Jazz Articles about Antonio Hart

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Nicholas Payton, Etienne Charles, Dawn Clement, Ute Lemper & Antonio Hart

by Joe Dimino
July 20, 2025

We kick off the 915th episode of Neon Jazz with a bold blast from the horn--Antonio Hart, delivering sounds from his soul-stirring 2025 release Blessings. A modern force on the horn and the bandstand, he sets the tone for an episode bursting with brilliance. From there, we roll deep into the heart of 2025's jazz scene--featuring powerful new music from veterans like Nicholas Payton, Dawn Clement, Charlie Hunter, Benny Benack III, Etienne Charles, and the ever-soulful Candice Hoyes. We venture ...

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Antonio Hart: Educator and Monster Player

by R.J. DeLuke
August 1, 2022

The Queens Jazz Orchestra took the stage at Flushing Town Hall, a historic building in the New York City borough dedicated to the arts, for an annual jazz concert celebrating the music of Charlie Parker and the career and life of Phil Schaap, a longtime Big Apple radio personality who hosted a show devoted to Parker for some 52 years. The man leading the top-notch band was Antonio Hart, director of jazz studies at Queens College's Aaron Copland ...

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Antonio Hart

by David Bixler
September 2, 2020

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The Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2002

I've never been overly impressed by popularity contests, and as British-bred bassist Dave Holland swept the field in this year's Down Beat magazine critics' poll, I was thoroughly prepared not to like What Goes Around by Holland's thirteen-piece big band.

Surprise! The album is far better than expected; in fact, I'd go so far as to concede that it is thoroughly absorbing, enlivened every step of the way by notably innovative charts and earnestly inspired blowing from Holland's company of ...

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Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around

by AAJ Staff
September 9, 2002

With a musical force like bassist Dave Holland at the helm, it's hard to imagine a group going wrong. But his new big band has a singular problem: too many players. Thirteen musicians, each more than capable, join forces on What Goes Around, which features seven tunes composed and arranged arranged by the man himself. Unfortunately this increase in scale just doesn't translate into much except redundancy. The core quintet (Potter, Eubanks, Nelson, Holland, and Kilson) has repeatedly proven its ...

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Antonio Hart: Ama Tu Sonrisa

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2001

Since we last heard from the young alto player Antonio Hart, it was with the well-received album “Here I Stand" he cut for the former Impulse label. That record was a declaration of Hart's commitment to embracing an organic unity of music and life, and as such was prefaced by a quote from Alvin Ailey that evidently was to serve as Hart's mantra from there on out. Ailey had said “Each Artist must create his own unity according to his ...

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Antonio Hart: Here I Stand

by Douglas Payne
May 1, 1997

Young alto player Antonio Hart seems to have spiced up his reverence for Cannonball Adderley with the more peppery fire of Arthur Blythe. Not a bad combination, but Hart's Impulse debut still leaves something to be desired. There's no shortage of professional, competent performances here, and his quartet is equally capable. Even guests like trombonist Robin Eubanks and the under-recorded Shirley Scott make brief, underwhelming appearances. Hart's lackluster originals and the variety of different groups make it clear that this ...