
Formalmente il precedente album da leader di Sara Caswell risale al 2005 (But Beautiful, Arbors) ma questa nuova incisione a suo nome non è il ritorno dopo una lunga pausa. Ci sono infatti le quattro incisioni --dal 2013 al 202-col trio cooperativo 9 Horses e la leadership condivisa con la sorella Rachel del 2014 (Alive in ...
Crescent
Label: Jazz Hang Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Girl From Argentina;
In Your Own Sweet Way;
Hey Open Up;
Crescent;
Like Someone In Love;
I Want To Talk About You;
The Girl From Argentina;
Theme For Ernie.
Alive at the Village Vanguard
By Fred Hersch
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: But Not For Me; Dream of Monk; Little Suede Shoes; Girl Talk; Evidence; Some Other Time; Loro; A
Wish.
Meet Tubist Jim Shearer
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jim Shearer Jim Shearer was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, in 1964. His family owned the local newspaper, The North Mississippi Herald, from 1943-2004, and his father was an active musician on the side, playing jazz saxophone and serving as Minister of Music at the family church (but never at the same time!). After spending ...
Kristina Barta: Endless Questions and Answers
by Mike Jurkovic
Czech pianist/composer Kristina Barta's Endless Questions and Answers opens on a rather ominous tone. Drummer Marek Urbánek plays on his toms a shadowy, esoteric rhythm. Tenor Jure Pukl flares in. Barta enters slowly, barely audible with bassist Peter Korman riding shotgun. But soon she controls the barely controllable rush that embodies “Breaking Through Some Border," the ...
Mal Waldron, Aymée Nuviola, Immanuel Wilkins, Grover Washington, Jr.
by David Brown
This week, a soulful set with Washington, McCann and Spalding. Then some Monk by Monk and Lacy/Waldron followed by a short set of Immanuel Wilkins old and new. We will also check out recent releases by Mat Maneri Quartet and Miho Hazama, and more. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we ...
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