Jazz Articles about Ochion Jewell

About Ochion Jewell

Album Review

Volk, in tedesco popolo, come tutti sappiamo. Il fatto è che i popoli rappresentati in questo album sono diversi (e nessuno ha a che fare con la Germania): Appalachi per il leader del quartetto, il sassofonista Ochion Jewell, marocchino per il pianista Amino Belyamani, iraniano per il bassista Sam Minaie, pakistano per il batterista Qasim Naqvi, beniniano per l'ospite (in due brani su dieci) Lionel Loueke. Tutto questo intrico di popoli e culture (sarà solo il caso ...

Album Review

Ochion Jewell Quartet: Volk

by Budd Kopman
November 6, 2015

From the opening notes of its introductory overture, “At the End of the World, Where the Lion Weep" which leads to the improvisatory “Pathos/Logos," Volk feels like an important record with a seriousness of intent, precision of execution combined with emotional depth and breadth. A vast sound scape is opened into which we peer, quickly followed by the realization of the music's geographic/cultural diversity. There is no need to read the notes, or to learn of how or ...

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Ochion Jewell Quartet: Volk

by Hrayr Attarian
September 21, 2015

Saxophonist Ochion Jewell melds folk influences from around the world into an intimately personal and globally resonant work with his second release Volk. Created in the aftermath of his traumatic experience with mistaken identity and brutal police treatment, Volk is a tribute to the integrality of musical expression Jewell and his band interpret his own compositions together with tunes of various nationalities with the same unbridled passion and fiery, intelligent spontaneity. The Irish jig “Give Us a Drink ...

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Ochion Jewell, Amino Belyamani, Sam Minaie, Qasim Naqvi with Lionel Loueke: Volk

by Karl Ackermann
September 11, 2015

From his Appalachian roots in Kentucky, saxophonist/composer Ochion Jewell was not the most likely candidate for a livelihood in jazz. With little involvement in the genre during his early life, Jewell was nevertheless exposed to more popular music from his parents as well as the Appalachian folk music that dominated the region. With those elements engrained, his formal training in classical saxophone at the University of Louisville and later education at California Institute of the Arts helped round out a ...