Jazz Articles about Abraham Burton

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Donald Edwards Quintet: The Color Of US Suite

by Chris May
August 18, 2021

This is an album one really wants to love but ends up applauding more for its intention than its realisation. Drummer Donald Edwards has composed a suite which addresses the race hate which besmirches America and which, observed from the other side of the pond, seems to have become more bitter and entrenched with the passing years. On the opening “Little Hopes," a young girl identified as Sophia Edwards, possibly Edwards' daughter, relates with affecting simplicity her ...

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Songevity: See Dream Blues

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 30, 2013

L'inizio di See Dream Blues è un tuffo nel passato. Si viene proiettati in piena era bop, nell'atmosfera di quei locali fumosi e chiassosi, dove si soffiavano note all'ultimo respiro fino a portare l'eccitazione a livelli quasi insostenibili, e dove regnava la sensazione di essere al centro del mondo. E “Catch You Cats" prende avvio con tanto di speaker che introduce il gruppo, il tema esposto dai fiati, la sequenza degli assoli, la partecipazione attiva del pubblico che batte le ...

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Aruán Ortiz: Alameda

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 31, 2011

Il pianista cubano Aruán Ortiz pubblica per la collana New Talent della etichetta spagnola Fresh Sound Alameda, lavoro - registrato nel settembre 2006 - nel quale si avvale della presenza del saxofonista Antoine Roney, amico e mentore che si distingue per gli efficacissimi interventi in tre delle otto tracce proposte. Tutti originali, tranne l'elegante rivisitazione di “Etude No.6 Op.10" di Frederic Chopin, che propongono un jazz spigoloso, a tratti velatamente free, anche se incanalato in strutture molto ben architettate, dove ...

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Freedom Art Quintet: Spirits Awake

by Matt Merewitz
October 9, 2003

A relative newcomer to the New York avant scene, the Freedom Art Quintet seems to fit in historically somewhere in between the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the funky Cannonball Adderley Quintet.The opener, “In the Thick of It,” suggests the avant-garde while keeping things in time and relatively harmonically tame. The writing is interesting enough to catch your attention, while the bridge is abrupt, too short, and extremely corny. Thickness is followed by sparseness on “Kimbunga,” a little ...

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Freedom Art Quartet: Spirits Awake

by Jeff Stockton
August 25, 2003

On Spirits Awake, the Freedom Art Quartet immediately announces its overall dedication to groove and funky second-line beats with "In the Thick of It," as Jaribu Shahid’s ripely swinging bass gives way to Abraham Burton’s lush, confident tenor and Omar Kabir’s incisive and radiant trumpet. On "Kimbunga," Kabir switches to flugelhorn and makes it growl like a trombone without the aid of a slide or plunger mute, and guest altoist Douglas Yates solos busily before the band returns to state ...

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Abraham Burton - Eric McPherson Quartet: Cause And Effect

by Mark Corroto
July 1, 2000

Obsessed fans of John Coltrane’s classic quartet are forever searching for that pure energy that Trane, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner bottled for a short time. Their music was perhaps the pinnacle of jazz’s most dynamic period. Few have tread the same path for fear of comparison and ultimately failure. Enter Abraham Burton and Eric McPherson. The two young men play jazz music with no fear.

Born three months apart, Burton studied under Jackie McLean, and McPherson became ...