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Darius Jones, Mara Rosenbloom, Christian McBride, Tom Harrell & Leon Parker
by Martin Longley
The Darius Jones Quintet/The Mara Rosenbloom Trio Ibeam June 13, 2016 This appealing double bill made a Monday night visit to Ibeam a certainty, even if only for a select-sized audience. This musician-orientated room in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn is completely dedicated to the activity of performance, without a bar, or snack hatch, reminiscent of The Stone in Manhattan. The stage, or rather, the far floor-corner, is surrounded with acoustic baffles that add ...
Continue ReadingDarius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)
by Alberto Bazzurro
La Brigitte del titolo è Brigitte Fontaine, artista “totale" (cantante, poetessa e altro ancora) francese, oggi settantaseienne, che fra le tante esternazioni del suo talento nel 1970 registrò un album, Comme à la radio, con l'Art Ensemble of Chicago. A lei il trentasettenne altoista Darius Jones, nativo della Virginia, dedica questo suo nuovo lavoro, per il quale, non a caso, convoca un'altra cantattrice francese, Emilie Lesbros, e con lei (fra l'altro coautrice, testi--quasi ovunque in francese--e musiche, di tutto il ...
Continue ReadingBlack Host: Life in the Sugar Candle Mines
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gerald Cleaver è tra i musicisti più versatili della scena odierna. Molto apprezzato dai colleghi, lo si può incontrare in contesti molto diversi, da quello di carattere libero ed esplorativo al più strutturato e perfino mainstream, e sempre la sua percussione si rivela adeguata, ricettiva, ricca di autorevole personalità. Sono così numerose le occasioni in cui si incontra la sua batteria, che potrebbero rappresentare una eloquente e ampia mappa del jazz contemporaneo, con ben poche lacune. Anche i suoi lavori ...
Continue ReadingDarius Jones Quartet: Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)
by Troy Collins
Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) is the third release from Darius Jones to document his impressive musical growth as a bandleader. Beyond his salient contributions to groups such as Little Women, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys and Tanakh, Jones' 2009 AUM Fidelity debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing), established the young alto saxophonist as a force with which to be reckoned--a singular talent capable of holding his own in the company of acknowledged masters like ...
Continue ReadingDarius Jones Quartet: Book Of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)
by John Sharpe
Saxophonist Darius Jones has rung the changes on each of his widely acclaimed leadership dates. Book Of Mae'bul subverts expectations again with an all new quartet drawn from NYC's finest, who shift between intricate script and flowing invention in the blink of an eye. Together they navigate eight of Jones' compositions, which tend towards order rather than entropy more than might be expected. For those looking for comparisons, drummer Mike Pride's From Bacteria To Boys' Betweenwhile (Aum Fidelity, 2010) which ...
Continue ReadingDarius Jones: Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
by John Sharpe
In Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009), alto saxophonist Darius Jones scored a stunning debut that placed the newcomer firmly on the avant jazz map. Since then, the reedman has put himself about town, tasting artistic success with drummers William Hooker, and Mike Pride's ensembles, collective Little Women and in duet with pianist Matthew Shipp. But now he returns in the company of the trio first heard on a bonus track from his inaugural outing, comprising ...
Continue ReadingDarius Jones Trio: Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
by Troy Collins
Darius Jones' debut recording, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009), heralded the arrival of an important new voice on alto saxophone. Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) is the second release in an ongoing series of concept records slated to document Jones' personal development--from his origins in Richmond, Virginia to his relocation as a member of New York's fertile Brooklyn scene. Eschewing the star power of his first album, which included multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore and drummer Rakalam Bob ...
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