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Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line
by Dan McClenaghan
Thelonious Monk (1917 -1982) was often grouped with the bebop pianists of the late 1940s and early 1950s. But he was not bop. He was a pianistic world unto itself. Quirky, dissonant, often playful. Mary Lou Williams (1910 -1981) did not fit the bop category either. She came in before bop's advent. Her music was stylistically closer to Duke Ellington's eloquence, sass and swing. Bop aside, pianist Carmen Staaf heard a musical kinship between these two 20th-century contemporaries. ...
Continue ReadingAmbrose Akinmusire, Chet Baker, and Bill Dixon
by Jerome Wilson
This program goes into the far realms with Ambrose Akinmusire and Bill Dixon as well as sailing to quieter shores with Ahmad Jamal and Chet Baker. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Anais Reno “Gravy Waltz" from Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club 44) 00:52 Rob Koral & Sue Hawker “It's Alright to be Blue" from It's Alright to ...
Continue ReadingNew Music from Ambrose Akinmusire, Emma-Jean Thackray, Isaiah J. Thompson and Olga Amelchenko
by Hobart Taylor
This week we dive deeper into Amina Claudine Myers' newest release “Solace of the Mind," explore the latest from Ivo Perelman and the Matthew Shipp String Trio, “Armageddon Flower," delight in Pianist Julian Shore's Trio work, “Sub Rosa," and remember Thelonious Monk via a newly remastered selection from the classic, “Monk Himself."Playlist Host Speaks 0:00 Emma Jean Thackray “Black Hole (feat. Reggie Watts)" from Weirdo (Brownswood) 0:20 Daniel Garbin “Anomisericordo" from Rising (6X20 Records) 4:32 Anita Donndorff" Thirsty ...
Continue ReadingAmbrose Akinmusire: Honey From A Winter Stone
by Frank Housh
Since his debut in 2008 at age 26, Ambrose Akinmusire has created a sapient body of work featuring some of the most unique and sophisticated sounds in contemporary music. His new release, honey from a winter stone is a dazzling kaleidoscope of jazz, hip-hop, and chamber music, as well as a commentary on the contemporary black experience. Akinmusire said, “[i]n many respects this entire work is inspired by and is an homage to the work of ...
Continue ReadingAmbrose Akinmusire, ladyybirdd, Enji, Joseph Branciforte, Theo Bleckmann
by Ludovico Granvassu
We may regret missing out on the time when some of our jazz idols were building the foundation of the music we love, but we can still fantasize about them. We are lucky, however, to live at a time when there is a number of modern masters in action. One of them is trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, for whom 2023 was a remarkable year. Here we focus on the wide range of releases he has worked on, as well as on ...
Continue ReadingAmbrose Akinmusire and Bill Frisell at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
by Josef Woodard
Ambrose Akinmusire and Bill FrisellThe Theatre at Ace HotelLos Angeles, California October 14, 2023 In playing the imaginary match game, in which we speculate on jazz musicians who would and should get along beautifully, the conjoining of Ambrose Akinmusire and Bill Frisell could seem like a no-brainer. Thankfully, this particular partnering fait accompli has recently been accomplished and is going public. Akinmusire is releasing his Owl Song project with Frisell on Nonesuch--his first for that ...
Continue ReadingBenjamin Boone: Caught in the Rhythm
by Paul Rauch
The connection between poetry and jazz music is a delicate one. It has been documented so infrequently, in performance and recordings, that one still conjures the flicker of an image of Jack Kerouac reading in some dark Greenwich Village cafe with Steve Allen or Zoot Sims, surrounded by beret-wearing, cappuccino-sipping beatniks. The work of Fresno-based saxophonist Benjamin Boone has assisted in widening that view through four albums recorded for the Origin Records label, including the fourth, Caught in the Rhythm ...
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