Jazz Articles about Fareed Haque

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Deep Cuts: Probably not on anyone's list, but real fine tunes

by Hobart Taylor
December 31, 2025

Fareed Haque channels Pat Martino, Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Tyshawn Sorey ascend to “Strange Heavens," and the Premazzi-Nasser Quartet acknowledge the “Persistence of Change."Playlist Linda May Han Oh/Ambrose Akinmusire/Tyshawn Sorey “Portal" from Strange Heavens (Biophilia) 00:00 History Dog “Field Recordings" from Root Systems (Otherly Love) 4:57 Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii “Icho" from Ki (Libra) 10:48 Host Speaks 17:21 Jeong Lim Yang “Weeping Dream" from Synchronicity (Sunnyside) 19:08 Noel Okimoto “Up Syndrome" from Ho'Ihi (Self-Produced) 25:37 Jessica ...

Album Review

Anne Burnell: This Could Be The Start of Something Big

Read "This Could Be The Start of Something Big" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
June 3, 2025

This could be the Start of Something is a pleasant recording. It is a joint work by a pair of well-known Chicago cabaret singers, Anne Burnell and Mark Burnell. They are hardly novices, so the production is professional in every way. They are willing to take some risks as well. They handle “Joy Spring," a version of which was wonderfully done by Manhattan Transfer with Dizzy Gillespie on Vocalese (Atlantic Records, 1985). Experienced singers will know the Transfer's version, which ...

Album Review

Phil Brown: Rule Of Three

Read "Rule Of Three" reviewed by Thierry De Clemensat

by Thierry De Clemensat
April 12, 2025

Though he resides in Illinois, it is likely double bassist, composer and teacher Phil Brown's Texan roots that inspired this album with its Latino flavors. Both entertaining and highly academic in concept, the album is enriched by the presence of Fareed Haque, an excellent guitarist who is himself deeply rooted in academic rigor. He reminds us that this style of music has, for decades, been thoroughly modernized by towering figures like Juan Carmona. Expect no surprises here--only an impeccably-crafted album. ...

Album Review

Various Guitarists: The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I

Read "The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 14, 2024

Produced by laudable guitarist/composer Joel Harrison and the Alternative Guitar Summit, The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. 1 is a compelling exploration of the intersections between jazz, classical and world music traditions--think of it as a musical United Nations, where six-stringed diplomats from various genres come together to harmonize. In the album liners, Harrison states, “The idea for this project started when I presented a concert of virtual solo performances from around the world during the pandemic." Hence, it ...

Album Review

Alternative Guitar Summit: Honoring Pat Martino, Volume 1

Read "Honoring Pat Martino, Volume 1" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 20, 2022

Each year the Alternative Guitar Summit, led by Joel Harrison, presents a concert to honor a living jazz composer/guitarist. That wasn't possible in 2021, however, as venues in and around New York City were shuttered tight by the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, it was clear that the chosen honoree, the great Pat Martino, was gravely ill and might not have another year to live. With that in mind, members of the Summit took their guitars straight to a studio to record ...

Album Review

Joanie Pallatto: My Original Plan

Read "My Original Plan" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 28, 2021

"Give my new disc a spin," Chicago-based vocalist Joanie Pallatto e-mailed. “I think you'll like it." That was more than twenty years ago, and Pallatto was right. That album, Words & Music (Southport Records, 1999), was splendid, as was Pallatto, reciting memorable lyrics by Rodgers & Hart, the Gershwin brothers, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hoagy Carmichael, Bob Dorough and others. It's now 2021 and Pallatto has recorded another “new disc," My Original Plan, on which she sings as well as ever. ...

Album Review

Fareed Haque: Trance Hypothesis

Read "Trance Hypothesis" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 17, 2014

Guitarist Fareed Haque answers the musical question, what if Jimmy Smith's chicken shack served tandoori chicken? His world music DNA--son of a Pakistani father and Chilean mother grants him the authority to make blender drinks of all the musics that are stockpiled in his brain. A master of music in jazz, classical, and the music of the Asian sub-continent, Haque has found a home in the bands of Paquito D'Rivera, Javon Jackson, Kahil El'Zabar, and Sting. His funk/jamband ...