Jazz Articles about Ernest Dawkins

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet

by Nic Jones
May 14, 2011

The Prairie Prophet is the fifth release on Delmark from reed player Ernest Dawkins and his band. It's clear that over the course of that association both leader and band have evolved to the point where they can be considered as one of the more vibrant, most urgently alive outfits on the scene. This album pays homage to the late and lamented tenor saxophonist and fixture on the Chicago scene, Fred Anderson, in whose Velvet Lounge these guys have also ...

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Messenger - Live At the Original Velvet Lounge

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 28, 2007

Ernest Dawkins non può dimenticare nemmeno per un istante il suo ruolo di educatore e di memoria viva della musica afroamericana. Colonna portante dell'AACM, sassofonista di grande energia, ogni suo progetto fa comprendere il jazz e la cultura nera meglio di ogni terribile “lezioncina" alla Marsalis. Volete una prova? The Messenger. Registrato nello storico [ormai ex] Velvet Lounge chicagoano, questo disco vede il suo New Horizon Ensemble tuffarsi con tutte le scarpe nelle melmose radici del jazz, tra tronchi blues, ...

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: Live At The Original Velvet Lounge

by Troy Collins
September 3, 2006

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble Live At The Original Velvet Lounge: The Messenger Delmark 2006

Live At The Original Velvet Lounge: The Messenger is the second DVD in a series documenting live performances at saxophonist Fred Anderson's renowned Chicago club. Filmed the day after Timeless, Anderson's own trio concert recording, The Messenger features AACM saxophonist Ernest Dawkins' flagship band, the New Horizons Ensemble, providing a full house with a liberal dose of, as Dawkins ...

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizon Ensemble: Mean Ameen

by Rex Butters
March 23, 2005

Ernest Dawkins guides his New Horizons Ensemble in a program dedicated to longtime fellow traveler trumpeter Ameen Muhammed, recently passed. Both had roots with Chicago's Southside blues scene, and both belonged to the AACM, with Dawkins himself a past president. The sometime sextet performs here as a quintet, with rising star Maurice Brown handling the trumpet voicings. Brown made his impressive recording debut last year on Fred Anderson's Back at the Velvet Lounge, and with the New Horizon's Ensemble he ...

Ernest Dawkins: Mean Ameen

by Budd Kopman
January 14, 2005

Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins is new to me, as are the members of the AACM (Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) in general. But, it really doesn't matter in that the music is accessible, having a constant, strong rhythmic component, despite the free-ish romps played over that rhythm. The AACM philosophy of eclectic creativity and playing the new while remembering the old is definitely on display in this release.

Mean Ameen is Ameen Muhammad, the trumpeter in Dawkins' group ...