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Karuna at LaFontsee Gallery
by John Ephland
Karuna LaFontsee Gallery Grand Rapids, Michigan April 23, 2017 Flute loops were the first sounds heard. Part of a music arsenal, the inconspicuous electronics served to heighten what was a vast array of traditional percussion instruments on hand. The duet Karuna was ending their spring 2017 Midwest tour before a modestly sized but full house at Grand Rapids' LaFontsee Galleries, the surrounding weather the kind of sunny afternoon that might beckon one to linger and ...
Continue ReadingLive From Birmingham: Hamid Drake, Paul Dunmall & The Phoenix Jazzmen
by Martin Longley
The Paul Dunmall & Hamid Drake Quintet mac October 4, 2016 This gig was part of a very short three-date tour, assembled by Birmingham promoter Tony Dudley-Evans. Saxophonist Paul Dunmall's free jazz and improvising eminence has now cloaked the entire globe, so his regular Stateside tours have helped forge relationships with some of his finest American counterparts. The Chicagoan drummer Hamid Drake is one of these sonic allies, and a further collaboration between the ...
Continue ReadingHamid Drake & Michael Zerang: For Ed Blackwell
by Mark Corroto
This forty-two minute continuous recording of drummers Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang was released on the occasion of the 25th anniversary performance of their Winter Solstice Concerts in December 2015. The percussionists' tradition of welcoming the return of the sun to the northern hemisphere every December 21st by making music predawn only to be illuminated by the sun rise. This session happens to be the second day of percussion duets recorded by the pair in 1995. The first ...
Continue ReadingHamid Drake Carte Blanche at Bimhuis Amsterdam: PUNKT+ICP
by Henning Bolte
Hamid Drake, Punkt + ICP Bimhuis Carte Blanche Amsterdam January 23, 2016 World-renowned Amsterdam Bimhuis invited illustrious Chicagoan drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake for a carte blanche night on January 23rd. This article covers the event and adds some background notes. Hamid Drake frequently performs at this venue. To date he played Bimhuis 18 times in its 40 years of existence. When we consider this as well as his enormous musical range a festival would be ...
Continue ReadingThe Turbine!: Entropy/Enthalpy
by John Sharpe
Among a stream of US/French collaborations documented on the Rogue Art label, The Turbine! represents an unlikely combination: two double basses and two drum kits. One pair hails from each side of the ocean with the Chicago team of Hamid Drake and Harrison Bankhead matched against Benjamin Duboc and Ramon Lopez (in fact a Paris-based Spaniard). The double CD package gathers excerpts selected from six live sets during a 2014 tour organized by a Transatlantic music network entitled The Bridge. ...
Continue ReadingClusone Jazz - 34a Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
20.06-03.08.2014 Trentaquattresima edizione di Clusone Jazz, la prima del dopo Livio Testa. Ideatore e storico direttore artistico del festival che al termine della scorsa edizione, in modo inatteso ma non troppo, ha deciso di lasciare l'incarico. Il testimone della direzione del festival è stato raccolto da Gaetano Bordogna, persona appassionata di jazz come pochi altri, e soprattutto persona di indole ottimista e capace di trasmettere energia positiva. Doti quanto mai necessarie per navigare nel ...
Continue ReadingIndigo Trio - Michel Edelin: The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come spesso accade nel jazz, ad un incontro live fa seguito una sessione di registrazione in studio. In questo caso, i protagonisti dell'incontro sono l'Indigo Trio (Nicole Mitchell, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake) ed il flautista Michel Edelin. Il luogo, Strasburgo. L'album, questo “The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest," che già nel titolo lascia intravedere quel pizzico di follia indispensabile quando la musica si muove su orizzonti ampiamente improvvisati (Nicole Mitchell non è una principessa etiope, e tantomeno Edelin è ...
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