Jazz Articles about Alexander Hawkins

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Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2020

by Luciano Rossetti
September 21, 2020

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Karl Evangelista: Apura!

by John Sharpe
August 7, 2020

One sure-fire way for up-and-coming musicians to get attention is to convene an all star combo. Though Bay Area-based Filipino-American guitarist (and sometime AAJ scribe) Karl Evangelista follows that route on his fourth album Apura! he makes surprising but astute choices of bandmates by enlisting the services of legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and the British pair of veteran saxophonist Trevor Watts and rising star pianist Alexander Hawkins. As Evangelista explains in the liner notes, the music of early ...

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Five Blokes at the Vortex

by Maurice Hogue
June 10, 2020

This episode of One Man's Jazz features an entire full set of music recorded in March at the Vortex Club in London. Originally the gig was set for Louis Moholo's Four Blokes , but when the veteran drummer fell ill at home in South Africa, the band asked the fine English drummer Mark Sanders to fill in. Thus Five Blokes was born. Pianist Alexander Hawkins kindly contributed some thoughts about that night. The subsequent recording is part of a series ...

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Alexander Hawkins and Tomeka Reid: Shards and Constellations

by Troy Dostert
April 9, 2020

Although they have not recorded together previously, pianist Alexander Hawkins and cellist Tomeka Reid are both improvisers with omnivorous musical tastes and soaring ambition. Hawkins has fronted his own ensembles over the years—perhaps the most notable example being Step Wide, Step Deep (Babel, 2014)—but he's been active in freely-improvised contexts as well, working with everyone from Louis Moholo-Moholo to Evan Parker. And Reid has generated ample accolades both for her own quartet, most recently on Old New (Cuneiform, 2019), as ...

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Alexander Hawkins e Marco Colonna Duo al Pinocchio di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
February 26, 2020

Alexander Hawkins & Marco Colonna Pinocchio Live Jazz 15.2.2020 Una delle ultime date della stagione del Pinocchio Jazz di Firenze prevedeva la prima assoluta del duo del pianista inglese Alexander Hawkins--passato qualche giorno prima in piano solo a pochi chilometri di distanza, a Prato per Metastasio Jazz--e del polistrumentista romano Marco Colonna. Incontratisi nelle formazioni di Roberto Ottaviano (erano presenti in Eternal Love e arrivavano freschi di una nuova registrazione) i due artisti, riscontrando intesa e ...

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Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day: Quartet Live

by Stefano Merighi
February 17, 2020

Il talento percussivo ma ancor più compositivo di Harris Eisenstadt viene confermato da questa incisione dal vivo, che la formazione modulare Canada Day—qui ridotta a quartetto—ha realizzato ad Avignone nel marzo 2018 durante un fortunato tour europeo. Anche se Eisenstadt ha approfondito tradizioni percussive sia africane che centroamericane, la sua musica non sfrutta queste suggestioni, preferendo la lingua franca del jazz internazionale contemporaneo, dove una scrittura sintetica ma solida apre fondali per improvvisazioni dei singoli, che si ...

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Alexander Hawkins: Iron Into Wind

by John Sharpe
April 14, 2019

On his second solo album pianist Alexander Hawkins creates an adventurous and deeply personal synthesis which draws from both jazz and classical wellsprings. One of the foremost representatives of an exciting younger generation of British musicians, his talents are on display not only on his own projects, like Uproot (Intakt, 2018), but with growing circle of collaborators that reads like a who's who of contemporary jazz: Evan Parker, Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt, Rob Mazurek, Joe McPhee, Wadada Leo Smith, ...