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Michael Adkins

MICHAEL ADKINS, a critically regarded jazz saxophonist and composer, began exploring improvised music within a creative Sarnia musical community at Lake Huron’s juncture with the St. Clair River, less than an hour from Detroit and a half-day drive from Chicago. Adkins was soon moving between Ontario, Michigan, New York, Boston, Europe, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, Chicago, and the Canadian and US West Coast, experiencing in each region jazz' multiple lineages and its ongoing evolution. Throughout his travels, Adkins has been particularly influenced by musical relationships formed with drummers. Among many others, these have included a critically acclaimed recording, international touring, and club performances with Ian Froman; New York City performances and two critically acclaimed recordings with Paul Motian; six recordings, sessioning, and performances in Boston, Memphis, Nashville, and New Orleans with Bob Moses, and five years of continuous sessioning and performances throughout the US Southeast with the late, legendary Alvin Fielder, who summarized Adkins playing in three words: “He can swing!” Fielder, a founding member of the Black Arts Music Society and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), who traveled as a stellar improviser between his natal Meridian, Mississippi and New Orleans, Houston, Chicago, New York, and the world, remains legendary for his musical contributions, dedication to jazz artistry, and devotion to his family's profound contributions to African American civil rights and to the musical legacy of his brother, trumpeter William Fielder. For Adkins, Alvin Fielder was a friend, musician, jazz historian, and mentor non pareil.

Flaneur

By Michael Adkins

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: First Walk: Archives; Hard Request; We'll See; Numeral. Second Walk: Before You Know It; Grafica; Offerings; Silhouette.

Michael Adkins Quartet: Flaneur

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 16, 2018

Canadian saxophonist Michael Adkins' third album, and his second on Hat Hut, Flaneur, arrives in a shroud of mystery. Back in 2008, Adkins released his debut for Hat Hut records, Rotator, but as it is turns out, he recorded another album the same year. It seems incredibly prolific, but it took ten years before it was ...

Paul Motian: Zen Brushstrokes

by Tom Greenland
June 28, 2009

Larry Gelb America Is Free ImaginMusic 2008 George Garzone Among Friends Stunt Records 2009 Michael Adkins Quartet Rotator Hat Hut 2008 Ed Schuller & ...

Rotator

By Michael Adkins

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Rotator; Their May Wings; Silent Screen; Pearl 21; Forena; Encrypted; Number Five; Reflection.

Michael Adkins: Rotator

by Budd Kopman
July 27, 2008

From its very first notes, Rotator, by tenor saxophonist Michael Adkins, makes an extremely strong statement. It is a wonderful record, truly engaging, with so much happening without the slightest hint of congestion, that once over, it almost demands an immediate replay. This is an important recording for the simple reason that the ...

Michael Adkins Quartet: Rotator

by Chris May
April 9, 2008

A gigantic album from an extraordinary “new" tenor saxophonist. Rotator is actually Michael Adkins' second disc as leader, but his first--Infotation (Semblance Records, 2005), recorded back in 2000 and five years finding a label--slipped under the radar of many listeners. Thirty-something Adkins, brought up around Detroit but based in New York since 1998, seems to have ...

Infotation

By Michael Adkins

Label: Semblance Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Infotation; Code; Juxtapiece; Close At Hand; Loop; A Gate In Spring; Tres Olive; Stir.

Michael Adkins: Infotation

by Mark Corroto
September 25, 2005

For every John Coltrane, there is a Hank Mobley; every Dizzy Gillespie has a Dizzy Reece. Not every tenor saxophonist can be Joe Lovano these days, especially when so very few listeners follow current jazz happenings. Players like Lovano and tenor saxophonist Michael Adkins, who are technically adept at their instrument, tend to take ...