Jazz Articles about David Murray

David Murray, Brad Jones, Hamid Drake: Brand New World Trio

by Mark Corroto
May 20, 2022

David Murray's Brave New World Trio is certainly a dream team of modern jazz. The only explanation for why the saxophonist, bassist Brad Jones and drummer Hamid Drake have not toured and recorded together in the past is that each musician is in high demand as leader or sideman. It took a worldwide pandemic, with each player's lockdown location being proximate to the others, for a performance and this recording to happen. While not ready to thank the virus for ...

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2018

by Luciano Rossetti
November 8, 2018

David Murray Trio at Sant'Anna Arresi Festival Jazz 2018

by Danilo Codazzi
September 19, 2018

David Murray And Class Struggle at The Village Vanguard

by Mike Jurkovic
July 4, 2018

David Murray and Class Struggle The Village Vanguard New York, NY June 22, 2018 Upon taking the Vanguard stage, Murray broke the night wide open with a hard, slippery solo that had his sextet Class Struggle--featuring the saxophonist's son guitarist Mingus Murray, brotherly rhythm section of bassist Rashaan Carter and drummer Russell Carter; trombonist Craig Harris who has been a foil/inspiration at Murray's side through the legendary Octets of yesteryear, and scene pacing pianist Lafayette ...

David Murray Octets on Black Saint

by Patrick Burnette
October 11, 2017

Younger jazz fans may be only dimly acquainted with the Italian record labels Black Saint and Soul Note, but during their prime in the 1980s both labels released jazz that was adventuresome and challenging without losing touch with tradition. As such, the imprints offered a compelling middle way between the major label output of the time (which was increasingly in thrall to the neo-conservative “young lions" movement) and hard-core avant-garde labels releasing music for a tiny number of initiates.

BRIC JazzFest 2016

by Peter Jurew
October 28, 2016

BRIC JazzFest BRIC House Brooklyn, NY October 8-15, 2016 After a successful debut in 2015, the BRIC JazzFest returned to the BRIC House in downtown Brooklyn, New York, this year with two nights of jazz-related films and a music “marathon" of twenty-seven acts spread evenly over three nights. The biggest names included David Murray and his Infinity Quartet; alto saxophonist Terrace Martin; eclectic guitarist Marc Ribot with the bassist Henry Grimes; Eddie ...

David Murray Infinity Quartet: Be My Monster Love

by Phil Barnes
November 29, 2013

If jazz is ever to escape from the “specialist" ghetto in which it finds itself in 2013 the simple truth is that we need more people with the vision of David Murray and more records as good as this one. Murray has a long and distinguished jazz career on tenor sax that began in the NYC Loft Scene of the 1970s--taking in my personal favourite octet recordings of the likes of Ming and Home on Black Saint in ...