Jazz Articles about Hannah Fidler

Liberation Music Collective: Siglo XXI

by Jack Bowers
September 18, 2015

Siglo XXI ("21st Century" in Spanish) is big-band jazz with a conscience, cerebral music capably performed by the Indiana-based Liberation Music Collective, a successor to Charlie Haden / Carla Bley's similarly high-minded Liberation Music Orchestra from the '70s and beyond. Interspersed among the nine musical selections are brief interviews with alto saxophonist Matthew Setzler, baritone Durand Jones, trumpeter Jess Henry and percussionist Julian Loida on topics ranging from religious tolerance and feminism to jazz mass, the benefits of unity and ...