Jazz Articles about Adam Zanolini

About Adam Zanolini

Radio & Podcasts

Mbizo: A Gathering For Johnny Dyani

by Ngwako Malakalaka
March 11, 2025

Chicagoan Adam Zanolini, is a an ethnomusicologist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader whose work embodies the deep and ever-evolving legacy of black creative music. In a collaboration with the players and composers of the mighty AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) and Chimurenga SA, they celebrate the music and philosophy of Johnny Mbizo Dyani--akin to the AACM's famed “Great Black Music--from ancient to future." Adam Zanolini stopped by the show to tell us about it. ...

Album Review

Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood: Live

by Chris May
November 17, 2020

When the Chicago-based clarinetist, vocalist, composer, poet and spiritual-jazz shaman Angel Bat Dawid performed with Tha Brothahood at the London Jazz Festival in November 2019, she was riding high on the critical acclaim surrounding her recently released debut album, The Oracle (International Anthem). A cosmic lightning bolt of free jazz, mutant funk, electronica and spoken word with an impact on a par with Samuel L. Jackson's reading of Ezekiel 25:17 in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, The Oracle confronts the ugliness ...