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Moonstone Journey

Label: Dacapo Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Moonstone Journey; Finding the Path; The Frog and the Snake; A Chaos With Some Kind of Order; Spirituals of Ruby; Climbing the Mountain; Hypothesis; At the Lotus Lake; Holy Coordinator; Monk Me. (Total Playing Time 52:35).

Album

Moonstone Journey

Label: Dacapo Records
Released: 1999

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OK Nok...Kongo: Moonstone Journey

Read "Moonstone Journey" reviewed by David Adler


On Moonstone Journey, the fine Danish avant-gardists of OK Nok...Kongo play compositions by an American expatriate and Coltrane/Shepp alum, saxophonist John Tchicai. The Danish expression “OK Nok" roughly translates to “A-OK," and “Kongo" is the African nation from which Tchicai’s father hailed. Joined by Tchicai himself, the group sets out to explore the elliptic space between ...

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OK Nok...Kongo: Moonstone Journey

Read "Moonstone Journey" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The Calm Center. Saxophone...How Close to Wynton, err...Ellington. In 1965, Down Beat magazine described John Tchicai as, “A Calm Voice of the Avant-Garde”. The mid ‘60s was the heyday of Free Jazz with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Archie Schepp, and the list goes on. Not unlike the Second Viennese School and their 12-tone system, ...

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Music of John Tchicai played by Ok Nok..Kongo: Moonstone Journey

Read "Moonstone Journey" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The highly revered saxophonist-composer John Tchicai has performed with larger than life jazz icons such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp and was a member of the now legendary “New York Art Quartet”. Besides his long-standing influence on the avant-garde scene, Tchicai has been actively involved in the burgeoning Danish “modern jazz” scene. Spirited contributions to Pierre ...


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