Jazz Articles about Jacques Coursil

About Jacques Coursil

Album Review

Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live at Tompkins Square Park

Read "Live at Tompkins Square Park" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 10, 2026

Bassist Steve Tintweiss forged a career as a sideman to such avant-garde luminaries as tenor saxophonists Albert Ayler and Frank Wright and pianist Burton Greene. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he also led a few bands of rotating memberships. Several of these were recorded live at various venues. In the 2020s, Tintweiss started releasing these sessions on vinyl and CD on his own Inky Dot imprint. The captivating Live in Tompkins Square Park documents a 1967 set from ...

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Cook / Coursil / Gale / Robinson / Tintweiss: Ave B Free Jam

Read "Ave B Free Jam" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
April 3, 2022

A small story to motivate this review. Once upon a time, there was a scholar in a field of the humanities who wrote quite obscurely, even for the humanities, although his prose did not approach the glories of the postmodern. Most agreed that his writing was incomprehensible. It was sesquipedalian, if not totally obscure. In his defense, some would say that, ah, it is a case of poor translation into English, which is not his native language. But then it ...

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Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears

Read "Trails of Tears" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 31, 2011

Trumpeter, Jacques Coursil's Trails of Tears is quite simply, a monumental undertaking and a major work that ought to bring to light some of the earlier work that comments on colonialism in America, such as the equally important Gorée (Schemp, 1984), from Beaver Harris/Don Pullen 360˚ Experience; that composition itself being a strident dirge about the history of slavery in the western-most point of Africa, which was, at one time the centre of the slave trade. It was from Gorée ...

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Jacques Coursil: Clameurs

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 29, 2008

Difficile parlare di questo album in astratto, senza dare prima un'idea del percorso che ha portato l'autore Jacques Coursil a realizzare un lavoro così particolare e interessante. Nato a Parigi alla fine degli anni '30 da genitori martinicani, nel '65 si trasferisce a New York e collabora con Anthony Braxton, Sunny Murray, Alan Silva... Diventa figura di riferimento della tromba nel free jazz e pubblica due album a suo nome - Black Suite, e Way Ahead (con Braxton), ma nel ...

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Jacques Coursil

by A. Henkin
September 11, 2005

Since Henry Grimes' resurfacing, the bar has been raised for dramatic stories of life away from music. During the summer, trumpeter Jacques Coursil released a new record, his first since 1969. Was there a commensurate exciting story for his long sojourn away from music? Not really. Since an early age, music has just been one of many careers and interests Coursil has had. He only spent the last few decades receiving two Ph.D.'s and most recently completing a Visiting Professorship ...