Jazz Articles about Ben LaMar Gay

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Pascal Niggenkemper: D'une rive à l'autre

by Don Ball
August 14, 2026

Tuvalu is a tiny Western Pacific island nation with a rich cultural life, but it may not be around much longer. From the consequences of climate change, scientists expect that Turvalu will be uninhabitable in a few decades, taken back by the rising ocean. And that's why bassist/composer Pascal Niggenkemper wants you to know about it before it disappears altogether. Niggenkemper put together Ensemble Tuvalu to express artistically how we deal with the loss of habitats and cultures ...

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Ben LaMar Gay, Witold, Harald Lassen, Jon Irabagon & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 21, 2025

Enjoy a playlist that shines a light on recent and upcoming releases while trying to bridge the gap between mainstream and progressive audiences. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jon Irabagon “Buggin' the Mud" Plainspeak -Someone to Someone (Irrabagast) 0:16 Host talks 5:52 Josh Lawrence “Long as You're Living" Still We Dream (Posi-Tone) 6:53 Host talks 10:46 Ben LaMar Gay “there, inside the morning glory" Yowzers ...

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Modney: Ascending Primes

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 7, 2024

"Ascender" ti investe con la forza di un uragano. Poco più di sette minuti dove il solitario violino di Joshua Modney, collegato ad un pedale distorsore, scatena un'onda d'urto di emozioni che stordisce. Ingannati da un inizio che ha le cadenze di una ballata folk improvvisamente il suono si stratifica, ruggisce, deborda in rumore, rende lo spazio denso e grumoso salvo poi scivolare in una dolcezza apparente, strattonata com'è da dissonanze e armonici. È l'apertura di Ascending Primes, ...

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Natural Information Society: Since Time is Gravity

by Danen Jobe
May 11, 2023

The concept of trance is one of the oldest in the world. Many older music forms embraced trance for their rituals. One is the Gnawa musical tradition originating in Kano, Nigeria and Morocco, which uses double and triple notes repeated sometimes for hours to induce a religious state while the singer sings stories of spirits. It is played on a gimbri (aka sintir or hajhuj), a three stringed instrument featuring one short and two long goat gut strings over a ...

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FAUVES Festival 2022 in Rome

by Luciano Rossetti
November 26, 2022

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Ben Lamar Gay Ensemble a Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
November 18, 2022

Ben LaMar Gay Ensemble Firenze A Jazz Supreme Sala Vanni 11.11.2022 Appuntamento internazionale particolarmente atteso della stagione autunnale 2022 della rassegna A Jazz Supreme, venerdì 11 Novembre alla Sala Vanni di Firenze era in programma il quartetto di Ben LaMar Gay, cornettista, cantante ed eclettico polistrumentista, considerato uno dei più originali innovatori dell'attuale panorama jazzistico. Nato a Chicago e membro della AACM, Lamar Gay attinge a ogni genere musicale, da quelli più ...

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RedGreenBlue: The End And The Beginning

by Chris May
August 7, 2022

RedGreenBlue sound like they have emerged from the same synapse-snapping dope bunker that La Monte Young and Jon Hassell exited with their Theatre Of Eternal Music in the 1970s, whacked out on opium, hashish and mescaline, dazed but not confused. RedGreenBlue may or may not indulge in the same psychotropic self-medication as their Lower East Side ancestors, but their strange and beautiful debut album, The End And The Beginning, suggests they do, and that is what counts. ...